If you feel all of Sanlder’s movies are formulaic and his performance the same you have to see Punch Drunk Love, solely for the way Sandler acts in the film.
Sandler stars as Barry who has seven elder sisters under whose influence he has become repressed after constant ridicule. Pressure of which shows in his occasional outbursts of anger.
The character is pretty out of Sandler’s comfort zone, though it may remind you of “The Waterboy”. It is not a rom-com. It is about his character achieving love of his life through challenges that he faces because of his own personality.
In words of Roger Ebert, “Most of Sandler's plots are based on predictable, production-line formulas, and after "Punch-Drunk Love" I may begin seeing them as traps containing a resentful captive.” And “I feel liberated in films where I have absolutely no idea what will happen next. Lena and Barry are odd enough that anything could happen in their relationship. A face-to-face meeting with the Utah porn king (Anderson regular Philip Seymour Hoffman) and another meeting with the four blond brothers are equally unpredictable. And always there is Barry's quick, terrifying anger, a time bomb ticking away beneath every scene.”
Incidentally it is his best critically received film of his career. Watch it for Adam Sandler, for his different performance
Written by Ali Naqvi
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