A Good Marriage (2014)

It's too late for me !! This was sooo bad What happened to Joan Allen!!!!!!

Ratings can make or break a movie.How many times have we skipped a movie because of a bad review ? A Good Marriage is a very entertaining, watchable movie.Due to this review,I would of passed on this,but I watched the movie before I read the review.Lucky me.As I try to understand why this movie was given a thumbs down,I cannot come to any rhyme or reason why this movie was tossed in the outhouse.Maybe IMDB should review the reviewer.

I'll start off by saying I'm a huge Stephen King fan - always have been; always will be. But I haven't rushed to see "A Good Marriage" because the reviews haven't been great. But it was the sheer ordinariness of this movie that sent chills up my spine. It made me think of Hannah Arendt's coverage of the Eichmann trials and musings on the banality of evil. Most of us aren't shocked when a criminal is rounded up who looks like Charles Manson and has a troubled past. But what do we make of the criminal who has no criminal past, looks like the classic "boy/girl next door", and was class valedictorian? The Ted Bundys of the world? Okay, so the beginning was a bit of a snooze fest. I kept thinking to myself, "Normal, hard-working people, happy family, solid marriage - I get it already." I honestly wasn't expecting a lot from this movie. I love Stephen King, but I had heard that A "Good Marriage" lacked the requisite Stephen King signature staples, like rotting, talking corpses, telepathic powers, killer cars, etc. And though the main theme was an interesting idea, it didn't break any new ground. I mean, a woman discovers her husband isn't what she thought he was...been there, done that. Story of my life. At best, a sure contender for the Lifetime Channel. But it was the sheer mundane-ness of this movie that made it so intriguing and ultimately disturbing.I could emotionally relate to Darcy as she discovered that her husband was the infamous Beadie, but what intrigued me even more was her response.Darcy's final conversation with a guy obsessed with tracking down Beadie was poignant. Here, he's spent a huge chunk of his life chasing down a serial killer only to be forced to reexamine his own life and learn that things aren't always so cut-and-dried or black-and-white as they initially seem.In the final analysis, "A Good Marriage" may have been too real and down-to-earth for Stephen King loyalists and people accustomed to high drama, but if you can appreciate an intimate, subtle, slow burning character study I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

"A good marriage" is a movie that goes with the flow. It tells its story without the big heights or downs. In short is settles around a loving wife which has to discover, that her beloved husband is responsible for the murder of several women, leaving her with the choice how to continue.Unfortunately, the film isn't really thrilling. Once the basic story is revealed, there is actually not much happening anymore, neither in a form of plot twists, nor in a form of a closer psychological depiction of the main character. Therefore, it appears quite unlikely many times because the woman just seems to accept what she finds out while her husband isn't really showing any regret at all. It is puzzling how she more or less just continues her life with him. That is until all of a sudden she goes berserk and kills him, quite out of the blue. But even then there's not really much tension.I've surely seen worse. You can give this film a watch and probably won't heavily regret it but I have to say that it isn't special. If that fits what you're looking for, "A good marriage" will serve you well.