ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Nicole 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.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

FrostyChud I've just returned after seeing this movie and it has messed your dude up. This was my life for the two years I spent with my Milena. The parallels are uncanny. I am kind of nerdy just like Garfunkel...same pathetic physique...but like Garfunkel I have a certain magnetism. Garfunkel's not exactly a wimp...there's some steel in his gaze. My Milena was just as magnetic and beautiful as Theresa Russell...really. My Milena also lived in a sordid, messy, sexy aerie with a big bed, overfull ashtrays, half-read books everywhere. The alcohol? Check. The infidelity? Check. The suicide attempts? Check. The much older other man? Check. The sleazy, disgusting party friends? Check. The late-night drunk calls that may or may not have been suicide attempts? Check. The intense sex that regularly turned into something twisted? Check. Just like Garfunkel I was hooked...just like Garfunkel I had a "together" life...my God, I even study psychoanalysis...and just like Garfunkel there was more than a hint of bad faith in the togetherness I opposed to my Milena's sloppiness. Like Garfunkel, the idea that Milena had other lovers made me crazy...like Theresa Russell, my Milena needed secrets...lies...she couldn't breathe without her lies and secrets.The scene where she sets Garfunkel up with her fake suicide attempt only to loose the full force of her hysterical cruelty on him...check...down to the blows and the broken bottles...and it marked the moment our love died, even if things dribbled on for a while after that. Anyway...you get the picture. You know a movie is good when it shows you things about YOUR OWN life that you hadn't noticed before. That's the secret of a great movie: you feel like it's talking to you and to you alone. I have a feeling I'm not the only person who walked out of the cinema feeling like he had just seen his own life on the screen. Almost everything is perfect. This film is even more disturbing than DON'T LOOK NOW. That is saying a lot. The one wrong note for me was Harvey Keitel. I liked the contrast of his healthy virility with Garfunkel's nerdiness...but Keitel got something wrong. Not sure what...it was certainly a tricky role, and he wasn't exactly bad, but something was wrong.

Red-Barracuda Nicolas Roeg has never exactly been a conventional director. Bad Timing is one of his most complex works. It's a multi-layered and fragmented story about a relationship that gradually goes out of control ending horribly. As is the way with Roeg, editing is hugely important. In this instance the editing is used to cut and paste the narrative in a very non-linear fashion so that the story comes at us with contrasting jarring emotional changes. It's overall a very intense film to watch. One of those that only really settles into your mind once it's over. It's a very adult film with frank sexuality and complex psychology going on throughout. At times it's very unpleasant and it isn't really very surprising it met with some censorship issues. It's equally not too hard to see why it was a commercial failure too. While admittedly the distribution problem it had could not have helped, it's not really a film that has any lightness to it. It's an unremittingly bleak story with almost no humour. This isn't intended as a criticism just an observation.The two principal actors do well with pretty difficult material. It's often sexually very explicit although never erotic. It must've taken some bravery for the leads to act these roles. Although I do expect sexually frank imagery from Nicolas Roeg, on the other hand I wasn't entirely prepared for seeing Art Garfunkel's gonads. But as I say this material is never sensationalized although it does ultimately end in a sex scene that is certainly very grim indeed. However, the main thrust of the narrative, such as it is, is the exploration of a mutually destructive relationship. Roeg's style of bold editing is very well suited to tell this fragmented story. Despite the subject of young lovers it's certainly not a romance. It's way too downbeat for that. If you've just started dating someone, this is not the film to watch together.

Nazi_Fighter_David His movie rates high in production value and acting and has an innovative approach to an old story… The film is basically a character study… Alex (Art Garfunkel) is a depressingly dark and shadowy American psychoanalyst living in Vienna… Theresa Russell plays Milena, a resonant, carefree American girl… They meet by chance at a party and are thrown into a roller-coaster ride of an erotic relationship… He wants to smash her free spirit because he can't understand it, but she won't let him… The result is a near-fatal break-up… Roeg comes close to the story from the middle (obeying Jean-Luc Godard's authoritative saying, a film "must have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." We quickly move to the different parts of Alex and Milena's relationship, moving through time as if it were Jell-O. The editing is intricate, but not confusing… As we change location back and forth, we begin to see more clearly how these two unlikely lovers ever got together… The motion picture is filled with exceptional images, and Theresa Russell is outstanding

sub_mish I can't wait to see this masterpiece again. I hate slushy romantic flicks but this is not one of them.The world of people with extremely unstable emotions is brilliantly evoked in this film.I love the way they are both *so* messed up. There is no happy ending, this is no fairy-tale romance. The constant breakups, the creepy, almost stalking behaviours, the outbursts, the attacks and counter-attacks and violence and general hell that is borderline personality - it's all there.Russell's character is a complete mess - drunk, angry, crazy - she has a string of boyfriends with whom she rows constantly, she smashes things up, she smashes herself up and generally goes completely ape.Garfunkel is brilliant - he has much the same trouble as his girlfriend but he *seems* more subdued, although he hides it better, he keeps coming back to her because *he's the same*.Keitel's detached, manipulating cop who tries to unravel the whole thing is probably his best ever work. He's either the consummate professional, calmly picking up the pieces after some crazy and damaged people have been desperately trying to destroy themselves and each other, or he's a crafty, manipulating, evil so-and-so - you're never quite sure.If you like seriously messed-up movies, this film is for you!