Eat Pray Love 1/5

I'm going to get flak for this.....

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Eat, Pray, Love was adapted from a memoir of Elizabeth Gilbeth. Lizz(Julia Robert) is woman who have it all: nice job, money, and a lovely husband. Yet she still feels empty. The film chronicle her life from divorce and go along Lizz's journey to discover herself from Italy to India and end up with love in Bali.

Sound promising, isn't it?

Well yeah, I admit that they have quite a good cast. Julia Robert is a likable actor and Javier Bardem is good on most movie that he's in. The scenery and camera work are also quite good. But there is one big problem.

The protagonist is unlikable.

Now, I understand that there are many people who suffer a lot of trouble that Lizz has. But for me she's pretty selfish, stubborn, and impossible to satisfy from the beginning. At start, she divorce her husband(Billy Crudup) for reason that he was boring blabbing husband. It's only get worst from that point on because of bad screenplay. The dialog are bland and transition between each scenes are very abrupt. I think understand her a bit but I don't feel any empathy on her at all.

In fact, 'EMPTY' is the word that summarize my feeling about this movie. It might be better if this is make as a miniseries where we can have time to absorb on character thought. But the bad screenplay and trashy dialog from hipster wannabe make the film dry and tasteless.

Do not waste your time with this movie. Just go out and do something. Eat at some good restaurant. Hang out with friend. Do some yoga. Join meditation class. Time is too precious and you should not spend 140 minutes of your life with this piece of eye candy garbage.

1/5 for scenery and shot of yummy spaghetti. I couldn't rate more for Julia Robert's free travel ticket.