Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

xcforeverboy2772 About the disconnect between parents and kids, our true desires and what we choose to do in life, about being so caught up and afraid that we ignore everything except what we want to see and hear. This movie uses a video game character that aptly describes the feelings, a kid who got his head cut off but came back to life and is neither alive, nor dead. The main character longs for his father's acknowledgement and acceptance so he does whatever his father asks him to, the father hungers for importance so he writes a book about his son's problems and ignores his family, the mother wanted to be loved and accepted so she sells veggie vitamins looking for a family who will cherish her...It's about the solution being right in front of our face but instead of reaching out fulfilling our true desires we find some tepid remedy ignoring the reality of things as they slowly build and not seeing it until everything explodes...about listless entertainment and never knowing satisfying pleasure. This tale is expertly woven to describe a facet of the American suburbia...For me, only the end leaves us unsatisfied and wanting. So I can't help to ask if the film is really coherent in it's message. Anyways, if you liked American Beauty, or Donnie Darko, or Wristcutters: a love story...watch this film!!

rex-wms I almost turned this off after 40 minutes but decided to stick it out in case it developed some semblance of a story line. It didn't.Knowing where to begin listing what's wrong with this film is challenging since there's so much ground to cover. But lack of originality is as good a place as any. The movie tries to cross American Beauty with Donnie Darko and pass the result off as fresh. But it fails from the get go and comes off as a contrived nervous breakdown.It seems the writer figured those successful movies could be replicated by following a simplistic formula. Just make every character goofy and unbelievable, throw in a handful of disjointed story lines and outrageous dialog, script in a few preposterous sexual situations, add a smattering of science fiction or hallucinations (not sure which), show "egdy" (read: absurdly excessive) drug use and dealing, include a suicide and some attempted murder, and drop f-bombs all over and there, you have a "profound" movie nobody will admit is incomprehensible.The film does not fit in any genre, but this is achieved through deliberate awkwardness. See! It's arty because you don't know how to react, and you don't know how to react because we've injected random, pointless contradictions. Perhaps this movie does fit into a genre, though: it's a disaster film. D-.

zachd009 I had the opportunity to see this film before it was released at a special screening. It was a benefit from my film course at college. Anyways none of knew what to expect, so we all went in completely blind to the what it was about. Afterwards one of the people from the studio interviewed us. I'll tell you what i told him: it was very thought provoking, had a very good cast, and was directed well. The story was great. It was very "Donnie Darko-Esquire" Since i saw it me and my girlfriend have watched it, everyone i play it for loves it. Great film! Most people love the story. There are however some un-answered questions much like the latter fllm mentioned. But again it is very thought provoking!

strydomfred It's been a while since a movie has offered me as many special moments of beauty and truth. While the film as been condemned by some critics and viewers as trite, contrived, pretentious garbage, I sense there is an underlying irony to these assertions - only pretentious people take pride in convicting art as pretentious. There are lessons to be learnt from this film, if only you drop your own pretences and accept that the message in this film is not only relevant, but challenging and on the whole, enlightening. It's easy to denounce Ralph Fiennes character as overcooked pretentious fluff, if you don't take a moment to really accept the actions of his character and learn some real and valuable lessons about observing the world in the way its meant to be observed, without fear or shame. The scene where Justin Chatwin's character gets hit by a car and spots a plane flying overhead is not only amusing, but deeply tragic - essentially it's about a kid so enslaved by his insecurities he loses his dream, his ambition, his one love. There are so many of these thought-provoking moments that i could go on all day, but at the end of the day, this film is an ode to enlightenment and a revelation that regardless of the questionability of our demeanor, we are all simply victims of the civilised world and undeserved of judgement or condemnation.Good stuff.