Management

Management

I rented this movie on a limb. I saw it at the Redbox kiosk, and said, “aw what the hell, ill try it out.” What made me want to get it the most was that Steve Zhan was the main character. I loved him in Happy Texas where he was an ex-con posing as a gay beauty pageant director. He is great in a lot of movies. So that’s why I rented it. Really knew nothing about it.

It was actually really good. I was surprised. What surprised me the most was how plain Jenifer Aniston looked in the movie. Ok, to the real stuff of the movie. The plot of the movie is great. Steve Zhan (Mike) works at his parent’s motel. He is the maintenance man. His life is more or less the same everyday. He lives in Arizona, and they rarely get interesting people coming through. So one day when Jenifer Aniston (Sue) comes through, Mike is automatically smitten by her. He comes by her room every night and brings her random gifts. When those fail, he tells her that he likes her butt, and she lets him touch her butt. They start a little fling. Mike flies out to Maryland to try and pursue her. It doesn’t work out. He ends up taking a bus back to Arizona. Then she comes back to Arizona, and it doesn’t work out again. She leaves. Mike wants her back, so he travels to Maryland to find her, and finds out that she is living with her ex boyfriend who is a “punk” played by Woody Harrelson. Mike goes to Aberdeen to find her, and gets a job at a Chinese restaurant and makes best friends with the funniest Chinese guy ever. They are determined to win Sue back for Mike. After a while, Mike becomes a Buddhist monk, but gets asked to leave when getting to intense about volleyball. Then he tries one more time with sue…

Might have given you to much info about the movie, but trust me, it goes way more deep than that. This movie is extremely funny and quirky. Through out the movie I was laughing, and just feeling bad for Mike. He is just so in love, and doesn’t know what to do about it. Steve Zhan stole my heart in this film.

Jenifer Aniston didn’t to do bad in this movie. I liked her character. I have never seen her play a character quite like this. She was dull, boring, and played it safe. She wasn’t outgoing, and dressed really plain. She wasn’t hot at all.

Woody Harrelson and the Chinese friend were so funny in this movie. Woody plays this ex-punk rocker, and does a very good job at it. He cracked me up through out the movie. The Chinese dude was just dope. He had great one-liners, and made the movie have very good balance.

This isn’t a movie that focuses on cinematography, or editing. It was a romantic comedy. It also had a great soundtrack with songs mostly by The New Pornographers. All in all, this movie flowed together very well. I liked it so much that I bought it on Amazon immediately after renting it. It’s a movie I would like to own in my collection for a long time.