Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Catangro
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Brainsbell
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Kaydan Christian
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
foipok
4.3 is so unfair! Urban ppl nowadays are so impatient. I started watching without any knowledge about this film - not even the genre. If you follow the plot without doubting the events in the film, you will be granted a treasure, as in the end, all the pieces stand in a perfect order. It might be a bit too slow, sometimes hard to follow, but still it is a fine, beautiful work of art, imo.
gcohen6
Let me stat by saying I really like Keanu Reeves. Most of his movies are very entertaining and have a relatively simple plot. There's good guys and there's bad guys. This movie ain't that. This movie does keep with a familiar theme though, angels, devils, heaven, hell, and of course, wickedness. But the problem is that it is a story told in a very unsatisfying manner. If you walk away, after seeing this movie, with a satisfied feeling, you are a very strange person. I'm tempted to give it 2 stars, because of the feeling of emptiness when the movie ended. But the actors did a credible job at telling the tale. The production values are good and the movie did fit into a certain genre, it's just that I felt worse for seeing it. If you love Keanu, you'll stick with it. But for me, I need to rewatch the John Wick flicks. Maybe a couple of times. Just to reset my head.
sandpmason99
It seems most folk didn't like the film for its weirdness! I agree with most views actually, especially the stories that run supposedly parallel with each other. There are two central story lines that merge, Keanu's detective trying to find the truth about his partners murder, and a young girl who see's visions, is in love with a soldier out in Iraq and appears caring and happy! There is a few other story lines that don't really add to the film in my view, the gangster, the tramp, the affair with the deceased's wife and the visions! They are a distraction from what is essentially a tragic story of childhood abuse and repression. Take out these useless bits and the film is interesting but inconclusive. I liked it, it made me think about it afterwards and I didn't want my hour and 40 back!
krocheav
Given a stylish look by cinematographer Trevor Frost - along with a pensively down beat pace by New York born writer/director Gee Malik Linton, this movie seems at odds with itself. Linton disowned the finished picture following heavy editing alterations by the distributor. It seems we may never know who committed the biggest crime - the distributor, writer or director? Whoever it was nothing was gained, as it lost out big time. Lovely Cuban born Ana De Armas works hard in her difficult role of delusional child-care worker - with Keanu Reeves suitably restrained as a tough detective investigating his partners hidden past and brutal death.There are some genuinely intriguing moments (even haunting) but as the story unfolds it all becomes just too ugly. There's also far too many nasty sub-plots (all running simultaneously) to allow the average viewer to generate a great deal of focused interest. Would it have been any better if not interfered with? difficult to say but somehow, with one too many convoluted situations I don't assume so.Talented Cuban composer Carlos Jose Alvarez creates an evocative mood by using a female voice performing a mystical song without words, nice.Overall: If your taste runs towards confusing plot lines that may (or may not) all fall into place it might hold your interest - otherwise, unpleasant and ultimately disappointing.
