Powder Blue

Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta.  A cast like that should mean a good movie.  Well not so fast.

Powder Blue is attempting to be a movie like Crash.  However, it fails in many ways.  Jessica Biel plays Rose Johnny, a stripper (she gets topless) who is having a terrible time but trying to raise money for her sick son.  Ray Liotta plays Jack, who is trying to force his way into her life.  Then we have Qwerty (I guess his parents liked the keyboard) who is a mortician who is terrible with girls.  How do they get connected?  Jack is Rose-Johnny's estranged father, and Qwerty accidentally runs over Rose Johnny's dog.  From there, their lives intermingle.  Makes sense.  Oh and Patrick Swayze players her creep boss, but he's a minor character.

Now comes the strange part, Forest Whitaker's only involvement with other characters is that he plays a person who lost his wife in an accident and is terribly depressed and wants to pay someone to kill him so he can be with her in heaven.  He stumbles upon Qwerty and tries to get him to kill him, but he refuses.  Other than that, he is his own story, not related to any other characters, nor do the characters he come into contact with have any connection to the previous characters.  Odd.  Kind of like 2 movies running at once.

This movie just didn't develop enough, and it wasn't realistic enough.  I could never see something like this happening in real life.  The acting wasn't bad itself, though. Whitaker was great.  Liotta was his usual self.  Basically if you are bored, give it a run.  Or if you want to see Jessica Biel topless.  If you wan't an interlocking set of stories that is amazing, go see Crash.

I rate this movie a 5.7 out of 10.