My wife, my wife's cousin and I recently rented this movie - my recommendation, prompted by very good ratings both here and on Rottentomatoes. How surprised we were to find that it was a big soggy mass of treacly goo. It's sweet, but it's rather sickly and quite stupid. In case you think we are heartless 20-year-old slackers with a letch for gore, we are 65, 67 & 70 years of age, college-educated. I am still in the workplace, and my wife and her cousin are docents at a local museum, a volunteer position that requires both intelligence and aplomb. In case you think we have no standards of comparison, we agreed afterward that 'Rabbit-Proof Fence' and 'Whale Rider' both films about children in crisis, and both with about the same RT rating as 'Millions', were superior in every way. What madness gripped the minds of the film-critics of America, that they gave this manipulative piece of sanctimonious product-placement a high mark?
Review of Millions
