Headed by the dream pairing of Nicholson and Freeman, "The Bucket List" takes a pretty morbid subject (how would you spend the last months you have left of life?) and turns it into something hilarious, moving and life-affirming.
The two leads are fantastic(you wouldn't expect any less), and the movie as a whole is full of so much heart and vim that you can't help but get carried along with it. The special effects required for some of the scenes are glaringly obvious, but that never detracts from the essence of the film, and while the more emotional core of the story can occasionally be pretty calculated in it's methods for attacking the heart strings, when it's playing those beats so well you'd need a stone heart to not let it affect you. Put this on your "must see" list.
The two leads are fantastic(you wouldn't expect any less), and the movie as a whole is full of so much heart and vim that you can't help but get carried along with it. The special effects required for some of the scenes are glaringly obvious, but that never detracts from the essence of the film, and while the more emotional core of the story can occasionally be pretty calculated in it's methods for attacking the heart strings, when it's playing those beats so well you'd need a stone heart to not let it affect you. Put this on your "must see" list.