Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

aapiran A great movie,especially if you're over 40-45 years old and fan of early 70's glam rock movement. Daniel Craig is superb,although he's not appearing here more than in 30% of the plot. It makes you compare the simple,poor, spontaneous and rather naive life of the post-war past with that of consuming,shallow,hard and eccentric life of today.One man into two different worlds,the successful,worn-hearted middle-aged one vs his sentimental youth.Has anything been left from his young self? Coincidentally and sad news from his past life,give him the opportunity to find out and furthermore to fill the gap he created many years ago.Alas (or thankfully?),people can walk back into their past but faces,lovers and situations of it, have gone forever out of reach. It reminds me of a less romantic and poetic "Cinema Paradiso",but equally worth and sentimental. Young "Daniel Craig" and Felicity Jones are also very good,music is gorgeous.

M MALIK wow i am kicking myself after buying this film.starting Daniel Craig flashbacks of a fool 2008 is about a Hollywood star who wastes life buy having sex & drugs & doing crazy things like shouting at people & getting berserk .the movie starts with Daniel Craig with some funny moments but goes into a flashback as he thinks about his past life in 70s .how he had sex with a lady younger then her & smooching girls .listening to weird music & etc. after attending his old friends funeral he goes back to his crazy life.this movie has nothing to see in it.Daniel Craig is worst at acting in this like he does in his James bond films. he was feeling bad & did it only for the money.the film tried to be an artistic but failed.my rating is 1/10. don't watch this unless you have nothing.

pfvll-2 Excellent movie - I wish they made more like this, as much a work of art as a good novel. It deeply involves the audience in the lives of the well-constructed characters. A number of people have commented that they would have liked to have seen more of Joe Scot's life between the climactic events of his adolescence and the life we see at the opening of the film. Isn't that evidence of the way people were involved in the story? I reject completely the criticisms of some that this movie is too slow or poorly constructed. A good tale of real people, well told, does not fit well to a flash-bang-wallop thriller approach to unveil the characters and how they respond to life and each other. A more measured approach allows deeper characterisation and more intelligent, thorough construction of the influences upon them. Nor do classical, generic theories of movie construction apply to all circumstances. A good director constructs his movie to play out the chosen story in a way that suits the telling and the characters. He does not follow mechanical, prefabricated schemes. The acting is unfailingly good, by the whole cast, and it a pleasure to see Daniel Craig revelling - and revealing - in a role so far away from his Bond persona. The camera-work is superb - reminded me of a young Jack Cardiff. It was a shame that the seaside scenes were shot in South Africa - although beautiful, neither the shacks, the sunny beaches nor the long, rolling waves looked like anywhere in the UK. But in no way did that spoil the film. I assume they wanted the reliable natural brilliant light to keep costs down! It looks like it was supposed to be Norfolk or Suffolk, but since those beaches are, in reality, usually shrouded in thick sea-mist, the substitution is understandable.I shall definitely buy the DVD for occasional viewing - I liked it that much. If you haven't seen it and enjoy thoughtful, intelligent movies - go see it. You will enjoy a refreshingly interesting piece of real cinema.I have one question - the young Joe Scot is reported on IMDb as having been acted by Emile Robert but elsewhere the part is credited to Harry Eden, who gave a superb performance in Pure. Either name, the part was outstandingly well played and we shall be seeing a lot more of this obviously hugely talented young man. Which name and why, IMDb?

Angelus2 Joe Scot is a fading actor, spending his days and nights drinking heavily and taking even heavier drugs. He is a broken man, all on his lonesome.But the untimely death of an old friend revives old feelings and demons Joe Scot had long forgotten.The film is slow to begin with...Actually it has an awful opening with a tired Daniel Craig moaning and drinking away his day....It's definitely a terrible opening, however once we delve into Joe's past, we see the young boy he once was...the girl he fell in love with, and the woman he made love too, and the tragic death he caused. It is then that the film takes shape and we, witness a broken Joe Scot return home to face those old demons he had once run away from.....