While many people have a deep affection toward Adam Sandler, he once again proves in this film that he is a single-dimensional bit player. Although Don Cheadle manages to salvage this debacle of a film - not to mention a boring film - Sandler just doesn't cut it as the disturbed widower. Sandler plays former dentist Charlie (and believe me, that name gets really annoying when you hear 878 times throughout the film), a man who loses his family during the 9/11 attacks.What the film attempts to do is capture the essence that propelled Robert Redford's Ordinary People in 1980. However, the film falls flat. Unlike Timothy Hutton, who played the disturbed son in Ordinary People, Sandler can't make it work in Reign. While Hutton's performance is seamless and believable as he copes with the unfortunate death of his brother, Sandler comes off as someone not suffering from a deep depression, but someone who is severely schitzophrenic. It appears that Sandler doesn't need therapy; rather, he needs an exorcism.
All in all, Reign is a bad film. Moreover, it's boring. Don't waist your time with this one folks. D+.
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