By Lisa Shelby
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March 28, 2003
"View From the Top," Gwyneth Paltrow's new movie about the trials and tribulations of life as a flight attendant, can be summed up in one key word: predictable.As far as romantic comedies go, this film fails on both accounts.The pathetically developed and hackneyed romance between Donna, the questionably stupid yet brave flight attendant (Paltrow) and Ted (Mark Ruffalo), the supposedly intelligent law student, is comparable to the comic element of the film, which is ... well, absent.How director Bruno Barrelo created a movie that fails to be neither comic nor romantic escapes me, but for this feat and this feat only, he deserves applause.Congratulations, Bruno Barrelo, for you've directed a movie that promises to grace an innumerable abundance of "Worst Movie of the Year" lists.
The film chronicles the life of Donna, a small town girl who appears doomed to work in a department store for the rest of her life, yet dreams of bigger and better things.