GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

david-sarkies The title of this movie intrigued me somehow and so I hired it. I thought it was funny and I am glad that I did hire it because I did quite enjoy it. The humour was actually quite decent humour and not the typical try-hard humour that most romantic comedies, as this is what A Life Less Ordinary is, tend to display.Now heaven is getting quite upset at the number of relationships that are falling apart so two angels are sent to Earth to bring two people together and if they don't then they cannot return. The two people are completely the opposite, which is typically American, and so the angels see it is basically an impossible task. One of them is a dreamer who works as a cleaner and wants to write trashy novels, while the other is the rich daughter of the guy's employer. The guy is sacked from his job and replaced with robots and then he looses his current girlfriend and is kicked out of home due to unpaid rent. He then, in frustration, barges into his bosses office with a gun and demands his job back.The daughter is simply lazy and a crack shot. A dentist wants to marry her but she is not interested so she decides to test him by shooting an apple off the top of his head. He moves and is hit in the head. She is then brought to her father and is told that she now has to work for his money. Now, she is in the office when he bursts in and he ends up kidnapping her, but it turns out that she knows more about kidnapping than he does so decides to teach him a few lessons.Well, this is how the movie turns out. Of course it is predictable as a romantic comedy as it is not a movie where both parties end up dead, as they do in Romeo and Juliet. In fact, Shakespeare actually wrote a lot of decent romantic comedies, but they are intelligent, unlike the garbage that is churned out of Hollywood these days. A Life Less Ordinary is not one of those garbage movies, though it doesn't really rise to the heights of a Shakespearian comedy.My really only complaint with the movie is how it deals with heaven. Basically God is not in control and sits away from everything letting the world run itself. Occasionally he sticks his hand in to make things run a little smoother but generally he doesn't care. Also, there is the idea that the rich go to heaven and the poor go to hell and there is no way out of that. Really that is just absolute garbage and shows how people seriously don't understand the way God operates. God doesn't judge us on wealth or on how good we've been. Rather he judges us on who we have given our life to. If we have told God to get lost then that is it, we don't want him then he doesn't want us. But if we ask God to be on our side, then he will take us as a friend and welcome us into eternity.

Chris L If the name of Danny Boyle is often synonym of success, the Englishman is also capable of directing more than mediocre movies such as this A Life Less Ordinary.It relies on a qualitatively low script. Everything is convenient, cliché, the plot unfolds really too linearly and is in the end little interesting. The fantastic touch, more boring than anything, doesn't help either.The Diaz-McGregor works difficultly and struggles to extricate itself from this mess where characters and situations are stereotyped.Even the direction is uninspired, not to mention the soundtrack that is almost ridiculous, which is a shame when speaking of Boyle.It is maybe the worst feature of the director, along with Millions, both movies sharing as a matter of fact the same mystical tone.

mountart a life less ordinary is one of those movies that just misses the mark.... which is a shame, because it has the potential to be a really good movie.first, the fantasy sequences are not needed, they fall flat, just aren't done well and don't add anything to the movie. the director could learn a lesson from the coehn brothers on how to successfully use fantasy sequences.the whole angel premise is also not needed and just seems really contrived and just gets in the way and muddles everything up.cameron diaz and ewan mcgregor's performances and chemistry are excellent, as are the rest of the performances from the eccentric secondary cast.the scene play is way too all over the place and does not keep you on the edge of your seat, instead i found my mind wandering, thinking to myself, what a job the coehn brothers could have done with this material and actors.oh well, nice try, but i can't recommend this movie other then for the performances of the actors.

Framescourer If Trainspotting was Danny Boyle's Pulp Fiction, then A Life Less Ordinary is his True Romance. A pulpy road movie with all sorts of strange quirks which are so odd (and random) that they might be ascribed to some sort of century-end magic realism... were it not for Boyle's ever-present sense of humour.There's some serious money behind this film. McGregor is yet to hit the gargantuan time but Cameron Diaz is a big enough draw - or perhaps bank draft - alone, without the considerable talent of Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter playing the pursuers. What I like most about this film, strangely enough, is the uncompromising art design. It's a vibrant, colourful film but it's not gaudy, so one doesn't have to pop Ritalin in order to see it. The script sometimes goes with the humour's whimsy but I think that's made up for in élan. 6/10