Quickie: 21 GRAMS (2003)

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21 Grams (2003)–**1/2
Quickie Review

A dying man receives a heart courtesy of a soccer mom’s dead husband who was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Fate brings together these three people looking for love, revenge, and redemption. Utterly intriguing for the first half, director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s sophomore film starts out like a puzzle but ends up like a paint-by-numbers drama. I suspect the film would have been tedious if it was told in a straightforward manner, but the film’s six-dimensional narrative only reveals the conclusion at the half-way point. Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benico Del Toro give strong performances, even if they are undercut by the disjointed narrative.