Farhan Asif Zihan This movie is a total disaster. Possibly the only good thing about this movie is the cast- Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore. I'm not a very big fan of Elijah or Mandy, but I've seen a couple of their movies, and they shine in their own ways. They're really great actors and even in this movie their acting is praiseworthy. The starting of the movie is... let's say a bit weird, yeah but that's okay sometimes. This evening i was watching this movie with a friend of mine. We thought why don't we stick with it a bit longer, it might get interesting later on, but we were so wrong. The script (although I doubt if there's any) is awful, the plot... well, i don't have a single clue about that! We watched the whole movie just to figure out- What the hell it's really about! It's just so boring, so annoying and kiddish with no real climax and the sudden (happy?)ending was something that you'll least expect... So terribly unrealistic! There's many "feel good" romantic comedies out there that will leave you with a "feeling" which lingers for sometime. The only feeling i have now after watching this movie is disappointment/confusion. Some of the scenes have no connection to the main storyline at all and it seemed like i was flipping through TV channels. There's a lot of good movies out there. Don't waste your time or money or good mood. 1 out of 10 and this is certainly going to my "worst movies ever" list.

TxMike Most romantic comedies seems to be cut out of the same mold lately. A recent example of a mediocre one is 'Raising Helen', with some refreshing moments, but mostly an uninteresting treatment of 'boy meets girl'. This one is very different. Caught somewhere between a comedy and a drama, overall it is more funny than serious, but with a few serious moments. Unpredictable characters, interesting situations, make for interesting viewing. Elijah Woods, that cute little guy, is destined for a career that parallels the one Michael J Fox has had. Mandy Moore continues to show why she has become one of the better young actresses, seemingly able to play any type of role. Franka Potente is fine, but I wonder why she was cast. I like her, she was great in 'Run Lola Run', but with her obvious German accent, which was never explained in the movie, she doesn't seem to be a logical choice. But in the end, hers was a very nice character.SPOILERS FOLLOW, quit reading, OK? Woods plays a 'Jones' (first name), a 17 year old boy from a family of wealth, off to college, financed by grandpa, but "withdraws" his first day when he meets his skinhead roommate from hell. So he finds a small apartment in a converted 3-story house, other tenants are Moore and Potente. Writes a check for $12,000 to cover the year lease amount. He was highly inexperienced in the ways of the world. Oh, and by the way, is still a virgin. Moore is an actress, Potente a photographer. Woods writes letters to his dad he never knew, but instead of mailing them puts them in his large trunk, because he doesn't know who his father is. The fourth tenant is a nice gay man who has guns and a motorcycle, and helps Jones learn some new skills. Jones and the photographer develop an attraction, but it is obvious that she, a somewhat older woman, just wants a friendship. In the end, after a wreck avoiding a deer at night, Jones drives her 2000 miles to be with her cad of an old boyfriend. Jones tries to talk her out of it, but leaves anyway. Growing up, learning the ways of life, he confronts his phobias, comes to grips with not ever meeting his father, and as the movie ends we see Potente coming back, to give Jones a go because he is a genuine, decent guy.

screenhound22 There could be some SPOILERS AHEAD but I doubt it. I have no idea how the screenplay for this one made it past the shredder. It's horrible. Completely unwatchable. I hung in there for 45 minutes (about half the running time) and just couldn't stand it anymore. I was an Elijah Wood fan in the '90s (see "The War") and I learned to enjoy Mandy Moore's shifts from bubbly to serious this year (see "Chasing Liberty" which is surprisingly entertaining). I've seen bits of "Run Lola Run." So with three leads I liked this should have been fine. It wasn't. Nobody turned in a good performance. Wood's Jones was flat. For an aspiring writer he had next to no imagination (his violent fantasies looked like they were ripped off from "A Christmas Story" and his lustful ones were--huh, a cross between boring and alarming). Potente is absolutely unlikable from the first second and I'd only know that she was supposed to be "THE girl" by reading the box. Speaking of the synopsis--whoever they employed for that job made the film sound funny, quirky, romantic, and quite enjoyable. Whoever that person was, he or she should have been employed to rewrite this script. By the halfway point, I didn't care about ANY of the characters anymore. Moore's Lisa is an aspiring actress who's bubbly and a little conniving (for no apparent reason at all) but her ludicrous period play (which is supposed to be funny in presentation) is on a par with the rest of the script. There is supposedly a happy, romantic comedy ending to this turkey--given the character material they had to work with, I just can't envision it. Save your money. Warn your friends. DON'T watch this movie.

gbackman Because of his superb work as Frodo, I have become a fan of E. Wood. Recently, I began viewing his previous films, having seen very few before LotR. A few nights ago I watched "The War", a pretty good film in which Wood does an amazing, truly convincing job at portraying the intense, very complex boy, Stu. But viewing "All I Want", I hardly can believe it is the same actor! The film has many good ideas but doesn't develop them. It's like a sketch for another film that never was made. The acting is like that, too. Some good ideas, isolated convincing moments, but mostly the scenes seem more like early rehearsals than finished performances. I can only think to blame the director for both the wispyness of the film as a whole and for the portrayals, most of which only hint at what might make their characters tick. Only Franka Potente is able to scrounge up something that feels like a real person. A waste of a lot of acting talent all round, in my opinion.