Immediate development is scarce, which is something that can work just fine, if handled properly, as it is indeed quite difficult to keep limited immediate exposition from doing some damage to a film, and where this film slips up is in its attempts at compensating through immediate characterization. Of course, calm down kids, because this film is still not even close "Forrest Gump" good, and for quite the wide variety of reasons.
Eh, well, by it's own right, this is still a pretty top-notch performance by Malkovich, and Sinise ain't too shabby neither, nor is the film itself. I for one would have seen it just to see John Malkovich play mentally disabled, because he looks too perfect for it, and plus, this film came out a year before "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", so it's not like Malkovich had Leonardo DiCaprio to compete with, if you even want to use the word compete, seeing as how it insinuates that Malkovich and, well, most everyone else who's ever played mentally handicapped stood a chance of topping DiCaprio. Hey, I wouldn't have blamed the guy, because Tom Hanks dramas make money, as opposed to this film, which made very little money, and really, I must say that I am surprised about that. If Hanks didn't get sick of Sinise by "The Green Mile", I'm betting Sinise would have ended up covering his face in fuzz, brown paint and asking Robert Zemeckis to CG out his body so that he could be Wilson in "Cast Away". Clearly, once he did "Forrest Gump", he realized that it wasn't the mentally ill that was getting butts in seats, but Tom Hanks, which would explain why Sinsie just had to have himself crowbarred into every post-"Forrest Gump" Tom Hanks drama in the '90s.
Man, in the '90s, Gary Sinise just couldn't get away from the mentally handicapped, though I doubt he wanted to, because films about the mentally ill are about the only films people remember Gary Sinise being in, because he knew that the lovably inept made for great box office bait.
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