Everything Everywhere All At Once is two hours nineteen minutes long, but should have been, could have been one hour shorter.

The premise is that every time we make a decision in life, a possible different decision results in our life in an alternate universe, that using some tricks allows us to access ourselves in that alternate universe. While the premise is interesting and clever the concept is lost in hyperbolic overkill. There's SO MANY alternate universes from the multitude of decisions we've made in life that the original reason for accessing ourselves in alternate universes is nearly lost. In many, if not most of the too many alternates, the CGI-ed fights where people are trying to kill the protagonist are too fast, too blurry and too long. (BTW, I really, as in REALLY HATE the overuse and excessive use of CGI in scenes! It's too cartoonish.)

There's two reasons I didn't give Everything Everywhere All At Once just one star.

Reason one, Jamie Lee Curtis nails her role as the frumpy, overweight, pot bellied (with belly button showing under her shirt) heartless IRS agent. I love the fact that this actress who starred in so many very glamorous roles had the self confidence to take this role.

Reason two, the movie has a sentimental, heart warming, meaningful and inspirational ending.

Everything Everywhere All At Once was suggested by our adult son and watched it with us after coming over for dinner, and my wife had heard from our other younger, but adult son, that it was a great movie and she wanted to see it. At the end of the movie adult son says, "Wasn't that a great movie, to which we both lied and replied yeah. But after he left, we both lamented what a horrible and way to long movie it was.

If you like a LOT of CGI almost meaningless, blurry scenes it may be for you, but discerning watchers . . . BEWARE!