A great idea for a movie, a good concept - totally ruined and wasted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwas
Ian McKellen completely wasted in this stupid pathetic movie.
Aaron Eckhart? Well he has done some great movies - but I guess he accepted scripts hoping to make it to the very big league and didn't really pay attention to what shite he was putting his name to.
Is it a wonder the movie went straight to DVD and never was released in cinema halls?
I am not at all surprised.
The concept: A brilliant psychiatrist returns to a hospital where once his father was admitted for schizophrenia. His father had written one super great children's book about a kid finding justice for his banished father who is the King of a great kingdom.
This fantasy of the children's book is to blend with the work of the psychiatrist in this mental hospital.
The reality: A stupid bullshite movie full of cliched crappy characters and worse scenes and pathetic unconvincing acting.
I sympathise with the actors - they had nothing to work with in the first place - poorest of script and worse direction.
Everything looks so lame - and the way these patients are presented and the 2 leading actors/characters - the father/son - King/saviour - is totally pathetic and stupid.
Other wasted talent include Nick Nolte and Brittany Murphy.
It was neither a commercially nor critically acceptable movie.
There is complete lack of concern for the subject of mental illness and how such patients are to be portrayed. No insight into any characters nor the medical condition nor why the damn book is important to anyone.
There is so much that could have been done with that concept.
There are so many innovative ways mental illness has been blended into a great movie:
* Girl Interrupted
* Instinct
* One flew over the cuckoo's nest
* A beautiful mind
I would say even a film like Dark Knight with Heath Ledger as Joker is a better use of mental illness in a movie's primary storyline. And Aaron was great as the TwoFace villain another mentally affected guy in that movie.
Waste of time and producer's resources.
The film's name is ironical for the idiots who ruined this project.
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