Perry Kate
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
educallejero
There are films that just aren't for you (me). This is one of them. I don't care much about Gossip of real people, let alone about fake people of 100 years ago.The twist is clever, sure, but that was about it. Still, probably is more that I just wasn't a target for this kind of film
Mr Black
Usually i like most movies in one degree or another,, but this,, well yikes! I felt like yelling SOMETHING HAPPEN!!! This movie is like watching a stage play but it was filmed. There is a paradigm in movie making for a reason - thirty minutes in, there is a plot twist for a reason. This just doesn't get off the ground. "Oh, were is my jewellry" is the most exciting thing in the first half. Although I will admit it is well acted and beautifully photographed, the story just drags and drags and drags. I kept wondering if I was watching a movie or a made for TV drama adapted from the play for public television or something. Definitely won't watch it again.
SnoopyStyle
It's the 30's. Various guests are gathering at English country estate Gosford Park for a hunting weekend. Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith) arrives with her servant Mary MacEachran (Kelly Macdonald). Actor Ivor Novello (Jeremy Northam) arrives with American vegetarian film producer Morris Weissman (Bob Balaban) and his valet Henry Denton (Ryan Phillippe). Lady Sylvia McCordle (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) are the hosts with their daughter Isobel. There are also Lady Sylvia's sisters, Louisa, Lady Stockbridge, and Lady Lavinia Meredith with their husbands Raymond, Lord Stockbridge, and Commander Anthony Meredith. There are also Freddie Nesbitt and wife Mabel, Lord Rupert Standish and his friend Jeremy Blond. The help includes butler Jennings, George, and Elsie (Emily Watson). Secrets are revealed by the upstairs and downstairs interactions. Someone is murdered and Inspector Thompson (Stephen Fry) investigates.Like many Robert Altman movies, this has an avalanche of characters. I'd be lying if I say that I followed everyone and everything. It's a big task to keep everyone's story straight. It does have a compelling flow through everything. Kelly Macdonald is the eyes through which I see this movie. The acting power is vast. The cinematography is beautiful. The plot does ramble as Altman movie does but it's the endless supply of characters that make it compelling.
Chris Bodansky
A perfect "boutique" movie in every way- casting, acting, set, script,direction, everything. The music is the icing on the cake. And, like a cake, there are layers to it. Every time I watch it, I get something more from it. A brilliant idea executed brilliantly. All the actors "are" those characters to the tee. Dame Maggie, ever the quintessential snob; Dame Helen, "mysterious" to the end. Oh that there were more movies like this, that transport one so completely to another time and place. Watch it on in a rainy afternoon when you want nothing more than that. Julian Fellowes cut his script- writing teeth on this one, and it's clear to see why "Downtown" Abbey" was bound to be a success. ( only one detraction- the dialogue is a little too quick to catch at times on my VHS version)
