Forest Whitaker,
Brendan Fraser,
Sarah Michelle Gellar,
Kevin Bacon,
Andy Garcia
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Four stories, representing the emotional principles of love, pleasure, sorrow, and happiness, come together in this episodic drama from first-time director Jieho Lee. A powerful crime boss, Fingers (A... read more
Directed by: Jieho Lee
Release Date: January 25, 2008
DVD Release Date: May 6, 2008
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July 31, 2011Yet another done-to-death, serendipitous, connecting-the-dots kind of movie. Only reason I walked into this one is because of the names Kevin Bacon and Julie Delpy in the cast sheet, and their bit parts were over within the blink of an eye.
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January 13, 2011a strong cast and the lead characters all portray an emotion......
The four chapters are titled Happiness, Pleasure, Sorrow, and Love, each has a main character known only by the chapters title....
happiness (Forest Whitaker) a down on his luck man who attempts to find hap... read more -
October 20, 2010Interesting... no, really. It was kinda of Crash-y but more violent. And I really liked the end. Wish that the Love (Kevin Bacon) story line had more oomph to it, but I think in these fractional tales, one story line usually gets a little shafted.
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August 12, 2010IMO, it's just another movie blending several stories into one film. Despite of blending of several stories & a bit non-linear timeline, it's pretty easy to follow. However, the movie, in part as well as in whole, wasn't engaging enough. Hardly any story was captivating. Great pe... read more
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July 20, 2010Cast: Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Andy Garcia, Taylor Nichols, Forest Whitaker, Clark Gregg, Emile Hirsch, Julie Delpy, John Cho, Jason Dolley, Kelly Hu
Director: Jieho Lee
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November 2, 2009A directorial debut by an American-Korean filmmaker. Good cast and stellar performances by all characters. The story isnt hard to follow but I think most of the concept was lost with how the film was directed, still... I liked it, the films got a different taste to it.
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July 21, 2009ive seen a few films where its a bunch of strangers all connected to one guy and i must say this is my favourite altough a really strong cast you didnt hear much about it on the cinemas or anything but it was really good and interesting! sarah michelle gellar plays a singer whose... read more
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July 15, 2009Electric and brilliant action-filled drama about four very different people teetering on the edge of desperation are unexpectedly linked by their destinies. I like Sorrow (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Pleasure (Brendan Fraser) and Love (Kevin Bacon) scenes the best as well as the soli... read more
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April 25, 2009fb619846742An utter catastrophe. The cast is fine, they do what they can with their boring characters and a script that is built completely around fake coincidences and cheesy melodrama, but it comes to no avail. Some of the "dramatic" material is unintentionally hilarious, I found myself m... read more
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April 3, 2009When a film's main premises are: a) Brendan Fraser being a psychic badass, b) Andy Garcia being anywhere in the film, and c) relying on Sarah Michelle Gellar's "acting talent" you know you're gonna shoot yourself in the foot before pre-production even begins. It tries too hard to... read more
Critic Reviews
January 25, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
January 25, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Brendan Fraser is Pleasure, Sarah Michelle Gellar is Sorrow, Kevin Bacon is Love, Forest Whitaker is Happiness, and the director is Pretension. Full Review
January 25, 2008
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
I can't fault any of the actors for anything other than bad judgment. Their performances are fine, but a good fortune cookie might have told them to stay away from this. Full Review
January 25, 2008
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
A stew of cheap irony, ponderous but meaningless allegory, violence and pretension, the movie is all borrowed style and calculated pandering. It does, however, get more ludicrous by the minute. So in ... Full Review
January 24, 2008
Gene Seymour, Newsday
With any luck, The Air I Breathe should be the last gasp of the faux-Altmanesque school of serendipitous storytelling. Full Review
January 16, 2008
Rex Reed, New York Observer
For rock-bottom nasty, with no social relevance, there is The Air I Breathe, a load of amateurish bilge so silly I thought I was watching a screening at Comedy Central. Full Review
January 4, 2012
Matthew Pejkovic, Matt's Movie Reviews
Pretentious in its tone, ambitious in its goals, and incompetent in its execution, The Air I Breathe is a polluted mess despite its good intentions. Full Review
June 12, 2008
Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film
As the plot strands begin to coalesce everything becomes far too overwrought. Full Review
February 28, 2008
J.B. Mitchell, Orlando Weekly
The movie takes itself way too seriously, and it doesn't add up to much, but, nevertheless, it's borderline entertaining. Full Review
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