Bug (2002)
Starring: Brian Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Paulson
Rating: 5.5/10
Review written by: Josh Bozeman (jboze3131@hotmail.com)
on: April 7, 2004 @ 4:45 AM CT.
I just watched the movie, BUG...and I wrote
a small review for imdb.com. I will just fill in some details in
regards to the plot (or the review won't make much sense- it
won't make much sense even after I describe the plot a bit.)
Anyhow...it's a film about a number of different characters who
don't know each other, but all of their lives are connected by
certain events. It all starts with a little boy stomping on a big
bug and some guy running up to tell him he just killed a living
thing...
We meet other characters, and their actions affect yet more
characters who come into play. A guy throws a fortune cookie at a
character, it goes out the window, lands on the sidewalk at the
feet of another character- he opens it, and reads the message:
"you'll meet the girl of your dreams," right as a woman
is running down the sidewalk in front of him, trying to catch
oranges that have fallen out of her grocery bag...he talks to
her, she's not interested, he works for the cable company, the
cable goes out because another character is tired at work (because
he was up all night looking for his girlfriend's cat, a cat who
was killed by another character) and drops a jackhammer on the
cable line...which leads to the grocery girl who isn't interested
in the guy calling about her cable outage, and that guy
recognizing her voice...and she uses him to see the fight on HBO,
because he's the only person she knows with cable. Make sense?
Didn't think so...it's fairly easy to follow if you see the film,
and I liked it in general...but it was lacking something in a big
way. It was enjoyable for the first hour, and the last half hour
I was watching the clock, wondering when things would finally
resolve themselves.
So, there's a bit about the plot...and, here is the
review:
I won't go over the details of the plot, since other's have
mentioned them, and you can read them in the summary...
The supposed wonderful things that happen in this movie, due to
the actions of others aren't all that wonderful. The stories
contained in the film are just not exciting. I found the idea
clever for a while, but it wore thin and started to get annoying
after about an hour.
What's so great about these random acts? One guy is going for
some girl who doesn't like him...another man is slowly losing his
mind and is obsessed about germs, a couple- well, they actually
turn out fairly well...the one guy loses his girlfriend and
nothing else good happens to him. The trailer, which I only
watched after the film, made it seem as tho wonderful things were
happening to all these people, all caused by the small acts of
others around them.
The fact is- there's nothing big happening to any of them...and
these small, random acts don't lead to life changing events.
Well, that's not exactly true...but, overall, no one learned some
huge lesson, no one changed their entire personality. Nothing
like that.
This is a hard movie to criticize, as it is a hard movie to
explain to someone who hasn't seen it. It was just missing
something for me. Sure, events around us affect our lives- this
isn't a newsflash...but, I was just hoping for bigger things in
the end- not a bunch of people loosely connected to one another
going to Hawaii.