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The People's Reviews
Rating:
5 ratings and 5 reviews
Certainly not uplifting, but awesome.
Pretty dark, in that each character is despicable in their own way. But very layered and textured and rich and all those words.
An intriguing watch, recommended.
What a depressing film
This movie has been placed firmly in my 5 worst movies category, right alongside Gangs of New York. It was so bad I had to comment. The acting from Philip Seymour Hoffman, Albert Finney and Ethan Hawke was amazing. Their characters are absolutely disgusting in very different (and quite cliche) ways. They are everything that is horrible about humanity, and they acted disgusting so well.
As a discussion on families being destroyed by person absolute desire for self interest, this movie is a great success. But frankly, why would you want to watch that? Watch the news.
The bits in the movie that drew me in because the acting from Hoffman were so good, were absolutely destroyed by Melissa Tomei's terrible acting and horribly thought out character.
Ultimately I found this movie boring, disgusting and the characters really hard to relate to. I walked out feeling really depressed. If you are going to watch it, make sure you have the Care Bears movie all ready to go afterwards.
Pretty impressive performances
by Hoffman,Hawke and Albert Finney. But all a bit dark, tho it did hold your attention.
dark and disturbing
can't give away anything about the story but this one you won't forget. Sydney Lumet has always been great in this genre but this must come out at the top. Finney, Hoffman and Hawke are an amazinging family combo with a very dirty story to tell. I'd easily see again
so far the worst movie I have ever seen
not much to say.
incredibly constructed acting (Hoffman stands out)
really badly thought and developed script - no relation between events, or events that have no meaning in the overall story.
1990s tv series shooting and music (please listen to it!)
the girl (whose name I don't know)...she is just a piss taking that made me think at some point that the whole movie was a giant parody of itself..which for a second made me believe it was genius..until i realized that there was no purposefullness in her cheasy expressions
sorry..i really dont understand how can you like it. maybe because i'm italian.....
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