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Title: Half the movie great, the other half not so great
Review: This movie has some very good points and some not so good.First, the good: Keanu Reeves did a very good job as Siddhartha, and contrary to what one reviewer wrote below, Reeves is half-white and half-Asian (his father is Chinese/Hawaiian). Regardless of Reeves' racial/ethnic stock, he did a wonderful job in this movie. Actually the half of the movie about the life of Siddharta was fascinating and magnificently filmed. I wish the whole movie were about his life and not the silly search. The music soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto was also superb.Now for the bad: the half of the movie searching for the young Buddha was silly and the acting was poor by the parents of the boy. It did not ring true and was uninteresting. A whole movie about Siddhartha's life would have been much better.That said, the half of the movie with Reeves is worth seeing and savoring, while the other half can be fast-forwarded.
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