SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Micitype Pretty Good

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Elena Shtefan Why some people think that nothing happens in this movie, it's about nothing? At first glance - right, nothing happens, just an ordinary day routine, just a guy stole a camera… But please look inside the film; look deep into the heroes' souls! You'll see a hell, struggle, pain,flight, dying love.. All the action takes place inside a man, the movie is about the transformation of human soul.The camera gave them possibility to look at themselves the other way round. Confession allowed to take the hidden pain out….. and the process of catharsis starts. John's question "and what you really are?" – culmination point of the film, it's main idea. Everybody should ask himself once "What I am? Why I am? What's the essence of my life?" And Violet's reaction, one drop of tear, give us a hope that these people are not the lost generation. A very dramatic film, an extremely realistic! If not the famous actors I would take it as documentary. Its monotony fascinates. A Zen film. not for everyone. An excellent acting!! My great thanks to film creators for this job!

Amar Muammar WARNING SPOILER!The story follows John (Keanu Reeves) and his beautiful lunatics, Violet and Mia. one day, John stolen a camcorder from the cowboy festival. after that scene, he began to filming everything he saw and recorded his poor life and his lunatics girlfriends.generation Um... is very confusing plotted. like edited by amateur. the camera movement is very absurd an amateur. the acting? don't hope to much even there's Keanu Reeves with in it. he acting was very bad! Bojana Novakovic and Adelaide Clemens not playing as well their characters. I've seen lot of Keanu Reeves films. but this one is very bad! Lucky you don't watch it yet.Overall. generation Um... is a horrible film filled with bad acting, directing, cheesy, bad camera movement, terrific editing and many more!

bob-rutzel-1 John (Keanu Reeves) is a driver in New York City for an Escort Service and he takes his two escorts (read hookers) Mia (Adelalide Clemens) and Violet (Bojana Novakovic) where they need to go when the time is right. All three are listless, aimless with no energy or ambition to change their lives. That is, until John steals a camcorder to record events around town and then he focuses on Mia and Violet. And, this is when the girls open up and try to outdo each other with sad stories of their upbringing. So you see the name Keanu Reeves in a new movie and you run to it. And, you watch, then you become disappointed. Really disappointed. Bummer. We watch these three for one day in NYC. The title is misleading. I would rename it "Stuck" because that's what these three represent. Stuck in life with no plan or ambition to go beyond the dreary lives they are currently leading. John says it best: It's really bad when you become the bigger disappointment to yourself than the disappointment your parents feel (I am paraphrasing here). This day is John's birthday and he gets a card and a check ($75) from his father. He puts the card in a drawer like he wants to forget he got it. He won't answer calls from his mother. Like he said, he is a bigger disappointment to himself and is shamed, embarrassed but in low key (doesn't get upset or violent).When John uses the camera we hope things will pick up and maybe something will happen and lead to a brighter future for them. Sadly, no. This doesn't happen. In fact nothing happens the rest of the way. Bummer, again. However, some may see this as psychological drama and good for them. I want a story: a beginning, a middle and an ending with a few good lines along the way and yes, I waited for Keanu to say, "whoa" like he used to in some movies. He is very good at that. Didn't happen. So what holds us? Well, the girls are pretty, very photogenic but that's it. Their growing-up stories are kind of shocking, but not shocking enough to get them out of their funk. We keep thinking John will use the girls and the stories to advance careers and get them out of hooking. Sadly, no. This doesn't happen. The camcorder is just the prop of the day and no more. We wait - in vain - for things to get better. Doesn't happen. Near the end of the movie is when we learn that John is a driver for an Escort service and the girls are really hookers. Up to that point we kept asking ourselves what is the connection among these three. That consumed most of our thinking for most of the movie and it was like a little puzzle going nowhere while waiting for something good to happen. However, for what is presented, the acting is very good once Violet stops yelling out her conversations. Her voice was like a gun going off near your ears and you jump a little. Okay, a lot.So…….um……whoa, this is not what you think it will be. Bummer. I wasn't going to do a review on this, but I decided you needed to know just in case you decided to run to this Keanu Reeves movie. (4/10)Violence: No. Sex: Yes.. Nudity: Yes, briefly. Drug Use: Yes. A BJ: Yes, Violet services John early in the movie.Language: Yes, but not much.

khairulza After watching Generation Um for the 4th or 5th time, I finally figured why I enjoyed this film so much - because it felt relevant.Not that I sniff cocaine or I hang out with two beautiful girls in their apartment; but relevant with their feelings of loneliness, suffering, and existential crisis (also perhaps most important for a mid 20s - being broke).It was crazy how I could be fascinated with a close-up shot of Keanu eating a cupcake, but that was exactly what Mark Mann has done.The camera work was to be praised too, all the vibrant colors of New York, even until all the odd decors in the house. Felt like I was traveling there through Keanu's camera.'Stalking' the characters for a day made me feel like wanting to know them more, their stories and struggles, how did they became who they were then. I felt like sitting in one of their conversations, not necessarily to participate, but merely to watch and be empty of worries, even just for a little while.