Review: The Cobbler

Adam Sandler stars in 'The Cobbler'.

There's something about Adam Sandler films that usually leaves no middle ground when it comes to liking them – you either love them (as proven by his box-office successes in the past) or hate them (as the consistently bad reviews have shown).

Once in a blue moon he’ll get to work with a respected filmmaker and his performance will get praised, as is the case with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love. But if you take a hard look at the movie, you’ll find he more or less played the same character he did in hits like Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison or The Waterboy. The only difference is that his trademark screen persona was used for tragic rather than comic purposes in it.