Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

zif ofoz ..... the acting is excellent. But the plot loses direction about three quarters of the way through.Four different people with four different stories. At some point I thought these individual stories would all connect somehow. Not so.What we see is a man who lost his faith in God, an ex-con who just wants to do a nice thing, a transvestite, a stripper, a puppeteer who runs a failing funeral home, and a very ill child.Two of these people eventually get together but in the process three people die and one man just seems to go off mentally.To watch this movie you have to want to see what will happen to each person but the process is slow and involved.

craig-munson The overall story and characters in this movie were fantastic and I would highly recommend this to anyone. I am very surprised this movie seemed to slip through the cracks and not get the attention it deserved.Ray liota and Forrest Whitaker are a given to provide great performances. But I was shocked by how good Jessica Biel was in this movie. Always thought she was a below average actress but she blew me away in this film. She also blew me away with how hot and sexy she is.... I could watch her Strip tease act over and over again (which by the way I have done and seen it probably 15x). My god how I would like to be Justin Timberlake for one day!! Great Film.... Go buy it as its definitely worth the money

Rodrigo Amaro Multi-plot, hyper linked or mosaic films (as it is called here), whatever, I really love films like these specially when well made and with relevant things to show and tell. "Powder Blue" successfully is one of those since it has an good cast, a good story and memorable moments. Just fails a little in developing some of the moments, what can make of this film at times unbearably cheesy.Here we follow the days in the lives of an dying man (Ray Liotta) trying to connect with the daughter he never met after serving 20 years in jail; the girl (Jessica Biel) is an exotic dancer with financial problems and needs money to pay the medical bills of her comatose son; an suicide guy (Forest Whitaker) who can't cope with life anymore after his wife's death, but lacks courage to him pull the trigger and end with his life so he keeps finding someone who'll do that in exchange for money; and a young mortician (Eddie Redmayne) with lots of problems not only financial ones, almost going to bankruptcy, but also in dealing with girls. The story goes on with these characters who stumble upon each other trying to set their lives in a good way.Sure, "Powder Blue" is involving and has some relevance but it almost gets stuck in a enormous pack of predictable moments that is so obvious this character is going to meet that character that some viewers will find it a dull film. It's not dull, it just goes in ways it didn't need to go to such as the scene where Biel sexually offers herself to her son's doctor (so, so bad). Other times it almost achieves a sense of greatness with its sequences but when you have a film storage in the head like I do, you get the feeling that some elements would work in other film or they were taken from another film which doesn't make you say "It's taken from that film". Rather than that you'll say it's a copy! Example: the 1-2-3 hug scene is clearly an cheap reference to the great "Magnolia" (the kiss between Melora Walters and John C. Reilly), even the editing style is similar with the camera giving a zoom during the hug! It just lack some identity of its own.It is a beautiful picture, I loved its themes of giving second chances (or first at times) and loved the characters, all of them were interesting (Redmayne was my favorite even though the script said that the answer for his problems was to get involved with someone in similar conditions as he, with no money at all, and his change of profession wasn't all that cleared). The grandiosity of "Powder Blue" lies within these poor figures and if a movie gives, even if a small time, enough things to make you care about them, then you'll succeed it in making a film that is closer to life and relevant to it. Aside the problems it has, it's a good suggestion indeed. 8/10

kosmasp Life as we know it ... well not exactly as we know it, but then again characters and a story we can get behind. Or at least feel with the "players" (if you consider life a game that is). And while there have been quite a few movies that do use the cross time lines and different characters, that might or might not have a common goal or something else in common, this is a very nice tryout too.Just don't watch it for one scene involving Jessica Biel. If your sole purpose is to watch that scene, do not bother with the rest and fast forward to that scene and get it over with. Because you wouldn't care for the build-up and the character moments anyway. Of course they are important, but also put that scene into a perspective that some viewer might not like ...Having said that, if Drama is your cup of tea, you will watch it either way. Not "Crash", but still solid