VeteranLight
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
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.
Mathilde the Guild
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Richard Dominguez
In The Tradition Of Movies Like Crash, Magnolia (A Brilliant Movie), Babel. Pulp Fiction We Follow 4 Different Stories As They Slowly Weave Together Becoming In The End One Story ... Ryan Phillippe Is A Detective Seeking Justice For A Dead 6 Year Old Girl ... Bernard Hill A Worried Father Looking For His Lost Son ... Sam Riley A Man Looking To Replace The Love He Has Lost ... Eva Green An Artist That Suffers Through Multiple Suicide Attempts For Her Art ... These 4 Lives Are Thrown Together In What Appears To Be A Perfect Religious Society ... Like The Movies This One Imitates This Is A Brilliant Story That Reminds Us That As Large As The World Is It Is Very Tiny In The Scope Of All Things ... We Are not Alone, We Live, Suffer, Laugh, Cry, Rejoice, Etc .. Together ... The Writing Is Excellent As Well As The Acting ... Special Credit To Gerald McMorrow's Direction, His Ability To Keep Such A Huge Story In Front Of The Camera From Beginning To End Was Amazing ... Also It Would Be Wrong To Not Mention Those Who Handled The Production Design, Art Direction, Set Decoration And Costume Design ... Original And Enticing This Is Not A Movie To Be Missed ... In A World Gone Mad Hope Survives
virindra
My wife knows I like superhero movies and movies like the matrix and Donnie Darko. Put all those facts together, and seeing the cover of Franklyn in the store, and she had all the reasons to buy this movie.At first I thought, maybe this could be something. But on the other hand, if it would have been something, why is this movie not so known? The movie begins with David's fantasy, where he's the Preest. Now here's something bothering me. Ryan Phillippe's performance of Jonathan Preest was very similar to Jackie Earle Haley's performance of Rorschach. I can't say that Ryan P. is the copycat, because Franklyn is from 2008 and Watchmen is from 2009.So I follow the story further, with Eva Green and her disturbing relationship with her mother and her suicide attempts to make a projects. This was all new for me, but I stayed open minded. But even then I did not like this performance of Eva Green and I could not know why.So we walk to the third character Milo with his imaginary girlfriend from the past. Now this character is more simple and easier to follow, or is that deceiving? Did Eva Green just fail to put up the right performance for the job? And at the end all fits in; There was a great story to tell, the translation to film was just boring. Acting was boring. It could have had more drama. With a story with so many depths you have to have actors and actresses who can act with depths. With deeper emotions. And that was not there in this movie.Sometimes when you write a book, or make a movie, you must think if you are ready for it. And of course it's worth to risk the jump, but in this case it would have been better if the story would have waited a few more years to come to the movies. Nolan waited many years to bring out Inception, and he did a very, very good job.Now I have to disagree BBC5 live; this movie was not fantastic and wasn't even close to The Matrix and Donnie Darko. It could have been though.
patwgiles
Billed as having a story from parallel worlds that collide. Not so, the utterly fantastic (and I believe should have been a film on it's own) world of Meanwhile City resides solely in the heavily delusional mind of the "central" character. The characters Milo and Emilia have almost no bearing on the films core story, they only become relevant near the end when they become "innocent bystanders" in the single-sided pseudo-conflict between the characters David and his father Peter.I believe that if Franklyn had been a story of two parallel worlds that crossed paths, and not simply a real world and a delusional world, then it could have been a truly great film.
Adrienne Parrott
When sitting watching Franklyn for the first time the other week, the main question running through my mind was: "why wasn't this film publicised more?"For a small British Indie film, with a relatively small budget of £6million, Gerald McMorrow was able to achieve an astounding motion picture. The plot twists and turns in every direction, all the while making you think. As a big fan of the work of Richard Kelly, the logic involved around the plot line really captivated me. Even the scores created to accompany the film by Joby Talbot, captured the essence of the film perfectly and emphasised the intensity and the emotions in every scene.This is definitely a film to watch!
