The Edge of Heaven

6.5/10

This was an "okay" movie. I thought it was going to be fabulous, but it was just "meh".

I have to tell you about the experience though. I had free passes to an Alliance-Atlantis theatre. I brought my friend Karen. When we got into the theatre, it was totally empty. We chose a seat closer to the back of the theatre, in the middle. I don't like to sit in the centre of the theatre because people ALWAYS choose that area and I dislike sitting close to strangers if there is no reason to.

We chose our seats and I left to go to the bathroom. When I came back, there were 2 women sitting in the row EXACTLY behind us.

Picture this: 2000 empty seats. Karen and I in two of them. These two ladies RIGHT BEHIND US. The look on Karen's face when I returned was classic. It said "I want to punch them in the head."

So we got up, and moved 4 rows ahead of these women, which left 5 rows in between us.

AGAIN, no one else was in the theatre.

As we are chit-chatting, these women got up, and moved to the row behind us. I thought Karen was going to explode.

Okay, so let's dissect this. These women were not trying to piss us off - I'm pretty sure they were totally vacant up top. They were just ridiculously annoying. Middle aged, with English not being their mother tongue. I said to Karen: "if they talk through the movie I am going to go postal."

What did they do?

TALKED THROUGH THE FUCKING MOVIE.

I finally turned around after about 15 minutes and stared one of the women in the face with the hairiest eyeball that I could muster up. The talking eventually ceased. EVENTUALLY. They were clueless. CLUELESS.

When I go to movies on my own, I tend to choose the seats on the sides of the theatre. No one tends to sit there (which is wonderful). I don't hear incessant whispering and I don't get my seat kicked from behind. When I tend to go to movies with friends, I succomb to sitting in the middle to satisfy everyone. It never fails. I'm always annoyed in one way or another.

Somehow this post turned into a bitch/moan session. Back to the movie.

It was subtitled. The acting was decent. Storyline was nothing special.

I think my favourite part was when the credits were rolling. One of the characters was sitting on the beach with his back to the camera. The credits were rolling on the right hand side and he was just sitting there, looking out at the water. The whole scene was about 10 minutes. He didn't move, but you knew it wasn't being looped because tumbleweeds and other things were being blown around the beach. It was very different and therefore very neat.

So there you are. Unless you are a major movie buff, you probably don't need to see this movie. It got amazing reviews though.... so apparently I'm missing something.