Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

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.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

SnoopyStyle James (Dan Stevens) is blind, married to Sam (Malin Akerman) with young son Jonah. He works at a call center with other blind people including his friend Bob (Oliver Platt). One morning, he wakes up cured of his blindness. His personality changes. His flirtations with co-worker Jessica (Kerry Bishé) get serious.There are some good actors doing good work but this movie is stuck in a slow, disjointed, cold art-house world. It also fails as a character study for a simple reason. His change at the very start makes it hard to know James' personality before his turn. It's hard to know the degree of his change, or feel for Sam's loss. This film just leaves me feeling cold and pining for the lost potential.

ccreagor I don't usually exert the effort to write a review, but it's something of a crime that this movie gets such low reviews on IMDb. The other reviewers are the type of people who feel the need to cast their judgment on a film just because it doesn't fit their very narrow definition of a worthwhile film. Does The Ticket ask more questions than it answers? Sure. But you could hardly say it moves too fast to adequately deal with them. One of the beauties of this film is its slow, methodical pace. And the cinematography alone is worth your time. Don't pass judgment based on this film's reviews and decide for yourself.

getadisasterkit Just saw this (Spoiler ALERT)....nothing else to rent so rented this one...figuring it was probably a chick flick. I give it 2.5-3 stars. Probably was deeper than what I saw it as. Not to spoil it for you but to give you the premise...you can go deeper into the movie if you would like....Guy is blind, guy miraculously gets his vision back, guy become successful by becoming greedy, guy looses family, in the end...well...guy. looses his eye sight again......you can put 2 and 2 together and see the human drama unfolding...not an action flick but human drama with a proverbial moral. Acting..GOOD, a solid 6.5 out of 10, production 5 out of 10.

TomSawyer 2112 That's what I conclude. So he marries a woman when he was blind, and then sees there is more attractive around. So he was stuck in his career, and sees how he gets promoted when he sees how to manipulate people with financial problems?Jesus, this movie calls up to God so many times, and the rhythm is really slow and boring.Every scene is so moralistic, so foreseeable. No wit in sight. Except the confrontation with his old blind job buddy in the café.Of course you would expect him to become blind again. At the beginning of the movie, you see him recovering light from the dark.At the end, I expected nothing but a black screen for 10 minutes I think the producers probably refused the intellectual idea, because the director's name wasn't Lars van Trier.Shame, it was a good project, and the acting of Dan Stevens was really brilliant, but he was very lonesome.