K-SCORE: 39
Director: Todd Kessler
Based on: Keith by Ron Carlson
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Elisabeth Harnois, Margo Harshman
Spoiler Level: Major
feel the angst
Keith, about a high school senior, bright and talented, who gets involved in the life of her apathetic but interesting lab partner, Keith, which I had predicted from the get go, takes, much like this sentence, entirely too long to get to its point. What you want to know is why Keith doesn’t seem to care about anything. You also want to know why Keith is hanging out with this girl. Answer to question one: he’s dying. Answer to question two: he wants to have sex with her. It wasn’t so much that I found the film boring as it was that I wanted to fast-forward to its inevitable conclusion as I knew the destination ahead of time and what kinds of scenes I’d find along the way. So it’s not great for me. Or other people come to think of it. You know what, it's really just not that great. Skip it. Neeeext!