Starring: Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, Richard Jenkins
Director: Ryan Murphy
Rating: 2.5/5
Eat Pray Love sees Elizabeth Gilbert's much loved novel brought to the big screen - with Roberts taking on the central role as Gilbert.
Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having -- a husband, a house, a successful career -- yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life.
Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.
In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.
Ok if you are looking for a movie that will take you away for a couple of hours then, I suppose, this travel rom-com is perfect - the setting to this movie is stunning, Roberts is her usually lovely self and they throw a couple of good looking bloke in for good measure.
It does everything that you expect it to... and that is really the problem. First of all at 140 minutes it's way too long - there really isn't enough drama to keep you attention for this amount of time.
Eat Pray Love is supposed to be about a woman's journey of self discover and self fulfillment as she tries to discover what she wants from her life and to get over a painful divorce.
But unfortunately you don't ever feel that Julia Roberts is in search for some answers and the movie really does seem to lack any real emotion, except from Richard Jenkins.
Sadly Eat Pray Love buckles under the Hollywood gloss and only really scratches the surface of the spiritual theme that is at the heart of the book.
The movie is not a thought provoking as you would have expected and it fails to capture the humour of the memoir.
The script never really get under the skin of Liz and you never feel like you are on this life changing journey with her - and the Hollywood and cliched ending is very disappointing.
I didn't hate, I didn't mind watching it but I won't be watching it again.
Eat Pray Love is out now
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