As a rule I will usually post my movie review the same evening after I
have seen the movie but I wanted to give the “Third Person” awhile
before giving my opinions. I don’t remember the last time I saw an
audience with such puzzled faces walking out of a movie theatre as I did
after the end credits were shown.

While I prefer my movies tied up in a bow with rational explanations of
why/what took place I don’t mind the occasional one with ambiguous
endings but sometimes the writer/director, in this case Paul Haggis, who
also wrote and directed the Oscar winning “Crash”, goes a little too
far. There are 3 stories going on here simultaneously but really there
is a fourth which helps in adding, “What?!” to the ending. I don’t like
to give spoilers so I really won’t give my explanation except to say as a
writer I have written books of fiction giving characters different
aspects of myself and leave it at that.

The stories revolve around Mike (Liam Neeson), Anna (Olivia Wilde) and
his wife (Kim Basinger), Sean (Adrien Brody) and Monika (Moran Atias),
Julia (Mila Kunis) and her ex (James Franco) and her lawyer (Maria
Bello) each story involving a child, girl or boy, dead or alive.

One couple is in Paris, another in Rome and a third in New York and
whether on purpose or not the writer/director Haggis will have Mila in
New York, where her main story takes and place, and twice in Paris
without any reason except writers have the freedom to take their story
where they want.

All the actors do fine but Kunis’s make up is a bit too much even for a
one time soap opera star and Brody comes up bland playing opposite
Atias, an Israeli actress, as a Romanian gypsy!

I don’t know how to explain this but though the movie is interesting it
is also boring, the running time being over 2 hours and 20 minutes. The
film is about all aspects of love but doesn’t get the viewer involved
which in the end makes it a failure.