Directed and Written by : Cameron Crowe
Starring : Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, John Krasinski,
Release Date : May 28, 2015
To say this movie is all over the place is putting it mildly. This is one of those cases where it's trying to do too much, that the end results feel like a mish mash, stream of consciousness, off the cuff production. It has a very ambitious thematic story, a whole lot of plot going on, and a huge cast of characters, that this 1 hour and 45 mins film, feels like a condensed version of a 13 episodes TV series.
The primary thing keeping this movie together is the whole cast. It doesn't help that a lot of the written dialogue feels unnatural, but this all star cast made the best of it as they could. Bradley Cooper is a good actor and Emma Stone is a good actress as well. Unfortunately they were given two unbelievable characters to play, that is put in a ridiculous relationship.
Hawaii and it's native people; at least the ones they did actually show, are like a character in itself. However, I couldn't help but feel quite a bit of embarrassing patronizing on the movie's part on Hawaiian culture and it's people. It did bring up interesting social political aspects, but that plot line wasn't this movie's priority.
"Aloha" is definitely Cameron Crowe at his weakest, and is not a movie I would wholeheartedly recommend. Which is too bad, because there were some few genuinely great scenes that I actually did love, but it would have been preferable to see those used in a better movie.
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