Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

jen_marien It's too bad this movie never really had a big theater presence. I happened to find it on Netflix and was pleasantly surprised. You see J-Lo's name and think "ugh", and then Redford & Freeman "Hello!", but everyone is great in this movie and very believable. First I thought it was only going to be about the Woman & her Daughter running from an abuser, but it turned out to be so much more......an angry man who lost a son, a friend who is stuck in a damaged body, death, life, BEARS (lol!).It's heartfelt, simple, nothing fancy, but really makes you think about wasting time.

tieman64 Directed by Lasse Hallstrom, "An Unfinished Life" stars Robert Redford as Einar Gilkyson, a Wyoming rancher. Einar's drunkenness led to his buddy, Mitch Bradley (Morgan Freeman), being mauled by a giant bear. Einar refuses to forgive himself. Mitch forgives both Einar and the bear.Issues of "mercy" and "forgiveness" extend throughout Hallstrom's film. Einar's daughter-in-law, Jean Gilkyson (Jennifer Lopez), is held in contempt by Einar; he blames her for his son's death. But when Einar forgives Jean's daughter (Becca Gardner) for her involvement in an accident, it spurs him to forgive Jean herself. "I think the dead forgive us our sins," Mitch says, his gentle wisdom inspiring Hallstrom's cast to let go of their hate.Despite a creaky performance by Lopez, "An Unfinished Life" features gorgeous location photography, palpable atmosphere and likable performances by Freeman and Redford, who play a couple of cantankerous old men. Young Becca Gardener steals the show.7.9/10 - See "The Yellow Handkerchief", "Flesh and Bone" (1993) and "Everything Must Go".

frog3404 Heart warming story of an abused woman,Lopez, who runs away from her jerk boyfriend and, with her daughter from a previous marriage, travel to Wyoming to befriend the woman's father-in-law,Redford, and her daughters grandfather. The film was actually shot in Canada. The clue to that was during the granddaughter's driving lesson. The pickup truck was a Mercury which is the ford version made in Canada. The woman's husband, who was the son of Redford, was killed in an auto accident which the father-in-law never forgave her for. Redford finally comes to grip with reality, thanks in part to his granddaughter, and accepts both daughter-in-law and granddaughter as part of his family Morgan Freeman plays Redford's friend and ranch hand who has been mauled by a bear. The best line of the movie comes at the end. Freeman says, "Would you bury me next to Grif." (dead son of Redford) Redford replies, "Don't you think you ought'a die first!"

RResende Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez. Each one is the owner of a specific perspective or a perspective appeal which everybody will expect them to perform. Except for Lopez, the other two are perfectly convinced of the importance to the whole world that someone like them exist. At least as actors. So, if this premises make the creation of a film with this mixture something quite hard to achieve, join Lasse Hallström to the group. For what i've seen, he did fairly well in Chocolate, because the group of actors was good (Depp and Binoche, Molina and Dench). Predictably he wouldn't do anything worthwhile here. Confirmed.Start with the script. It just moves the necessary stones to make what Redford and Freeman need in the first place. The first one recovers his character from 'Out of Africa', free spirit, detached from the conventions of the ordinary world, trying to live a free life, and paying the price of unhappy and ultimately undesired loneliness. Freeman recovers his only character. The 'i'm always right' guy. The man of the words, incredible how he made a career out of delivering the same kind of insipid thinking over and over again, without any tone change. Some good actors started doing it in the curse of the career (Hopkins, sometimes Nicholson), but this one did it all the time. Jennifer Lopez plays along, she's more honest in her integration here than the other two, at least she doesn't take personal egos into it.Also the base problem of stories of good and evil. This case we have the also common variant of good, yet deviated people. Lopez and Redford's characters have a dark event in their common past that separated them, but deep down they're good, very good people. This is established from the beginning. I mean, what's the point? Not even the potentially interesting connection with the wilderness of the spirit (the relation with the bear, and all the meanings that could flow from there) was well made. Well, there was also a role Freeman would have to perform.The landscapes were well chosen, it had potential, pity the sad story that was placed there.Side note: did the violent ex-boyfriend go back to town just to get beaten by Redford? Or was there some angle i missed? My opinion: 1/5http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com