![]() It features a man who’s hit bottom, personally and professionally, who must return to his home of sorts to right some wrongs. So much here is so similar to Crowe’s 2005 film, which previously had been considered his least successful. And the dialogue itself-the thing Crowe made his name on in his great, early films “Say Anything …,” “ Jerry Maguire” and “ Almost Famous”-so frequently strains for his signature poignancy that it feels like a parody of a Crowe script.įor all its needless complications, “Aloha” can be summed up simply: It’s “ Elizabethtown,” in Hawaii. It’s obvious in big developments that make you go: “Huh?” but also within individual scenes, with cutaways to different camera angles that disrupt the flow of dialogue. You can see the editing, and not in a good way. ![]() As it stands now, “Aloha” feels like several films at once, crammed together and sped up, with results that are emotionally hollow and narratively confusing. This is the rare Crowe film that could stand to be a little longer, that could use some more development in its characters and breathing room in their relationships. Even if you didn’t know any of that going into the film, though, the sensation of tinkering and re-tinkering would be inescapable.
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