Beautiful, moving film.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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.

The Air that I Breathe is geared primarily for those between the ages of 16 and 50. The movie has a great cast of actors/actresses. They all inter-played well. It can be a prime time movie for adults, however, it is best seen late at night. I was a little depressed when I started watching the movie and was further depressed at the end. The movie did keep me interested in what was going on. This is one of those movies probably best seen alone. I was surprised at the ending. Overall, the movie did what it was supposed to -- to entertain. I gave it higher ratings than what I felt like because of the great cast. Grab your glass of wine and turn off the lights and watch the film. Enjoy

I really didn't expect to like this movie as much as I did, after all several critics had refereed to is as a tame re-packaging of Pulp Fiction. The film is broken up into four parts that are out of order, and the characters all do eventually interact, there is also a mafia angle to the film, but overall besides the way things were laid out, I didn't really draw much of a comparison to Pulp Fiction. The stories all involve these peoples interactions with the mob, but they're all for different reasons and all have different outcomes. Andy Garcia is the boss, of course, always the perfect choice for a gangster or ruthless leader, and you get from him what's expected. What isn't expected is the tremendous performance of Brendan Fraser. I am not a fan and have never really considered him anything but a mediocre comedic actor, but after seeing The Air I Breathe, my opinion of him was definitely swayed. While watching the pieces, I knew they would somehow come together, but the way it was done was completely unpredictable and really something to watch. The film had a huge cast, with a ton of cameos, and just as many twists and turns. What I was expecting was far different from what I saw and I was more than happy with the way the film was done. I think if the film had been done in the traditional model of storytelling, it wouldn't have had as big of an impact.

This is honestly one of the best comedies I saw this year. I kept complaining about Hollywood not having made a good comedy for years and there it is, I ran into this beauty, by accident. I need to admit that I was owned by the cover, Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, this must be good - I had my doubts about seeing a movie with Brandon Fraser (really lousy movies in the past) or Sarah Michelle Gellar (I don't consider her talented at all), I said come one, these two can not make Whitaker look bad, he is such an amazing actor.Oh well, it's not them that made Whitaker look bad, it's the whole movie. The acting was just as bad, but the story, oh the story, was so dull, incredibly unreal and maybe focused on 14 year old. It didn't make any sense. I kept asking myself all the time why is that guy doing that, is there any sense in this whole thing? Not to mention the fact that - the movie is made of 4 different stories - there is completely no connection whatsoever between the story. I could as well have taken 3 random people from the street and they would have been more related to each other than the people in this movie. The time sequence is completely screwed up, things happen in a completely unrelated order. I consider it painful to go into the story, but it really didn't make any sense, I found myself laughing out loud after the first 10 minutes and I continued to do so. I must admit that it was entertaining at least. Completely unbelievable, it's not only that I didn't care about the characters at all, as they were so badly built, but, after Whitaker got shot, I just wanted all to die: Garcia is a frustrated gangster, deciding to go straight, so he only beats up and kills his own people; Bacon is on speed the whole movie, going about like a maniac; Fraser wants to look depressed and mysterious, a character with a touch of darkness who, apparently, falls in love and turns good but he succeeds to look like he just had a bad meal in all the important scenes and Gellar, oh she tries to act! She tries to look frightened, to look hurt or whatever human emotions, oh well she succeeds to look like she is faking acting, a spoiled kid who got a role in a movie.Well, you can watch it if you want to have a laugh. For any other consideration, do not let the distribution full you, Whitaker made a good role, but he was really lonely in this one.

First of all this movie is not a pure action movie ... i simply noticed it on the recommendation list after looking at the review for Snath (one of my fav) so after seeing the rating i thought due to the recommendation and a 7.1 avg, you would think its a decent movie of staying in.let me say something before anything...i never considered Brendan Fraser an actor of any sort. he kinda came along to me as those actors that do those simple comedy movies. i kind liked him in Crash but he didn't capture my attention that well. but her i was simply blown. he truly captured that essence u look for in a movie where u can really spot the talent of an actor. he presented every emotion with brute force.yet this movie doesn't revolve around Brendan's character. you might think it revolves around Fingers (Andy Garcia) for he is the glue to all the characters in the plot. its about life and he chances that come along. it is deep, as deep as Crash but without the racism.this movie is a complex one, and i believe its worth your while for it is a love story combination of crash. it has one hell of a plot and a smashing ending. not the type that you would expect from thriller movies but the type where you might shed a tear in the end.this is a movie to be remembered yet, it had no hype....what a shame a perfect 10