Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Kamila Bell 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.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

josesolismusic-223-295527 The movie director Chuky Namanera, must be a total ignoramus of piano classical music. A concert pianist will NEVER use a score to play a concert. If by any reason he would ever need to do anything close to that, he would have someone to turn the pages. The piano would NEVER be in the back of the orchestra, even if elevated. The pianist would NEVER exit the stage until the piece is complete. The audience do not clap between movements. The conductor should've started speaking before the applause. The conductor of a classical orchestra will make absolutely certain he would know how to pronounce Bösendorfer correctly. Instead of violating these traditions, the movie could've used them. For example the impossibility of leaving the stage. The proximity of the pianist to the other people. They could've had a whole audience captured instead of just the pianist. This movie was done for people who have no clue about classical music. Shame.

Michael Ledo Tom (Elijah Wood) is married to movie star Emma (Kerry Bishé). They are the annoying type of people who walk around with a phone in their ear. In Florida it is almost legal to kill them. He "choked" the last time he played the piano...five years ago. He flies to Chicago (from London?) changes in a limo on the way to the concert hall, goes on stage with an orchestra he hasn't played or practiced with in five years and is afraid of choking. Seriously? I can't brush my teeth right after a good jet lag.Now as he starts to play, he gets the message that if he misses a note, he dies...or Emma dies. Neither one was likeable and this was the scenario I was hoping for. So after 20 minutes, I kept wondering, "Is this going to be the whole movie?" 40 minutes go by and this is still the freaking film. At 55 minutes we get a clue as to why this was going on. I really didn't care at this point, I just wanted to see Tom and Emma die a horrible death for talking on their cell phones all the time.How long is John Cusack on the screen? Don't ask.I don't understand the rave reviews. It doesn't keep you on the edge of your seat. A boring "thriller."

inforaza Grand Piano is supposed to be a psychological thriller – but it falls flat! This 1 hr 20 minutes film looked like a Showreel for some students of film-making. I suspect Eugenio Mira made this (test) film to hone his own skills to make something better in future. LOL! In the film, there is an embedded lock in the piano which if released would yield a key to a safe deposit box containing the late pianist Patrick Godureaux's disappeared fortune. The villain himself is the locksmith who worked with Godureaux to construct the mechanism.This is truly a convoluted idea! Why'd Patrick construct this mechanism, in the first place? What is the benefit of this hopelessly contrived technique to hide the key to the safe deposit box? When he dies who is supposed to find the key? One who can play "La Cinquette" perfectly (like Elijah Wood, a student of Patrick)? Does this mean whoever plays La Cinquette well becomes the rightful owner of the fortune? How hilarious! It'd have been credible had Patrick willed away the fortune to Elijah Wood through that key and no one is aware of this (not even Elijah) except a few trustworthy people. But the villain somehow becomes aware of this secret key.Coming back the film, it is well-paced & well-cinematographed no doubt - but DOES NOT offer any tangible thrill and suspense at all. You can easily ignore it without feeling an iota of guilt, unless you sincerely want to check things out for yourself.By the way, the movie ends in a very strange way! Elijah plays the damaged Piano and the key falls out of the Piano and then the credits starts scrolling.How am I supposed to react to this? Fall out of my chair? If ever you want to see an UNCONVINCING ending then watch Grand Piano.

Alex Cosma Now I am a classical music lover and also play piano. I also like John and Elijah as actors so naturally, after seeing this trailer, I was rather excited about it! I mean, what could be better than combining one of the lead character from one of my all-time movie trilogies (Lord of the Rings) with a great talent such as Johns and classical music? Boy I was wrong...The plot was so terribly weak even from the get-go. You didn't understand what the hell was going on, whether or not the characters had any idea what was going on (which was even worse) and whether you're going to witness a huge fail on the main character's part or a huge success. Some of these things got clear at about the middle of the movie but everything else was just such a pain!Honestly, I don't go to movies expecting realism, especially not those made in Hollywood of course, however, when touching a subject like "classical music" with clear references to ACTUAL composers (like Rachmaninoff - which is mentioned once in the movie), you'd expect to see some degree of realism, right? I mean, take a look at awesome movies like Le Concert or Shine. They tackled the subject of classical music extremely well and I enjoyed them - a lot! However the bad depiction of what a difficult piece should even sound like and the actual charade which the whole concert represented was painful to watch (and hear). Seeing Elijah walk on and off that stage and seeing the presumably 'educated' crowd not giving almost a single s*it about it, and the so called conductor - oh yea, don't let me get started on that - being at complete ease when seeing the soloist walk off the stage for 3 minutes mid-concert *SIGH, taking a deep breath* ... is not something I'd expect from such a movie.In the end, I was happy it only lasted about 1 hour and 10 minutes, even though they seemed painful, I think this was the only good thing about the movie. Pity, it could have been better.