The only movie I saw this weekend was a rental of Nurse Betty.
My only opinion of Rene Zellweiger was from the movie Jerry McGuire, which I thought was an ok performance. I haven't seen Bridget Jones Diary yet, but I have seen her interviewed for it a few times as well as on SNL a couple of weeks ago.
She comes across as a little odd, which is the one characteristic needed for NB, a oddity that seems borderline insane.
A slight departure from LaBute's previous work -- his p.o.v. about the depravity of humans still holds, but he tries to do it this time with humor. Excellent work by Morgan Freeman as a thinking hit man. The guy who is always in an Neil LaBute movie (played Erin Brocko's hippie boyfriend) plays the utterly disgusting husband (a little more lowdown that the boorish husband character in Thelma and Louise. Slightly fewer deaths in the final act than Hamlet's last act. Chris Rock is Freeman's partner, and he seethes so muchs that it seems like Rock just being Rock. Deleted scenes on the DVD explain his character better. Zellweiger is infatuated with a soap star (Greg Kennear) and confuses fact with truth. Freeman, in the course of his work, creates a mythic "Betty" and also faces confusion about reality. Zellweiger gets her dreams fullfilled. Freeman doesn't.
