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Virginia Reviews
This movies climax is just insane and filled with bizarre scenes from Connelly wearing a gorilla mask robbing a bank in high heels to a paper bagged hostage mormon. Everything else is just subpar about it. The cinematography isn't well done and really feels very amateurish on top of just bizarre scenes. he worst part about this is it never really ties the 3 main story lines together. The coming of age, affair, and melodrama never comes together in a cohseive way and jumps around terribly at times as these character never really share much screen time together. It's very hard to tell you what the central message or focus is of these stories or believe them because it just isn't executed that well either. Connelly is alright and has her moments but every else is ok enough perfromance wise but the characters make some dumb and hard to understand choices that weigh it down. No one really has much chemsitry. The music also just is playing feels like it's the same track over and over low key in the back and isn't good. Skip This.
It's always difficult to portray mental illness but the mixture of comedy and violence in this movie totally confused the issue
Virginia is kind of all over the place that doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. But Jennifer Connelly is so good here, so it was worth watching, I guess.
Canned A Little Harshly By Critics, I Did Not Think This Was Too Terrible. The Two Leads Do Well &'A Rag-Tag Array Of Minor Roles Keep It Interesting. I Drifted Along With The Story, Not Fighting To Find A Deeper Meaning, It Gad Similarities To Other Quirky Films, Which Are Probably Better Examples, But As I Said, This Isn't Too Bad.
A bizarre movie that is hardly entertaining, it's mostly just really awkward, There was potential with the concept here, but unfortunately it is just a big mess that is neither effective with its humor or dramatic elements.
Jennifer Connely is "Virginia", a southern single mom mixed up in an affair with a local sheriff, "Dick", played by Ed Harris. Dick wants to be senator, but his on again off again fling with Virginia, threatens to destroy that. Furthermore, Dick and Virginia's son, so and so, played by "someone", has the hots for Dick's daughter, which pisses Dick off since he thinks it goes against the natural order of things, which it does, but "someone" doesn't realize that. He thinks Dick is not his father. The story rolls along and Virginia's behavior, odd as it is, compounded by her schizophrenia, escalates, turning the whole town upside down.
The wonderful performance by Jennifer Connelly could not lift this depressing tale of mental illness and small-town politics.
"A strong cast can't save "Virginia," Dustin Lance Black's film about a schizophrenic mom in a small Virginia beach town."
this was the weirdest movie.
2/5 --- Another mess of plot and characters...I'm not sure if writers/directors thinks this is smart to have depressed characters with no real idea of what the focus/point of the movie is??!! I like depressing movies with meaning :D Not sure what happened to Jennifer Connelly's career...but the last 10 films of hers have been rotten, yikes! She needs a comeback. She is a great actress, and even in this almost-bad movie, she is the one holding it up with her psychotic character Virginia. Some weird scenes, some Lol one-liners...The ending is decent and makes the film worth having sat 2 hours...otherwise, meh.
"Virginia" starts with the title character(Jennifer Connelly) being carried over the threshold by Sheriff Tipton(Ed Harris), into a waiting a police car. As she so kindly puts it, everything began to go wrong as it always does with a reality show, this one raising the profile of Tipton in his race for State Senate. At the same time, he continues to visit her. So, it might not surprise some that her son Emmett(Harrison Gilbertson) is not exactly sure who his father is. Once he eliminates Tipton from consideration, he feels free to pursue Tipton's daughter Jessie(Emma Roberts), even though he is still not supposed to. All Jessie wants from Emmett is for him to find religion. One might not be surprised to find Dustin Lance Black's directorial debut "Virginia" to miss the mark, considering he has never done this before. The surprising thing is a lot of the fault is due to his screenplay, considering all the acclaim he has in this area. To be brief unlike the movie's story, it goes off in every direction imaginable, including a lead character who is both mentally and physically ill. However, Black must be doing something right to at least get a pulse out of Connelly but otherwise it is not the cast's fault if they don't know whether it is supposed to be a comedy or a tragedy and act accordingly .(Although the first time we see the gorilla mask it is very funny.) The only thing for certain is the movie's main target being religious hypocrisy. Been there. Done that.
A truly unique and fresh kind of movie that breaks your heart all the way through. Jennifer Connelly is a wonder to behold as the lovely, and off-kilter Virginia. Worth watching.
Maybe I have bad taste in movies or maybe I was just bored, but I actually found this movie pretty good.
VIRGINIA benefits from a terrific ensemble performance and interesting direction from Dustin Lance Black. Yet, the script desperately needs editing and simplifying. It's overly long and the characters far too challenging to fully engage and sometimes are past comprehension. Even the most sympathetic characters are brittle in portrayal and too afflicted. However, the film bravely touches on subversive subject matter and displays a unique filmmaker that will hopefully be able to continue honing his voice.
jen connelly's worse film. a mentally ill female having an affair w/the bald and elderly town sheriff. annoyingly uninteresting. the end credits were a sight 4 sore eyes.