ThiefHott Too much of everything

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

tfmiltz This movie is something you might expect if Freud and Hitchcock got together for an evening of drinking and writing.You never really do know what will happen next.Sybil comes to mind I suppose.The entire childhood is the Greenroom (Louise Fletcher Sybil "What happened in the green room Sybil").This movie could have gone many ways.It will not haunt you, but it will leave you in subtle shock I think at the margins of human experience. Maybe it erodes the margins - it dances on the edges of maps.In fact, they SHOULD have put in Dylan's My Back Pages - but it's probably best no anchor to reality is made in a soundtrack etc. After all this isn't Juno.All I know is the description said a train wreck changes a small mid western town unexpectedly.And I do say- that was an accurate assessment.a Clark bar anyone?

Mike B This is on the weird side of things. It's about a troubled man with a tortured upbringing who dresses as a woman every morning. He successfully hides this from the community until the day a railway accident comes barreling through his back-yard while his woman-side is hanging up the clothes. All the neighbors in the small town think it is his newly hidden wife. So new relationships ensue within the town. And the situation becomes rather tangled with his "wife" impersonations leading to conflicts of interests.It's a slow progression that fortunately never becomes over-wrought. The acting by Cilian Murphy in both roles is first rate. The ending is somewhat inconclusive and unbelievable - and that brought my rating down.

daggersineyes This is a surprisingly good movie that's well worth your time to watch. The story is OK, could've used a little fleshing out & judging by some of the negative reviews - maybe it needed to explain itself more. Although I think sometimes it's good to have movies that don't make it easy for the audience. The problem is, the audience don't support movies that are difficult so a perfectly good production often gets shoved aside (as this one did) in favor of more conventional straight-forward brain-candy.The characters needed a little more development and it lacked a lot of suspense that could have been introduced. BUT the direction was generally good, there was some lovely camera work & thoughtful framing throughout which resulted in a great evocation of mood and vaguely sinister under-tones (just wish they'd gone somewhere more sinister!!). The back-story was intriguing but they rushed through that when it might have been better to expand on it - certainly it would have introduced more thrills & creepiness. But even so, the story works well enough and is thought-provoking and even heart-warming at times.BUT the stand out in this movie is the acting, particularly by Cillian Murphy. Many people have already mentioned it was Oscar worthy and I'll add my voice to that opinion. I've never seen anything quite like it. I wish he'd been given a more gritty story to apply that amazing talent to in this movie. It was so close to getting there but just missed getting the edge it needed to make it a great movie. I was totally in love with Emma. She was portrayed so beautifully I was in her corner no matter what!! :)I also agree with many others that a lot of viewers missed the point and nuances of this movie so they thought - incorrectly - that there was nothing to it. There's too much reliance these days on a movie having some awesome "twist" and if it doesn't deliver said "awesome twist" it's "pointless" or boring. I'm not sure when "twists" became a prerequisite to being an interesting flick. Peacock has it's share of twists (more than one) but they are small and do not define the movie. They are there to move the story along not to be clever. Peacock is better thought of as a character study revolving around what happens when a perfectly & obsessively ordered (right down to the minute) but pretty much insane lifestyle suddenly has the rug pulled out from under it. Despite it's flaws this movie is a lot better than a large percentage of the stuff that ends up in wide theatre release and it's a crying shame this was just dumped to DVD without so much as a whisper.Watch it - if only to see the awesome performance of Cillian Murphy. Even most of the negative reviews acknowledge how amazing he was. Most of the points I've given this movie are there because of him.

cpeklay What to say that hasn't already been said very well about peacock? This movie chills me every time, murphy is extraordinary. I can't understand why this film was just buried? This is sundance gold! Any film festival should have just eaten this sh*t up. Yet very few know pf this movie. This is not a comparison, by any means. Just saying the last film that affected me so much was we need to talk about kevin (06/2012) which, if you haven't seen....... SEE NOW! OK. Back to peacock. Sarandon in wonderful in her go-get-em-girl, we-can-do-it way. Surprises came in the rest of the supporting cast, a few of which normally don't impress me much, the whole town seemed so real. I believed that they believed who she was. I believed they thought of them as a married couple. Murphy does such a fantastic job bringing both characters to life (yeah, split personality is done a lot, but this one's worth it) Here's a couple movies u should watch if you love peacock, just sending film ideas out there, like peacock, many of these are underseen etc...Hard candyPerfumeZombie strippers (i sh*t you not it's genius! Just give it sn hour and a half, thank me laterAn American crime (yikes!)Death to smoochyYeah, im random