A Beginner’s Guide to Endings
A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is comedy drama movie released in 2010. This movie is written and directed by Jonathan Sobol and produced by Nicolas Tabarrok and John Kozma. The major roles of this movie are played by Scott Caan, J.K. Simmons, Harvey Keitel, Paulo Costanzo, Jason Jones and Tricia Helfer.
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Plot:
The movie starts with a man telling us about his life and then he tries to commit suicide but fails. He takes another attempt and meanwhile, introduces us with his children, five boys. The eldest one is a boxer, who couldn’t manage a successful career for himself. The second one is playboy. The third son is so far the most successful one, smart and organized. We don’t get to know much about the forth one, but he is trying to be a boxer like his eldest brother. The last one is an Asian and still a kid. The old man says that 5 of his sons are from 3 of his wives. He regrets for the life he lived and says he has failed as a father. Because of being frustrated for this, he seeks to end his life.
Then we see his sons gathered for his funeral. But as he jumped off the Niagara falls and his body has not been found, so the funeral was going on without his dead body. At the funeral, his sons start fighting with each other for silly reasons.
After the funeral, his sons and the priest goes to a local club. The priest was a very good friend of the old man and also of his sons. The priest reads his will. The man has left some small things for each of his sons and has also left his house to them. Then there is another letter which states, when his first 3 sons were little, in exchange of a huge amount of money, he has used them in a drug experiment. As a result, soon the 3 of them will die.
The 3 brothers become frustrated. The third son sees a doctor, who also says that he is going to die soon. When they get sure about it, they start to correct the mistakes they have done all their life.
The eldest one, the boxer, goes to the nearby gym, where he has set a fight for the fourth brother. Seeing the opponent in practice, he realizes that his brother is no fit for his opponent. Feeling the danger for his brother of getting killed, he tries to avoid the fight but the fixer demands $20,000 for cancelling the game. He then starts to seek the money.
The second brother, the playboy, feels that he needs to settle down with someone. Opposing everyone else’s opinion, he heads for his high school crush, who seemed a pretty dangerous lady to marry. He spends some times with that lady and at one point, she puts him face to face with her boyfriend, who had cases against him for assaulting people. The outlaw boyfriend tries to kill him, but also says, he will get the girl if the brother can defeat him.
The third brother, the smart one, living a controlled life till now, starts to seek for adventure. Putting on a costume of Elvis Presley, he quits his job, talks with the girl which he always has hesitated and slaps his manager. He maintains a list of things to do before he dies. The last thing of his list is to get inside a barrel and then jump of Niagara falls, which he attempts.
Meanwhile, the eldest brother, failing to get $20000, decides to fight the boxing match himself instead to his young brother, to save his brother’s life. But from the priest, he learns why he can’t fight and why the same fate has happened to him in every match he has fought. He also learns that, even living a reckless life, how their father loved them.
The last part of the movie is about the three brothers’ dangerous attempts and about the last days of their life, or is it?
My review about this movie:
First of all, I didn’t like this movie much.
The plot is not bad, but its predictable. If you have watched enough movies, you will know what will happen at the end, in one way or another. The ending felt too dramatic for me. And also, this movie had the probation to include much more comedy and suspense elements in this movie, but the director didn’t do it. It could make this movie much better.
The acting and the dialogues are goods. The casting also felt good. The character development of this movie is very bad. Usually I don’t write much about character developments, but in A Beginner’s Guide to Endings, I specially felt it being very poor.
Although this is a comedy movie, but the comedy elements were also very poor, and I didn’t find any scene at all which could make us laugh. But still, the whole movie doesn’t go maintaining a pure serious tone. To me, this movie is oddly stuck somewhere between being funny and being serious.
There is no nude scene in this movie but it has some regular ‘bad words’. I feel its safe to watch it with kids.
So, finally, I didn’t enjoy this movie. Although its not that kind that will make you feel your time got wasted, but to me, its not something to love. I won’t recommend watching A Beginner’s Guide to Endings to other movie lovers.
Do you share the same views with me about this movie or the opposite? Let me know your comments.
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