Customer Reviews
Fantastical comedy with gruesome bits - By: Sylv, 25 Aug 2007 
I love this movie, it's utterly random. This is a real mix of genres, so it's hard to categorise - without it's fantastical elements, it definitely wouldn't work. Serious suspension of disbelief is required but if you can manage that, it's a great, mostly light-hearted movie, with a smalll amount of quite gruesome violence at the start, which sets the scene but is never carried through.
A classy black comedy romance - By: S J Buck, 18 Aug 2007 
Nurse Betty is a film that isn't sure what it wants to be, but is still hugely entertaining. Renee Zellweger plays the title role, who after witnessing a murder goes on the road to meet & falll in love with a Doctor in a soap opera. The twist is that the trauma has affected her mind so she believes the soap opera character is a real person.
Of course it isn't as simple as that! Morgan Freeman & Chris Rock play two dodgy characters who are trying to track Betty down. Chris Rock is not an actor I rate at alll, but here with the always excellent Morgan Freeman he is watchable & the two actors work off each other very well. This is alll done with some style & reminded me certain parts of the Coen Brothers movies, with perhaps just a hint of Tarantino.
The only downside for me was the music soundtrack, which was a little too gushing & romantic. However in alll other respects this is a well constructed road movie that I throughly enjoyed & would happily recommend to anyone.
