All I Want (2002)

Where's the plot?

I bought this film from my work, despite never having previously heard of it, and going purely by the blurb. It grabbed my attention for some reason, so I bought it.

Big mistake.

I'm shocked to read other reviews giving it the maximum amount of stars. Did we see a different film? Cos it's absolutely dire. There's absolutely no plot, it's just a series of disjointed scenes, making no sense, and just plodding along. Nothing could save this film, not even the actors. Franka Potente has an accent that appears and disappears throughout the movie, Elijah Wood is really starting to look like Daniel Radcliffe's older brother and Mandy Moore doesn't sing. For once. Debbie Harry appears only briefly, looking like a relative of Dolly Parton. Then there's the dream sequences. I won't even go there. How pointless could you be?!

Then the was the whole mother/son relationship. Surely she could have had the decency to tell him more about his estranged father? Surely she could see the character was messed up because there was no father figure in his life? He's writing letters to his father telling him about everything, simply because he has an old typewriter of his father's, and he wants to be a writer, because his father wrote.

I hung about for all of the whole of the film, but never really giving it my full attention, thinking it was going somewhere, and playing Solitaire on my phone at one point! I seriously considered turning it off a number of times, and watching something relatively decent. But no, I thought it would get better. Don't buy this movie, don't watch this movie, don't even think about borrowing it. You'll never get this time back.

Now what do I do with it? March 25, 2007

Worth watching again, and again!

I cannot belive I used to think this was not worth watching! "Try Seventeen" (aka. "All I Want") is one of the best drama/romantic comedies I have seen.

Every time I see it again I discover something new. There is always something special, a little twist, a reaction-- Always something new to discover, and always some reaction that is played so well you barely notice it. Worth watching again, and again. And entertaining every time! March 14, 2007

Uhhh...

Ok, I took my chances on buying this movie without seeing it first because I am an Elijah Wood fan and was interested to see him in a role that's not Frodo. He played off his awkward character quite well, but it was almost painful to watch because I was embarrassed for the kid. Actually, most of the characters were awkward. Maybe that was the intention, but there were some VERY strange moments that I didn't expect. I just expected more from the movie, and after watching it, it seemed empty. July 25, 2006

Frodo finally gets some

This is a pretty poor romantic comedy/coming of age film, with all the conventions that you would expect: broken home, overly sensitive boy, wise older woman friend, rampant fantasies, etc etc. I really didn't find anything about it very interesting, with the exception of how his relationship with his mom evolves. But the silliness and frivolous ticks throughout the film never worked for me. All in all, I felt like it was a waste of time.

Not recommended. May 31, 2006

Cool

I loved this movie. I really don't know why. I just saw it and all my friends thought it was stupid but I liked it. This was a movie about love that just kinda played with your mind. The end of the movie left a lot of questions to be asked but I like movies like that. All and all the story was good and the acting was ok (they could have gotten better actors but hey no movie is perfect.) March 8, 2005

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