Rating of
2/4
You'll die playing the drinking game 'Aloha' here.
Indyfreak - wrote on 09/18/15
This is nowhere near as bad as Rotten Tomatoes would have you believe but given the cast involved it should have at least been memorable. Granted, it's not without its charming moments and the actors are certainly trying to make themselves endearing to the the audience. Most succeed like Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone. It's next to impossible to hate either of these actors. But the script is just too busy with so many stories going on at the same time yet nothing seems resolved properly aside from the absurd subplot dealing with a shady industrialist (played by Bill Murray who acts like he's in a different movie). The nasty underlying sense of nativism leaves a bad taste in your mouth but what really becomes insulting is the insinuation of exploitation by big business and the military - in a film set in a U.S. state heavily reliant on commercial enterprise and tourism aside from defense contracts. As sentimental as the movie tries to be, it cannot hide this hypocrisy.
