Rating of
1.5/4
2013 saw nothing as overrated as "Her"
Indyfreak - wrote on 09/05/14
For every thoughtful observation about love, romance, etc. in the script there is far more useless vulgarity masquerading as humor and a surprising amount of hard-edged cynicism for a film being touted as sincere and heartfelt. This was a major disappointment. That being said, Joaquin Phoenix devotes himself thoroughly into the role of Theodore while Scarlett Johannson strikes the right notes with her performance. Rooney Mara, Amy Adams, and Olivia Wilde are given the thankless tasks of presenting Phoenix's character with alternative relationships which the film implicitly implies to be not up to the standards of the one he forms with "Her". There I made a slightly witty joke with the title after all. And I thought I was not going to be able to do so in the first place.
