The Lucky Ones (2008) 2.5/5 Stars

Starring Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Pena this beautifully made movie has indeed captured Americans common lives.

The three main actors starred as American soldiers who were serving at Iraq. As fate bring them together on the same flight back to America, the three of them got stuck in the same airport where there was a black-out incident.

Since the three of them are from the army, they have a mutual respect for each other and decided to tag along to rent a car so they can get to the place they want to by driving together.

As the story goes on the road we found out that these characters each have their own problems to solve!

Fred Cheaver (Tim Robbins) has finished his service and is going back for good. Colee Dunn (Rachel McAdams) is on a 30 days leave and going to deliver her boyfriend’s guitar to his family who died saving her while thinking of living with his family as well since she does not have her own family. Then there is TK (Michael Pena) who is also on a 30 days leave is back to face his girlfriend after getting an injury on his groin area (impotency) that might threaten his relationship.

Tim Robbins as a 40ish Cheaver is very believable with the acting, he manage to bring the veteran soldier to life and is pretty crushing when his character found out that the wife is leaving him and the kid needs USD 20,000 to go to college.

While Michael Pena as TK is hilarious since his character is trying to reveal the reason he wanted to go to Las Vegas to get his “thing” to work back on.

The most entertaining portrayal would be Rachel McAdams’ Colee Dunn who appeared to be very innocent and naïve throughout the movie, her character’s simple outlook on life rewarding her biting remarks from TK, “That girl is living in a dream”. When McAdams’ character found out about her dead boyfriend from his family, her acting is top notch and really felt. The other interesting thing to check out is her southern accent that is so drawly.

Along with these characters road trip we are faced with some Americans life as they are.

This movie is nicely casts and the story which at first seemed common, ended very open-hearted and when we all might think that even though sometimes life is complicated and messy, they always work out somehow when we are open to possibilities and try to help one another.

2,5 out of 5 stars

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