Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Rebel Without A Cause (1958)

Am I the only person who doesn't like Rebel Without A Cause? I just don't understand why people think its great. The acting is fair... nothing truly exceptional. The story is fairly straightforward... its all pretty ordinary. Not overly good or bad to any measure.

One of the things I find distracting is the way the Jim character starts out - we see him drunk and stumbling around. That's fair enough. But it seems that he stays that way through the whole thing. Either he forgets booze wears off, or the character is mentally unstable. Either way, its just not that interesting.

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