Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Katrina This film affected me on a deep visceral level. I saw this movie at the Seattle International Film Festival and would love to see it again. Robin Wright's performance captured the strength of openness and vulnerability. Hedda's question to William Hurt's character, "Do you love me enough yet?" was quite haunting. And to her mother, when she asked why Hedda hadn't told her about her pain (if I remember correctly), "because you aren't strong enough," poignantly portrays a soul that has been emotionally used and abused from a young age and learned to take on others' emotional needs at her own expense - especially a woman who has true empathy.

elshikh4 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!! Well .. now we can talk ..Despite my hatred for the shown type of human (Hedda Amerson/Robin Wright Penn) as a tenderhearted girl whom never turns to seek revenge on the man whom she loved even though he drove her to committing suicide (2 times !) as his first wife, and hit his second wife to the extent that he paralyzed her !!, and then hit his third wife till he killed her !!! And our very good-natured girl just can't even hate him a bit !??? Despite my hatred for that, I hated and hated and hated the way that this story had been told by! The movie tried to be as dissimilar as its main character, so the writer/director (Erin Dignam) didn't put this series of confessions (justifications for her absolute love) as a long sequences in the plot of a psychotherapy's movie but made such a drama with a sense of thrill by transporting it to the courtroom instead of the psychiatrist's room. Yet even by that way this very movie had no way to unite us with whatever it wanted to say, or consolidated its case by anything solid to be at the end a delicate yet fragile movie like its hero or should I say its anti-hero ?! Honestly nothing was cohesive ! The shots were too damn long, the rhythm was deadly slow, the important information came like a few parsimonious drops ! And I just doubt that no artiest in the world wants his audience to fall asleep in front of his work as this one successfully did ! Moreover the main character in herself as forgiveness in a human form was really cold provoker or not convincing. You'll find yourself screaming so many times while watching : this is masochism !.. And it's a crime.. you are the victim in it and the criminal.. so when you acquit such a mean killer and make him back to our society by this too soft, too weeping and too emotional witness then he'll do it again and again.. well lady.. this is a fatal man slayer or at least a disturbed sick person who looks like a loving kind of guy (which makes him more dangerous as a killer) but you're just too blinded by love to see that.. so this is not love.. this is an illness which means that this cute girl is needing help very fast just like her brutal sensitive love !Further than that, look at the character of the lawyer (K.D. Dietrickson/William Hurt) who seemed a good person from the start without even one thing which changes a bit in him at the very end, for better or for worse !? But that's nothing compared to the stupid final scene when he told the girl in great emotional condition : "I've learned from you .. a lot .. but I'll tell you about that .. Later" !!!! As for me this is a very weak scene ! and speaking of which let me tell you eagerly about those 2 dull scenes where she was swimming in the pool ! OH MY GOD.. That wasn't only boring but also a truly pedant piece of work like the movie wants to tell us visually that she is as pure & placid as this water !Over and above, you just find those idiots who applaud and glorify the movie as I dare them all to tell me whatever they learned from it or understood, and even if they could (which I doubt so much) let them be that objective once to tell me, or themselves, what are the defects of their beloved movie ?! The big result of the aforementioned was : a character that makes you ailing, a plot and a style which were both whether feeble to a crappy extent, or pedant to alleged extent, which would put you away from its true well-meaning or its noble message.P.S : the intro scene of (Sean Penn) as the pathetic image which we all turning into without the presence of loving affectionate and tolerant persons like (Hedda Amerson) among us.. that fine scene looked really independent away from the whole movie as the only true perfect thing here, making an ugly irony if you compared it to all what's after it.

rustle-rizz 'Loved' is not edge of the seat stuff. It is a grown-up film which examines the nature of love and infatuation. The script is beautifully crafted and provides insight into the machinations of it's individual characters. Robin Wright-Penn and William Hurt undergo a professional relationship which seems to promise something more. The question raised is about commitment and whether that commitment necessitates losing something in oneself. The language of the film is as much in the incidental actions and gestures as in the dialogue. William Hurt stands by the pool, fully clothed, he offers his hand to help R W-P out, she beckons him in. If that is too subtle for you, steer well clear. But, if nothing else, do catch the first five minutes for the brilliant Sean Penn cameo.

heedon If "Titanic" is what moves you, then skip "Loved." If you prefer slow-paced, thoughtful drama without special effects, noise or guns, where you have to put a lot of pieces together yourself, this is your movie. I don't believe that a movie is to be seen, half-digested and compartmentalized after one viewing, certainly not if it has any of the elements of subtle poignancy that this movie has. And because they are so good, I want more from writer-director, Erin Dignam and the lead actors, William Hurt and Robin Wright. I like looking at William Hurt and at Robin Wright even when they say nothing, when they struggle to find the right words. They can take all the time in the world, they are so impressive in their thoughtful solitude. Speak of a mismatched pair: a tall, dowdy lawyer of scholarly mien and a beautiful waif of athletic prowess. In this movie there is a chance to see if opposites attract after all. William Hurt and Robin Wright deliver flawless acting. He is a California prosecutor taking on a battered woman case, and Wright is the more than willing victim, the reluctant witness that has to be subpoenaed to testify. Imagine a sunny, naive, diffident, young California woman moving to New York City to get away from a first teen-age entanglement that leaves her damaged physically and emotionally. That's Wright character, Hedda. A one-time Olympic swimming contender, she returns to California for the prosecution of her former abusive boy-friend, who is wont to repeat his aggressive behaviour with others. Hurt is recruited to prosecute this difficult case, to end, or at least, to put a dent in this man's damage. If there are flaws in the film, they lie in no information being given about Wright's life in New York, and what it is that has hurt the prosecutor's past life and career. He seems to have lost his way but we don't know why. There is only so much reading between the lines one can do though it could be me that doesn't read well. Wright's character may be too naive to be believable, but on the other hand, it is called the battered spouse "syndrome." In the loose ends and in the space between thelines lie the beauty of this movie. Something unsaid may be happening between the prosecutor (Hurt) and his witness (Wright). Two lovable, damaged people may or may not be inching, reaching out to each other. Two near-fully realized characters are presented to us to make of them what we will because the writer-director won't give the store away. I prefer it that way. "Loved" is a compelling theatre piece, perhaps in the vein of an "Oleanna." In "Loved" the dark courtoom scenes are set within those of a bright, sunshiny Santa Monica and Redondo Beach. You may feel like walking around Santa Monica after when the movie ends. I do. Adventure seekers, romance novel readers and fans of "Godfather 15; 16; 17," ad nauseum, need not apply.