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Monster's Ball Movie Rating: 
Slow and Depressing
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| Death-row executioner Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton) pulls the switch on convict Lawrence Musgrove (Sean "Puffy" Combs), whose wife Leticia (Halle Berry) prepares for impending widowhood. Soon after Musgrove goes snap, crackle, pop, Leticia's chubby kid (Coronji Calhoun) goes splat by the roadside, and Hank's tortured son (Heath Ledger) goes out with a bang. Drawn together by their loss, Hank and Leticia embark on a forbidden interracial love affair. |
 Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton. Courtesy of Lions Gate Films. |
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Swiss director Mark Forster's pacing is as slow as a
Georgia drawl, and Thornton's acting style goes beyond minimalism into
somnambulism. It is up to Berry's sobbing histrionics to slap some life into the
movie. This bleak, depressing film about racism is an artsy snooze fest.
Gay Interest: None Although both stars appear in the nude, this ugly-looking movie has almost no eye candy appeal. | |
