Reign Over Me

Reign Over Me is perhaps Adam Sandler's best role since taking on more serious roles as of late.

This movie is brilliant and I recommend it to everyone.

The movie takes you inside the mind of a father and husband who lost his wife and three daughters on 9-11. We all know the tragedy of 9-11, and we all bought our flags and sported them on our cars to support our country for a few months after the tragedy of that day.

However, we do not realize how many people this incident actually effected. So many people have so many terrible, terrible stories about this day and Reign Over Me captures this. There needs to be more movies about peoples stories from this day. Not just movies can capture these stories, but journalists all over the country should still be telling the stories of others about this tragedy. To many it may be just another tragedy that happened just over six years ago, but to the people it effected directly it is a tragedy that has effected them forever.

Sandler's performance is amazing in the movie. This is possibly one of the best movies I have seen in a while. Sandler captures the pain of someone who has lost family because of 9-11 very well. Sandler's role as someone suffering post-traumatic stress from an incident in their lives is captured brilliantly.

Don Cheadle also starred beside Sandler as Sandler's old college roommate who runs into him. Cheadle also has a great performance in this flick. His role really works well because the whole audience can identify with his character. The audience can identify with his character because if they had a friend who was struggling in life because of tragedy in their life, they would also try and help their friend and do everything they could to make things right. Even if the friend does not want their help, they were not going to just sit and watch as their friend suffered.

Here's a trailer from the movie. Again, I strongly recommend this movie.