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Shame on people who gave this movie good reviews. I went to see it based on your comments. "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me." This movie could have been so much better if the director had not included so many meandering courtroom scenes that served no purpose to explain or add to the plot. There were of course, too many clichéd visual tricks which got old fast, and after the obligatory, but generally good, horror shots ran their course, the audience became bored and fidgety. And why the judge's character got so much scene time is beyond me.

A basic flaw was that the many subplots were too shallow and vague (what's with Linney's boss being so threatening?) that left us expecting more. The priest was certainly a pivotal character, and yet he was mostly presented as a sweaty, nervous stutterer, acting more like a guilty child molester than a man of the cloth firm in his beliefs. Too bad the aspect of Shoreh Agdashloo's appearance was left so unsatisfying as well. The entire premise of her character as the expert on possession could have explained a lot about Linney's legal approach, and to be sure, if the director had used her more as an expert witness, the audience would have also been more on the priest's side, feeling more satisfied in Emily's demonic possession versus the epilepsy theory. It was such a major scene, such a major turn of events in the film to hear Agdashloo's testimony, and yet nothing really came of it. But then, everything in this movie left you waiting for more. Also, as someone already mentioned, the car accident was the most asinine ever.

There were just too many duplicated scenes in the courtroom and the lawyer waking up every night at the same time or looking glumly into her martini (we got it, we don't need to see it a hundred times). The movie basically just dragged you into a stupor. The priest kept saying, "I want to tell Emily's story", but the irony is that the movie, nor the priest, never really did.

What a nice movie! If you do not know who Richard Feynman was, then this is a great way to be introduced. He was a brilliant, eccentric, witty scientist who came of age during the 1930s and 1940s. This movie doesn't show his entire life, just the parts that lead up to his involvement with the atomic bomb and the Manhattan Project during WWII. It's based on his books called 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?' and 'Surely You're Joking. Mr. Feynman!' The Movie doesn't deal with his actual scientific work so much as his unconventional approach to it. It also deals with his first marriage to Arline, who was very ill with systemic tuberculosis. The movie takes you from his childhood and university years to his marriage and time at the famous Los Alamos Lab. I think I liked this movie because it doesn't come out and tell you what to think, it just shows snippets of his life and how he overcomes the sad times with humor and grace. I can't say enough about this film. It's that good.