Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

marielafleury While some people complain this movie is boring, I believe it is a really compelling story and includes very easy-to-understand explanations to Milgram's experiments (which I consider fascinating). It was not meant to be a super original or fast-paced movie, so I don't see how the "boring" adjective is fitting. Its aim was to describe what he had done and how it was interpreted and its impact on society. So yes, I recommend it for whoever is interested in his theories.

adonis98-743-186503 Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey by using electric shock. We follow Milgram, from meeting his wife Sasha through his controversial experiments that sparked public outcry. Just like with "The Stanford Prison Experiment" this is a film that suffers from a very dull script and will make viewers almost fell asleep and that is the bad because you have so many great actors in here but none of them got the material that they deserved. If you wanna watch a good film with the exact same plot go watch "The Experiment" and not "Experimenter"

runamokprods Intelligent, challenging, semi-experimental view of psychological scientist Stanley Milgram and his seminal early 60s experiment that proved most people would follow orders that went against all they believe in - and caused them great personal stress - even to the point of believing they were causing bodily harm or death, if they felt it was expected of them and they wouldn't be blamed.Almereyda, long one of our bravest and least conventional film-makers, uses his tendencies to break from traditional storytelling to his advantage here. He breaks our usual illusion of 'reality' in a movie with black and white projections as parts of sets, the main character addressing the camera, sometimes about events that haven't happened yet, and even a (very funny) literal 'elephant in the room'. These playful, Brechtian devices distance us and keep us from emotionally getting lost in the story in the way a traditional Hollywood bio-pic would have us do. But it serves to heighten key intellectual questions about Milgram and his work – which also manipulated reality, and implied a certain artificial distancing between Milgram and the human race.Like a film, Milgram's experiment manipulated people, told them stories, to get them to react a certain way, and Almereyda makes us ponder a lot of these uneasy connections between art and science.Not all of these cinematic gambits work, and sometimes ideas get repeated beyond effectiveness. But I'll take this kind of fresh, jarring approach to looking at a man and the ideas his work over a traditional, shallower Hollywood approach any day.

Anirban Santra I am not a critique. But I am interested to understand the justification of all the institutionalized activities around the globe which includes the infliction of pain to a different person, under a false sense of command and no-apparent responsibility. The work of this movie, is excellent and throws you into the deep abyss of the darkness of the human soul, where due to our education system and beliefs, we always tend to forget to question our action and just become mass followers. Well you can disagree as much as you want, but if you haven't done it, then you are not human, since human live in a society and you have to follow the unwritten rules, without question.I always wondered how people follow blindly and then create a false sense of justification saying he/she was unaware, or not responsible, or simply 'I was deceived'. Let them get a heart attack and my response to them would be that I am not responsible for your health.Please excuse the grammar but do not miss this movie. 10/10.