Tetro

This film has been given relatively positive reviews from the top critics for its visual effects (which aren't that great) and emotionally driven overtones but I try not to write reviews for the critic-types but more for the average moviegoer. So here it goes...

Tetro is a story about 2 estranged brothers, Bennie & Angelo (aka Tetro), who have a rather interesting past and family dynamic. Most of the movie digs deeply into the past of Tetro and the events that led to the eventual schism between him, his father and his brother. The tie that brings the two brothers together is an unpublished, and quite accomplished play, that Tetro wrote years back which his snooping brother rewrites and releases as an onstage play. If you can make it all the way to the last 10 minutes for the major plot twist congratulations, I dozed off a couple times.

The only way I could recommend this movie is if you love low budget, highly dramatic, and boring films. This is not the best work of renowned director, Francis Ford Coppola and gets a dismal D--.