JP. Schmidt
15Oct11
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Yass
21Feb12
Je m'attendais à quelque chose de moins drôle et plus prise de tête/fait pour les étudiants arts du spectacle qui se la pètent, mais en fait c'est un excellent flim. L'intrigue en elle-même est très sympa en surface, et derrière se cache un petit bijou postmoderne comme je les kiffe ! Ca me rappelle beaucoup kiss kiss bang bang.
Chris Jones
4Feb12
It's second-rate Coen Brothers meets second-rate Wes Anderson, but that doesn't mean it's all that bad of a way to spend a couple hours.
Aini Irwanto
29Oct11
Love the story, love the characters (the actors did a great job), the soundtrack suits the movie perfectly, and the best thing about the movie is the a-ha! moments about living.
Barbosa_XII
15Oct11
Not that it matters, but out of all the films I've ever seen, this is by far my least favorite.
AdamantCocoon
18Sep11
Too aggressively flip to be any more engaging. Homage is straitened by a lack of pulse. Joseph Gordon Levitt must be R. Johnson's trump card.
Howard_Bannister
31Jul11
Totally inconsistent and incompatible in tone and pace. It's almost as if the director completely misunderstood the script...except that the director wrote the script.
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Pedro Franceschini
20Jun11
It's not exceptional, but pretty good. Funny, nice lines and good acting.
Rashed
1Jun11
They don't make 'em like they used to? Well apparently they still do. This is a classic hollywood con artist tale that probably is flawed in places when it hinges on melodrama, but is so superbly told that I didn't care. Fascinating to watch from start to finish with fine performances from all 4 of the leads - all in all a lovely postmodern tale of lying and deception that tells you a lie with a straight face.
Bongos615
24Mar11
An underrated gem. This film gets compared to Wes Anderson, but Johnson reminds me most of a contemporary on the other side of the globe, Bong Joon-Ho. Both are executing unprecedented tonal and emotional experiments in genre films (actually, Edgar Wright fits in here too) that give unexpected resonance to familiar stories.
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Manuel Coelho
17Dec10
Rian Johnson has everything to be one of the great directors in the next 10 years if he starts focusing more on his creativity alone.
comeandsee
9Dec10
this is something really special, inventive and enthralling. some fine performances, rinko kikuchi giving one of my favorite performances of the noughties. the direction is very stylish but not in a way which nudges the story out of the way. some twists and turns, and a film which has a real sense of its comedy as well as its ever-so dark centre filling.
Christopher Smith
10Oct10
The overdone indie quirkiness manages to avoid being too irritating by some genuinely clever and charming touches, with the cast taking up much of the slack. Rachel Weisz's performance, in particular, finds the balance of eccentricity and pathos better than the film itself does. But the script isn't quite up to the task, falling apart in the final act with a few too many uninspired, predictable plot twists.
Jack Hemingway
11Sep10
script could've been better, lots of befuddlement in the last act. but other than that, it's a good watch
Singha Song
2Aug10
Love it! I really enjoyed the spontaneous and eccentric feel to it and Ruffalo and Rinko Kikuchi's performance's were wonderful to watch.
Richard Burns
18Jul10
This movie was fantastic, using clever framing, editing and sound design to accentuate and create fantastic bits of humor. Highly stylized, although anyone looking for anything approximating the real world or deep characterization would probably best look elsewhere. One of the most fun films I've seen in ages. Worth it for the title sequence alone, narrated by Ricky Jay no less.
Cody Hernandez
12Jul10
This movie was an absolute delight. Having seen Rian Johnson's Brick, I knew this follow up was sure to be amazing, and it was. I enjoyed how well the project was conceived and executed. The main quartet of characters kept me on the edge of my seat all throughout. References to Dostoevsky, Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, the parallels to Joyce's Ulysses, and the very strong, dark themes made this movie great.
Phil Worfel
14Apr10
I adore this film. It's a delight from beginning to end with some of the most hilarious non-sequitur's I've ever seen on film. Highly recommended.