Rating of
1.5/4
Flat on it's face failure
Matthew Brady - wrote on 01/13/15
They should re-name the title of this movie like "Hector and the Search for a better movie".
The story is about a London psychiatrist is in a funk - finding himself as unahppy as some of his patients. He decides on a radical course of action - to leave his sheltered life behind and travel the globe in search of the one thing missing from his life: happiness.
Okay just by judging on the critics score for this film (So far, it might charge later on in the future) 3.5% on RT and on Metacritic it has a 2.9% out of 100. Yeah I could already guess that this movie was going to suck. And after seeing the film I had no idea how bad it really was. Hector and the Search for Happiness is one of those films that feels like a boring and bad day at work for me. I'm also so surprise by the big name actors that actually agreed to be in this movie, I mean why? .
The movie jumps to different locations around the world because of the main character (Hector) which he is search for what really makes people happy. Yeah these Google, Wiki, Youtube, all those web sites that can bring the answer straight to you, because these always people on the damn internet always sharing they feelings. It really isn't all that hard really, yeah you can make the point that he wanted to meet the people in person to know what makes them happy, but I'm only naming out the simple things.
Hector has a character well he's pretty charming and not at all boring, and Simon Pegg dose good in the role. But I didn't think his character wasn't anything special to be honest, he was just the adventure, full of curiosity, and that's it for his character, has I said nothing really that much to talk about with him. Also Rosamund Pike did good as well in her role.
The movie itself feels really bloated and uninspiring to watch. The friends that Hector meet are not all that interesting and kind of forgettable, and I think the blame is from the directing and writing in this movie. This movie isn't really written that well and the directing feels kind of off and a bit lazy with these rush location jumps.
Overall Hector and the Search for happiness is a bland, uninspiring, falls flat on it's face movie that could have been great but wasn't.
