ThiefHott
Too much of everything
Moustroll
Good movie but grossly overrated
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Blake Rivera
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
sriram_m
"The Cut(2014)" is Turkish born German director Fathe Akin's first high budget lavish international film. Fathe Akin got death threats from Turkey because of making this film on the backdrop of world's largest genocide after Nazi Holocaust, the Armenian genocide. In Turkey today it is a serious crime to use the word "Genocide" in reference to the systematic expulsion of Armenians from Turkish Soil in the period from 1915 to 1923. During this time 1.5 million Armenians were either murdered outright or perished on forced death marches through the Syrian Desert. A few Turkish intellectuals have spoken out against the official Turkish policy of Genocide."The Cut" is the deep wound to human heart. It is an intense and emotional journey which depresses our soul. The scale, immensity and quality of this masterpiece makes us remember Chinese master director Feng Xiaogang's "Aftershock (2010)". The scenes like protagonist Tahar Rahim (of "A Prophet" fame) watching Charlie Chaplin's film makes us emotionally outburst.This is one of the very important films about history. An intense and dark masterpiece about humanity.
Tom Dooley
Tahir Rahim ('A Prophet') stars as Nazarat an Armenian artisan in the town of Mardin. World War I is raging and the Ottoman Turks have thrown in their lot with the forces of Germany and her allies. In Turkey a decision is made to do something about the Christian Armenians. Nazarat is rounded up and forced to work as slave labour – leaving his wife and twin daughters alone to their fate.What befalls him is horrific and what befell the Armenians was a war crime and a crime against humanity. In the aftermath of his travails Nazarat hears that his daughters have survived the blood bath, he then sets out to find them and the majority of the film is taken up with his search.Now this is a fairly good effort, it is a bit shameless at tugging on the heart strings though. It was a wide European co-production and that is reflected in the languages being used. The main language though is English, which is used by most of the players here. That may be why it has faced criticism of some of the acting. That criticism is that some of it was a bit hammy or wooden. It is harder to act in a non native tongue so a lot of the nuances are lost. Rahim is as ever excellent and believable and as a central character to the film he manages to hold it all together very well. There are some plot holes and I could not find if this was based on an actual real story. However, it is fairly engaging and with a run time of around two hours managed to keep me gripped for the most part hence my rating.
DesiAnge
A true masterpiece!Liked it a lot!Faith Akin - unique as always.I would say that "The cut" is one of his best films.Very hard to watch it on some points - kind of painful - the armenian genocide is historical fact.Very good scenario and actors!Definitely one of the best movies, which i have watched this year.Highly recommend "The Cut" to everyone who wants to understand what the real cinema is!Gave 9 to the movie and i think this movie absolutely deserved it.
danielvukicevic
Not a movie for every ones taste, because this movie is quite hard stuff because it's content is about a genocide. In some of the scenes i got goosebumps because of the emotional character of the scenes (especially when Armenians got killed or when the protagonist had to kill his sister in law, when he was angry about "god"). The finding of his child in the 2nd part of the film was a little bit sluggish, but also these sluggish scenes created an atmosphere how hard it was to find his daughters. Like my forerunner said, for my taste it had been a good movie and it is NOT for everyone's taste. If you like Science-Fiction or would like to watch a cuddle movie, don't watch this one.
