Magnolia (DVD 2000)

Technically magnolia is a terrible film. I say this because really magnolia has no storyline ,point or proper ending!.......if you're turned off already don't be! Allthough there are these flaws, magnolia, nonetheless is very entertaining and unpredictable. There are around 10 main characters but unlike in ensemble films like crash , pulp fiction and intermission they are linked together by the thinnest of threads.

Everyone plays their parts really well except for Julianne Moore who even though has an interesting character plays it very 1 dimensional. I was also dissapointed by William H Macy (playing a loser of course!)portrayal of 'whizz kid Donnie Smith' - a man who was a childhood genius and now who's lost it all. Macy wasn't bad but was nowhere as good as he was in Fargo.
Jason Robards , Phillip Baker Hall and Phillip Seymour Hoffman (recently the winner of best actor oscar) all deliver excellent performances but undoubtedly the stars of the show are Tom Cruise as the oscar nominated, fast talking sex guru and John C Reilly as a good cop. Cruise started to shed his 1dimensional performances as the 'hotshot' in this movie and has gone to show us in Minority Report and The Last Of The Samurai that he can act. As for John C Reilly, he is probably the most underrated character actors of all time and although rarely the leading man, gives excellent performances in everything he's in.

Magnolia mightn't be for everyone but you should probably see it just to have an oppinion