"O" Review
Throughout my 11 years at Boys’ Latin, I’ve been shown a multitude of movies in the classroom. Everything from “Chicken Run” to “Minions” to sex-ed videos has graced the projectors, or occasionally, those super old TVs 2 feet deep that teachers have to wheel in on big carts. Regardless of the form they’re shown in, the movies have varied drastically in quality from something barely beyond that of Mr. P’s video production class to Oscar award-winning films. Tim Nelson’s “O” sits firmly in the middle of that range. The Movie “O” took home $19.2 million on a budget of $5 million and was released 11 days before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which in hindsight, probably hurt its performance. Regardless of the release date, the $5 million budget is clearly shown in the movie. Most scenes take place in a dorm room or the bizarre aviary that keeps showing up, with the basketball sequences taking up most of the budget. I’ll give the film a pass for this though as Shakespeare's Othello is mos...