I was up at 7am, finished watching Scent of a Woman, and went back to sleep. SoaW was decent, quite good at times, and then terribly banal and corny at other times. It wasn't good corny either, as the movie attempted to have a very serious undertone, leaning towards a realism of sorts, and then counterpunched with cliche-ridden pabulum. No thanks to the latter. Pacino was brilliant most of the time, but Chris O'Donnell seems a little too suited for passive obeisance, which created a sort of vacuum. It wasn't believable the way that he found a way to stave off Pacino's bender and the speech given at the gathering at the end was greatly written but seem out of place with the rest of the movie, and further made it unbelievable. Overall score: 6/10.
On to the next film. :)
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