Review – 21 Grams

Is the title a reference to the supposed weight of the soul (as measured when it departs the body after death) or the amount of coke you have to get into a studio executive before he’ll green-light a movie like this? Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro star as three people brought together by a fatal accident and a heart transplant. This stiff little melodrama’s only real claim to originality is that the scenes are scattered with no particular respect for chronology. That makes it annoying until one gets enough of the plot down to be able to piece the thing together (and only moderately less annoying even after the story finally emerges). See if desperate