http://www.indy.com/posts/526 en-us joe.shearer I'd personally rate "Reign Over Me" on the lower end of "eh..." Don Cheadle is one of my favorite actors, and he was typically terrific in "Reign", but I thought Adam Sandler was weak. His character was a slightly sadder variation on one he's played for years, which is the misunderstood loner with temper issues. I thought his reactions were way over the top and I went from sympathizing with him deeply to really disliking him. If he'd stuck to just doing quirky things (like buying the gigantic TV and playing video games and buying rare records all the time) I could have liked the character. But the fits of rage were too maudlin for my taste. I do also want to say that I grew up with Adam Sandler movies and have enjoyed films of his like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore that are of course not classics in the traditional cinematic sense, but ones that I love because they're so incredibly goofy. But as Sandler has become more mainstream he's gotten almost unbearable to me (I wasn't a fan of "Little Nicky," "Big Daddy" or "Spanglish," and I couldn't even finish "Click"). I know a lot of people really liked "Reign," but not so much me. Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:58:26 -0400 http://www.indy.com/posts/526#comment_942 http://www.indy.com/posts/526#comment_942