You've never heard me say cuntsucker before, have you? It's all about the element of surprise.

Is it already 8 months since January? Bloody hell, how's it rushed by so far? Well at the top of the year during Oscar season we were given a reunited couple in Leo and Kate Winslet for Hubby Sam Mendes' film Revolutionary Road, where for 2 hours they screamed at each other into a perpetual hell in suburbia.

The film is about a loving couple, Burt and Verona, played to perfection by John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, who are expecting a child, and after finding Burt's parents, Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara, are planning a move to Belgium for a few years the month before the birth, decide to hunt for a place to live, now the only reason they were living there is null and void with the parents moving away.

Phoenix Arizona is the first place, with the pair finding themselves in an odd place with Allison Janney as the ex-boss of Verona, who is obscene and loud, but her kids have managed to ignore her perfectly, and her husband is just a constant depression. Whilst I love Janney, her character, because she was a loud drunken mother, was annoying, and when the humour occurred it felt a little too broad, still, that part is over quickly, onto learning more about Verona's family, including a wonderful heartfelt moment in a bath in a bath showroom. Onto the next set of parents, Maggie Gyllenhaal's hippie parent, breast-feeding other kids, and sleeping in one big bed. A dinner table scene where he ideals are pushed to the point of recoil becomes a comic version of the dinner table scene in Revolutionary Road in which Michael Shannon enters the house and shouts at the couple for not realising what they have, and how stupid they are about what they are doing with their lives, this is loud but the sense of fun for the couple to let loose, and break all of the hippie's rules, makes it so endearing.

As we progress through a series of characters ruining different parts of the world, and a really hard hitting pole dancing scene that's just beautifully done, it's nice that the interplay of the leads is so interesting, funny and heartfelt, the chemistry is true and it's lovely to be able to see a couple not go through hell and have a break up segment in a film, and by the end, with the simple interstitial "HOME" it's a moving experience of pure love, something so sweet to watch it really pushed this film higher than it should be, given it's a mere 1 hour 35 minutes and yet it feels longer, thought that could be more that the film started, then was rewound and began again, probably that.

Music is great, normal indie film alt-mellow rock stuff, but it's nice, visuals are sublime, really wonderful to look at, acting is all top, writing is cracking, except one overly expositional line about a job interview.

Overall this is Sam Mendes' best film to date, but personally his films always fail to live up to expectation.
8/10