The Air I Breathe

Review: THE AIR I BREATHE Directed by Jieho Lee (ThinkFilm)

The current big-screen trend of interwoven stories connected via "fate" and "coincidence" reaches its boiling point in Jieho Lee's overbaked, self-important underworld soap opera. To add insult to injury, Lee purports to weave the whole mess together with platitudes from an old Chinese proverb. The cliches and absurdities pile up with such aggressive force in The Air I Breathe that one begins to wonder whether it's a comedy: Forest Whitaker as an office drudge who falls in with Andy Garcia's nefarious, goofily named criminal, Fingers, who controls Sarah Michelle Gellar's lonely-at-the-top pop singer, who only needs the redemptive love of Brendan Fraser's sensitive, sight-seeing thug.

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