Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Tony You think you know what the story is all about with the opening scenes. A man who was sexually abused as a child tells the priest in the confessional that priest is dead. Then states he didn't kill him, he wants ultimate revenge, to kill our innocent good priest, real payback in a way. But it then plays on that theme to show how Ireland, a highly Catholic country is changing. Lots of characters are introduced leading what the Church would once call immoral lives. They all in their own way ask who are you to preach morals to us after all the revelations that have happened. Very thought provoking, well acted, great scenic cinematography. It's no spoiler to say this reminded me in pace and ending of the classic Get Carter.

peter-legisa The movie is based on the same formula as American Beauty, but works in higher gear: most characters are obnoxious, detestable ; the story hardly makes any sense; we have violence, drugs, homosexuality, extremely morbid dialogues. The »deepest part« is the execution of an innocent man and splattered brains. This Irish movie also turns around the well known paedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church, presenting it in the most brutal way. It is interesting to look at the highly rated reviews: the titles often sound as advertisements. Calvary has not reached the rating of American Beauty though; the extra effort in nastiness did not pay off.If you are a normal man or woman, this movie will most probably ruin your day. I really do not understand the participating actors, who used their talent to make little bits and pieces more believable. Have they not read the whole script? Seriously, if you want to watch a good, touching film about child victims of sexual violence, see the South African movie Little One.

v-ley The title and the explanation of the film are very misleading. I thought maybe it was more about the supernatural or even something more sinister. Instead it was a highly entertaining and serious movie that I couldn't stop watching. Brendan Gleeson is really under rated as an Actor but this movie allows him to shine, along with all of those around him. What a great "sleeper" movie. You'll be very glad you took the time to watch it.

SquigglyCrunch Calvary follows a priest who, while in a confession box, has his life threatened, and how his week goes leading up to the day he's supposed to be murdered. The concept alone was enough to get be hooked, and I must say that I was looking forward to this movie. I wondered how it would handle itself, and was hugely let down. The second the opening scene is completed, it becomes 'a day in the life of a local priest'. Father James, the main priest, wanders about doing odd jobs for people, taking care of his routine, talking to people about things that don't really matter in ways that never gave the audience any reason to care about anything that was going on. Sure, it gets more intense towards the end, but that was over an hour of odd jobs and boring dialogue. The movie's pacing is very dull. It presents an engaging concept, gives the audience a good opening scene, then relies on that steam to carry it for over an hour. While I never necessarily felt compelled to just take a nap, I found myself consistently checking the remaining run time, realizing that I was only halfway and still had the same amount of time left. It was more tedious than it was boring. I just wanted to skip to the end, but persisted anyway. That's not to say that this movie did nothing right. The second half is vastly more interesting than the first half. The characters are, at this point, grounded, and some of them become interesting. Most of them are just mindless stereotypes who claim to be more than that, yet refuse to be any more. We have a black man who accuses people of being racist, then embodies his stereotype to a haunting level. There's the cheating wife who acts exactly how'd you'd expect her to. She cheats on her husband, and that's it. The most intriguing character of all was Fitzgerald, someone who actually had depth and purpose in the end. He was the only character who actually had something going on to make him worth seeing through to the end, save for Father James of course. Furthermore, all the performances are fairly competent. Brendan Gleeson and Dylan Moran, again the two most interesting characters, were pretty good, and Kelly Reilly was good as well. They did what they needed for their characters, and made it just that much more bearable to sit through. The whole revelation at the end when the audience learns who made the threat was, while unexpected, nonsensical in reality. There wasn't any real reason for this specific character to want to kill a priest, despite how much thinking I did about the matter. I just really didn't get it. None of the characters actually seem like they would want to kill a priest, or anyone for that matter, save for maybe one. But it's doubtful in my mind even he would want to kill a priest. Overall Calvary is a tedious drag, but it has some redeeming qualities including some payoff at the end and about two engaging characters. As much as I want to see it again with a new mindset, I also don't want to have to risk being bored out of my mind again. In the end I would recommend this movie so long as you go in with the right mindset.