a someone who have never condescend adam sandler in term of talent and as be do to him and many comic actor like him and i walk in to reign over me expect a great film and not simply because of his presence in the movie but because i think that it look very good overall . even someone who already think that sandler could deliver an effective dramatic performance be write here that i be surprise at how fantastic he be in it . he will make you weep and especially in his purposefully sudden and unexpected monologue . what amaze about his role be that it a character it hard to say we have see before . we have see many emotionally scarred character and many mentally retarded people and many loner and many passionate self center artist and but sandler charlie fineman be none of these . he may have a taste of each of them in some way and but his character be truly unpredictable and completely individual . it a joy for the audience to be draw in emotionally by him and be tug every which way by someone whose problem and mindset and and provocation be completely different from most character like him . don cheadle delivers an interesting performance on a completely different level . he be every man . he be the most normal possible person in the world and so much so that you will hardly find many character like his either and or at least any that be play the way he play alan johnson and whose name be even find on the assembly line . cheadle be brilliant in that he be funny and jolting and smart and and stupid the way so many normal people be . the rest of the cast be populate by actor and actress who have hardly do anything in awhile in small but quite colorful role . jada pinkett smith be the overly refine upper middle class wife and donald sutherland be the impatient but surprising judge and robert klein be sandler desensitized father in law . mike binder script be quite brilliant because it say something quite profound about the wonder of communication in all of it guise . it much more subtle than and say and babel and and have a much more close to home ideal . the camera be only interested in the reality of it image a oppose to the mere style . this film strike me a sort of a sendback to the kitchen sink style of the 1970s . cinematography be grainy and unfastened and but that be it charm . it wasn not about attract u to the camera itself and the gloss that would have dilute it story with such . the music and which play a major role in the film and and it title and be very powerful . near the beginning and you feel like youre in for another about schmidt or little miss sunshine sort of soundtrack and but you soon realize youre in for more than that . in fact and the film be pack with lot of music that stimulate a lot of the most emotional scene . reign over me be a major statement not only for society but also for film itself . it go to show that even the director of blankman be capable of wonder .