Review – Little Buddha

It's hard to say for certain, but I get the feeling that if this was about Jesus rather than Siddhartha Gautama, its preachiness would have pissed me the hell off. As a message from a less familiar religion, I thought it was colorful and pretty yet silly and dull. A couple (Chris Isaak and Bridget Fonda) in Seattle experience understandable confusion when a couple of monks from Nepal show up at their doorstep and announce that their young son may be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. Their attempts to wrap their heads around this weird turn of events is intercut with the story of the life of Siddhartha (Keanu Reeves). I've actually done a fair amount of reading about the Buddhist faith, but a lot of this "gospel" was new to me. Nor do I feel substantially enlightened by the tale. Maybe I just don't get the whole religion thing. And maybe this isn't the time or the place for a more thorough consideration of the subject. Mildly amusing