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

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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

James We live in a hideous world in which the top 8 richest people are richer than HALF of the ENTIRE human population. In California, these disparities may not be quite so great, but they are pretty great, and ordinary-ish school kids there find themselves in the incongruous situation of studying as pupils literally a few miles from the homes of music- and film-industry icons known from stage and screen (no matter how messed up their lives may be), and enjoying both wealth and celebrity (and even a measure of real influence). In those circumstances, it actually seems surprising how rarely "something has to give"In Sofia Coppola's 2013 film "The Bling Ring" something does indeed give, as leading characters still in (nothing-special) education decide that they are going to help themselves to a bit of the wealth, the bling, that the celebrities have at their disposal; and for some time at least that proves trivially easy to achieve.I came to "The Bling Ring" entirely by chance, not quite from the start, but at the moment when Marc Hall (played by Israel Broussard) first arrives at the Indian Hills High School. I therefore lacked background, and did not realise until later that this film was in essence a rendition of a true-life 2008-2009 story. The discovery changed many of my perspectives in an interesting way, given the film's tightrope-walk above total moral relativism, indeed decadence which represents a dilemma I only add to by reporting on the above disparities in American and world society that one cannot help thinking on as one watches, stunned with near-disbelief as the film unfolds. If such background facts can be seen in anyway to justify a wanton, judgment-free crime spree (with $3M in takings in the real-life case), how long is it before society - or at least society as we know it - collapses?Fair enough, flash-forwards make it clear regularly enough that our protagonists get their punishment and comeuppances soon enough in various different ways; but it's hard to resist the impression that their exploits are being praised - and if we are really not that far from Robin Hood here, how can that come as a surprise? Far more troubling even than the crime, though, are the ROUTINE drugs and smoking and alcohol; as well as the lack of discipline and ad hoc nature and don't-really-give-a-damn-about-anything and anyway-it's-consequence-free lifestyle of the kids protrayed here. Scarier still is the way that I can vaguely, ever-so-slightly, understand how they might (be persuaded to) behave that way.Shocking, in fact. Hence the EXTREMELY subversive nature of this film.A further frustrating (actually jealousy-inspiring) aspect is how misfit Marc, who comes to something of a school for msifits, is actually adopted, allowed to fit in supremely well - with what is extreme speed - by Rebecca (Katie Chang), who rapidly introduces him to a wider group of teen females up to and including Nicki Moore, whose portrayal by a 23-year-old Emma Watson makes her - with hindsight - the most famous face of all here. Distant memories of similar cases from one's own schooldays suggest that this ostensibly dream circumstance for a schoolboy can only be accounted for by Marc's being gay, but the section of the film I saw did not make this especially clear, hence one's inclination to scream "what are you waiting for?" at the screen!Ultimately, whether one likes it or not, "The Bling Ring" is a film that says much about the one heck of a mess our tech-savvy, celebrity-obsessed, morally-uncertain, disparity-ridden society has got itself into. The fact that this is a true story may detract from that a bit, in fact, but not too much. As an adult I am fit/enfranchised/experienced/world-weary enough to make the above statement, can condemn the film and its makers for what they say or fail to say, but also find myself uttering the aforementioned "who can be surprised?" remark. On the other hand, as a father of somebody about the age of the protagonists at the time the film was made, I would have moved heaven and earth to stop that person watching this film when it hit the cinemas. So is this a teen flick, or one for seasoned and sensible adults?My attitude surely amounts to hypocrisy, but then that is only the hallmark of the times we live in.

SquigglyCrunch The Bling Ring follows a group of young women (and some random guy) as they realize how easy it is to sneak into celebrity's homes and steal stuff, so that's what they do. On occasion the movie managed to pull off some decent directing. There were a few takes that were of a decent length, and I think that somewhere in this mess of a film was a good director somehow held back. The rest of the movie is complete trash. I absolutely hated every minute of this film. By the 9-minute mark I was done. Yes, I even checked to see how quick it was. Thankfully, it was only 90 minutes long. My breaking point for this movie came as soon as I realized how bad of an actor that Israel Broussard is, which is, like I said, at the 9-minute mark. He was just awful, reading his lines with so little of anything that it just made it hard to watch. And even without him, the other acting was super mediocre. Most of these actresses seemed to have been hired for their looks and not their abilities, because most of them were made slightly more tolerable by how pretty they were. But even then, their characters were so unlikable that they kind of ceased to even be pretty and instead looked stuck-up and frustrating, thus creating a downward spiral for all of them. Bad characters. Moving on to the editing. Most of the time I don't even notice film editing, but here it's so blatantly bad. There's nothing special about it, so it only adds fuel to the garbage fire of a film that this already is. The writing is just awful. The dialogue is boring and uninteresting, but moreover the presentation of the story is so incredibly redundant. It's just a detailed montage of the same scenes over and over. They go to a house, steal stuff while complaining about clothes and saying 'oh my gosh, chill out' in the most frustratingly white girl-ish way possible, then get drunk and high and dance at parties to bad music, and occasionally go home. There's nothing interesting happening, there's no interesting characters or plot, and it just sucks. And it's not even like there's a level of suspense as to whether these characters are going to get caught. Of course they get caught, they're a bunch of idiot teens whom we've seen in security footage multiple times throughout it. There's another redundant bit, security footage shots. We see it over and over again. "We get it, the girls were caught on camera." Overall The Bling Ring is awful. I ended up taking a 20 minute break towards the end simply because of how boring and uninteresting it was, then later regretting that break as I realized that I could've been done the movie sooner than when I had actually finished it. It's just so poorly written, poorly acted, and repetitive. I actually like some of these actors, but these were roles made for nobody. Nobody should have played these characters, because that would've meant that this movie would've never been made. In the end I wouldn't hesitate to recommend that you burn this one, or at the very least spare yourself the trouble of seeing it.

John Neckerman This movie is really boring. Acting overall is real mediocre. 95% of the lines are said like they are reading them for the first time. Most of the shots feel like they're just trying to take up as much time as they can without having any relevancy. A lot of the scenes were probably supposed to be written like this, but it doesn't make a good movie in any way, shape, or form. I can really only watch a bunch of girls break into Paris Hilton's house so many times before I go insane. I'm pretty sure there was a 2 minute scene of the male lead just smoking weed and dancing in nightvision. Had nothing to do with anything. The whole movie also pivots on the plot line that A-list celebrities just leave their front doors unlocked and don't notice when a ton of their stuff goes missing. Pretty idiotic

s-18950 such a waste of time. nothing happens .just a bunch of teenagers robes celebrities houses and finally get arrested. not comedy, drama just nothing!i really feel sorry for the efforts of the people who made this movie. now am really wondering why do i have to write 10 lines for my comment to be posted cause i really feel that my point is clear. okay i was just trying to give a piece of advice so people don't waste your time on this movie . really guys 10 lines hahaha ................. ............... ... ......... .............. ....................................... hhjjjjj.......m...mm........ bbbuuuuuuuu. ..........................