Movie Reviews of Eat Pray Love
- This movie review is for the new release "Eat Pray Love." Julia Roberts stars in every single frame of the movie as Liz, a New Yorker who has suffered a recent divorce. She is unhappy in her life and decides to go on a year long adventure to figure out what she wants from life. First she goes to Italy and learns that close friends can become your family. Then she goes to India where she learns about quiet meditation and prayer. In Bali, she is spontaneous and goes out with a man who nearly ran her over. She grows to love him and the movie ends with them literally riding off into the sunset in his boat. All in all, a wonderful movie.
- Eat, Pray, Love (2010)
Eat, Pray, Love is a movie based on the 2006 Elizabeth Gilbert novel Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. Eat, Pray, Love is directed by Ryan Murphy and stars Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup and Richard Jenkins.
Eat, Pray, Love offered a stunning visual tour of Italy, India and Indonesia. The camera work and cinematography were stunning and the acting was very well executed. I was less impressed with the script.
The premise of the film is that Julia Robert’s character, trapped in an unhappy and unfullfilling marriage, obtains a divorce and travels the world in search of her true self and the meaning of her life. The movie is well intended, but the script doesn’t flow and leaves many questions unanswered. The main question I had was why in the world this woman would want to leave her husband? He was portrayed as handsome, attentive, funny, caring and a little quirky in his inability to stick to a career. It’s hard to watch this movie about a woman escaping her suffocating life when her life seemed pretty darn good.
I was also unimpressed with Javier Bardem’s character. He was handsome, but he also came across as a little too sensitive, a bit insincere and really fake. His character was too perfect to be true and a bit sappy to boot.
In my opinion, Billy Crudup stole the movie even though he was in very few scenes. His heartfelt and funny character was so good that he left the rest of the movie unbelievable. I think if Billy Crudup and Javier Bardem had switched roles, I would have found myself intrigued as to how this woman found the man of her dreams while searching for herself.
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