The movie breaks down human emotions into four cornerstones; Happiness (Forest Whitaker), Pleasure (Brendan Fraser), Sorrow (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and Love (Kevin Bacon). Meek bank clerk Happiness overhears 3 co-workers in the bathroom about a fixed horse race named Butterfly. He's fascinated by butterflies and bets $50k on the horse borrowing from gangster Fingers (Andy Garcia). The horse goes down in an accident. Fingers threatens to take his fingers if he doesn't pay in 2 weeks. Pleasure is his mysterious bank customer who breaks into his house and gives him a gun. He uses the gun to rob his bank and is killed. Pleasure is collecting for Fingers with Fingers' loud-mouth nephew Tony (Emile Hirsch) as his new partner. He has a special ability to get glimpses of other people's future. Fingers just got the management contract for Sorrow (stage name Trista) and asks him to look after her. Tony gets into a fight and Pleasure is severely beaten. He is brought into a hospital treated by Love. Love is trying to save his unrequited love Gina (Julie Delpy) who needs a rare blood type. She married his best friend Henry (Clark Gregg).There are a lot of great actors struggling to find their way in a disjointed story. The rotation of the various characters leaves the movie without much rooting interest. There are too many problems with this movie and Jieho Lee's directions don't have enough life. The story is too calculated and Andy Garcia is forced to overact too much. When Brendan Fraser's character dies, the movie loses the most compelling point. There's a nice wrap to the various story threads but I lost interest by then.

Did these actors owe someone money, or was this just an effort to add more connections to the Kevin Bacon game? Apparently you have to write 10 lines to submit a review. So now in order to save you from this movie, I am going to keep writing. However I don't really need ten lines to tell you just how bad this movie is. As I type these actors are spewing some of the worst written lines of any movie I've ever seen. I should stop watching it, but who can stop watching a train wreck. It looks like I still have a few more lines to type, so I guess I have to keep going. Maybe I should just type lines from the movie so you can read how bad they are. It says this is the first time directing for this director. Hopefully it is also his last. I don't mean to be so negative, but IMDb says I have to write ten lines and I certainly can't say anything good about this movie. Well, OK! SMG looks good, but then she always does. There, now I said something nice. Did I mention this is a bad movie?

Surely, the writers and director of this film know how to grab your attention and this film is quite perfect if you look for entertainment and some good messages to your life. On the same steps of "Crash" and other multi-plot films "The Air I Breathe" gives us four characters (named after constant elements in our lives) who are connected in risky and unusual events trying to solve their problems, break out their anxiety and their empty lives, searching for a good purpose or just trying to survive in the best possible way. They are Happinness (Forest Whitaker), Sorrow (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Love (Kevin Bacon) and Pleasure (Brendan Fraser) but we can't positively say they really represent these values or look for them (but I guess we all do, in a way). They're totally different from each other, always bumping at each other in some way but what makes them equal is the wish to make their existence in this life something of worth.I really enjoy films like this specially if they're well made. Despite the narration of some of the main characters, showing their backgrounds and their motivations, the script never exposes itself so much in giving its meaning so easily; there is a meaning, a sense and it is placed underneath all those thrilling scenes which means that audiences are treated with decency, we can all get what the film is trying to do. "The Air I Breathe" tries to prove that feelings and sensations are more important than money but the latter overcomes (and more appealing than) the other. Take a look at Fingers (played by Andy Garcia), the fifth element, completely out of order, and the only thing he wants is to make money and more money while the others are more concerned about finding their way in life. Somehow, they all end up crossing the path of Fingers, this dangerous gangster, who does everything he wants regardless of consequences even if he has to kill a friend. Despite what you might thing about the destines of all the characters compared to Fingers destiny, they all end up better than he. They share a quiet and brief momentum of realization, fulfilled of everything even that most of them suffered horrors to get there, they cried and cried and he, who most of the time is laughing and being a dominant personality of any situation, seems to never reach this state of mind. No, it's not a completely drama, there's plenty of room for action and thrilling moments, and also lots of undeserving exaggerated sequences as well (why they always have to include ridiculous accidents in hyper linked films like these? Only the characters encounters should be accidental rather than having someone run over by a car. But the one with the snake was very effective and surprising, specially what the editor made with the scene). It has its flaws, its weak moments and lots of absurd but the final result is a very good film, with good performances from the cast (which also includes Emile Hirsch, Clark Gregg, Julie Delpy and Kelly Hu) and it won't disappoint anyone who enjoys good stories where all the dots are perfectly connected at the ending. 9/10

I really didn't know what to expect from this movie, never even heard of the director. But decided to check the movie out because of the casting and I must say it's a decent movie about the converging of destinies. And if you like movies that has something to do with the converging of destinies will probably enjoy this movie and there is four segments in this one. Some people claim this movie is a copy of "Pulp Fiction" I don't really think that is the case and the cross thread story line works pretty well although there really isn't much character development in each segment. Although the fast pacing can be a good thing cause it really doesn't get boring for the most part. The screenplay is the main negative aspect of this movie, it just all seemed like a dream because it just feels silly at times. It's a ambitious movie but it just doesn't feel like it got the job done right at times as well. The acting is done really well though even if few stood out more than the other, the script is decent so all in all it's worth checking out but nothing really breathtaking. The ending isn't amazing, but satisfying.6.9/10