Two Days (2003)

30 year old failed Hollywood actor Paul Miller (Paul Rudd) intends to kill himself in 2 days. He has brought in Stu (Adam Scott), Stu's girlfriend Jennifer (Marguerite Moreau), and a crew to document his last days as he reconnects with old friends and family members. They try to talk him out of it and many wonder about his true intention.With Rudd and Scott, one assumes that this would be a comedy. It's more of a dark comedy although it's not anything funny. It is somewhat unique. It's strangely quirky but it can't maintain any drive beyond the initial fascination. After awhile, one wonders if there is an actual person in Paul. Instead of the behind the scene stupidity, this should be a movie about Paul. The rest left me cold and Paul mostly refuses to let me in. There is a cool distance and an actor's facade that prevents the performance from becoming real. This is an interesting experimental film idea but nothing more.

Paul Miller, a self-described "failed actor," sets out for his final act and his ultimate role. The last two days of his life ending with his suicide on tape. He tries to reunite with old friends and family members to say one last final goodbye, all of whom attempt to coax him out of killing himself or dismiss his intentions as a joke.Paul Rudd never goes below a certain level of acting ability, which is why he's in so many movies. The big negative in this movie is that the secondary characters are not especially good actors and it brings the movie down.The movie runs the gamut from funny to dark and depressing, which also is a bit unsettling because you don't know what to think. There is also a real lot if filler material like introducing the crew -- who care? What you really mean is you couldn't come up with enough appropriate footage to fill a feature film.And therein lies the rub. We're interested in Paul but get a lot of the bad acting secondary characters. Also odd is that this is a video tape record but it sure looks like film. I could be wrong.In the end, the movie is brought down by way too much filler and bad acting. Oh, and a cop-out ending we were promised would not happen.

I won't say that this is an excellent movie...there are things that would have certainly made it better. I thought that some of the actual movie footage was distracting. There was so much footage of the documentary (and the documentary of the documentary) that I found the cuts back to actual movie distracting at times (yes, this was really a movie about a documentary and a documentary about that documentary).That having been said, I thought there was a lot to like about the movie as well. The acting was very very good (Paul Rudd was especially good). It was also (I thought) a rather novel approach to the subject matter. Definitely worth watching.

I saw hundreds of movies in my life, only a few of them had affect on me like this movie. People may like it or not, it still influence your thoughts and emotions, and the superb acting of the main character only adds to the authenticity of the story. Besides that, the movie is very original (even though it's influenced from some reality shows). Although the movie talks about very serious matter, it does it in very "friendly" way, you feel comfortable with the character. Still, it seems that even if everything is seems to be Okay, It's NOT. And that's, I believe, the real story of the movie.Besides that, It's a great shame that the movie didn't hit the cinemas, in my country anyway, I believe that people must see this movie, even just for the thoughts that come up from that movie.