Venus - 3.0

Venus tells the story of a dying man's relationship with a young woman. I watched it because Peter O'Toole played the dying man and was nominated for an Oscar for his performance last year. While O'Toole certainly did a fine job (though I must say I'm glad Forrest Whitaker ended up beating him out), I could never get past the creepiness of an old ass man in an at times sexual relationship with a 20 year old girl. Since this relationship was the linchpin of the movie and any emotional resonance that it produced would come from the viewer buying into it, the movie obviously failed pretty miserably in my eyes since I was cringing half the time the two main characters were on screen together. Maybe because I never cared about the characters a whole lot, I also found the story pretty dull. O'Toole's evolution from former leading man into crotchety old man was the only bright spot in this disappointing drama and even that had an air of been there, done that (Henry Fonda's performance in On Golden Pond immediately comes to mind as a better version of the same transformation).