Console best movie i've ever seen.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

juneebuggy This was good- interesting. I thought Liam Neeson was excellent, as was the entire cast (Peter Sarsgaard, Chris O'Donnell, John Lithgow, Oliver Platt, Timothy Hutton) which also includes an Oscar nomination for Laura Linney as Kinsey's freethinking wife.The movie is provocative and intelligent, scientific not sexy and will make you laugh but also squirm at times and wonder how Alfred Kinsey ever managed to get his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" published at a time (1948) when sex was generally misunderstood and very taboo. Everyone seemed to be asking "am I normal?".Using the technique of his own famous sex interviews, the movie uncovers the secrets of a nation while recounting the scientist's extraordinary journey from oppressed obscurity to pioneer in the area of human research, to global fame. Kinsey was responsible for the start of the sexual revolution, changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book -before they turned on him. 11/23/14

DarthVoorhees 'Kinsey' loves and has great admiration for Alfred Kinsey. Kinsey and his legacy defy anything conventional and filmmaker Bill Condon does not put Kinsey through the cookie cutter bio-pic formula. The bio pic is as boring and cliché as any formula Hollywood mass produces. With a subject like Alfred Kinsey there is a temptation to exploit the subject for all the theatrical details and yet the film does not exploit Kinsey. 'Kinsey' is frank and this frankness is refreshing. The film is not about the rise and fall of Kinsey and the little sideshow 'sexcapades'. Condon has written a great script that plays into the strengths of it's title character. Alfred Kinsey was a scientist who studied sex because he believed he could help people through his theories and that is what 'Kinsey' is about. The central theme of the film is Kinsey's quest to help people through his work. Never does the discussion of sex become gratuitous. Condon and Neeson don't try to portray Kinsey as a preacher or philosopher because he wasn't, although people try to portray him as one. This was a surprise to me. Usually films like 'Kinsey' are only interested in the sexual abnormalities of it's subject. There are areas in the film involving Kinsey's sex life where Condon could very easily have tried to emotionally skew the audiences but he doesn't. Sex is such a philosophical topic that to see a scientific and often non emotional take on it was quite odd. In retrospect though it is completely in character with Kinsey. Kinsey wanted to peel away the societal preconceptions about sex and study it as a science. 'Kinsey' isn't a film about sex but rather the scientist who studied sex. The central character arc of Kinsey as the scientist is always at the forefront of the story.Liam Neeson gives a brilliant performance as Alfred Kinsey which has a surprisingly uplifting feel. He really is a fascinating character and I imagine Neeson had to delve deep in character study to do the man justice. Like the script, Neeson also portrays Kinsey as a scientist. I love how for much of the film Neeson portrays a sense of awkwardness. Kinsey is frankly a bookish nerd who for most of the film has a better relationship with his gall wasps than he does with other people. It is the passion for science that makes Kinsey a dynamic character and Neeson performance portrays this to a key. The character goes through struggles but they aren't superficial material struggles. I thought Neeson would be forced to give a hammy death bed declaration of principles about how he had to overcome so much but he doesn't. Kinsey is brought to lows and they have to do with a fear of failing people who could have been helped by his research. I loved this approach and the gravitas of a Liam Neeson makes Condon's exploration of this character all the more accessible and relatable. There is a tragic moment in the film where Kinsey's wife discovers Kinsey in the bathroom reading letters with his foreskin bleeding from violent masturbation lamenting his failures and limitations. In the wrong hands such material would seem contrived and overtly stagy but in the capable hands of Liam Neeson we see Alfred Kinsey as conflicted but real. Dynamic figures deserve respect and Bill Condon and Liam Neeson clearly respect Alfred Kinsey.

Andres Benatar Luque The father of Sexology, Alfred Kinsey himself can only be defined as a man without fear, or limit in the quest he took to further examine the nature of human sexuality in the various forms it expresses itself. He would penetrate the strongest of barriers, showing his utmost direct attention, leaving very little to be unexamined. With a performance as serious and upfront performed by Liam Neeson, you'll have no choice but to wonder why it wasn't serious enough for a best actor Oscar nomination. In the course of the film we viewers witness Alfred Kinsey live life with a curiosity in biology, particularly that if Gall Wasps, leading him to the midpoint of his career to further develop a keen interest into the numerous types of sexual practices people engage in, and why exactly they do it. He ignores all barriers in this quest, hiring a team of students wise enough to be trained to a form of sophistication that enables them to question people with similar curiosity about there sexuality. The film's intro is proof of their direct form of interviewing, asking people when they first choked their bishops, had sex with someone for the first time, or if by luck whether they've ever experimented with the same sex. Kinsey took out all the social qualities which contribute to sex. Hell his wife Mac (Linney) proved to be helpful when she herself divulged herself into what many would call the insanity of her husbands quest for the full truth about sex. The Kinsey Scale was a scale, which ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual. This form of mesauring an individual's sexual curiosity became quite useful, especially to it's inventor when he himself had a casul sexual experience with his assistant/student Clyde Matrin (Saarsgard). The moment was a spur to both, leaving Kinsey with the option of learning why he felt this form of sexual identification, when he clearly was married, having never any homosexual feelings, proving further that human's sexual behavior is different. There is a more common form of human sexiality, with men being attracted to women, leaving the possibility of the less, but still noticeable homosexual, and bisexual participants. In the mist of his research he published 2 novels, in regards to the sexual behavior of both sexes. One novel being for the male sex, while the other novel being in regards to the female sex. Despite the controversy towards his works and the disrespect it showed to the many people who understandably valued the penetration of sex as a taboo, Kinsey continued using what he had with the Rockafellar foundation to continue his research. The film ends with Kinsey still facing the controversy over the publication of his 2nd work, but not leaving him with doubt. In an interview an unnamed woman, Kinsey sees the very work he's dedicated his work too has not only given him more accurate looks into the various forms of sexual practice, but also the answers some very unhappy people were looking for. There a lot of people out in this world who are never aware, nor brave enough to come to terms with their own sexuality, leaving them very deppressed, lacking in confidence, and furthermore persecuted by others. I can't say Kinsey was completely right when it came to discovering all these facts, however I will say he has a lot of balls to actuall attempt something so bold . I mean he had his own research assitants have sex with various peole for the purpose of further study. His wife Mac was apart of that research. Nevertheless peole do what they have to to get answers, which often may see them as strange, but in some cases uniques, and that's what I truly think about a guy like Alfread Kinsey, someone who really digs deep to find whatever forms of truth the search requires.

valadas Like also bold was the research done by the man who worked out these reports on the sexual behavior of men and women which made a revolution in the till then established knowledge and the common social and individual convictions on such matters. To withdraw sex out of the pure scope of morals and religion and turning it as an object of scientific research was a task which offended lots of prejudices and cleared up preconceived notions and ideas, contributing in a certain way to the liberation mainly of the women as victims of such prejudices. Of course you can raise here the question -- and this is not missing in the movie -- of knowing if sexual activity is purely physical or it must also involve sentiments and obey to moral rules. But this is a movie review and not a moral essay. That question is legitimate but its discussion is absent of this review because it goes beyond what a movie review is supposed to be. This movie, in its biographical aspect, tells us in astonishingly good way the work of Alfred Kinsey and his struggle to reach the aimed goal of a purely scientific nature, of revealing what actually happens in the human sexual activity and behavior disregarding of moral patterns and also of the common wrong knowledge about it. Its true knowledge would then enable sexologists to establish rules that would allow voluntary and free sex to become a source of pleasure and happiness. Liam Neeson performs very well the role of the main character and the movie shows a live and energetic succession of every aspect of his activity in the pursuit of his aim, including aspects and scenes of his own personal and married life. About the end one of his assistants refers to him that he never dealt with the question of love in his works. He gave a prompt and clear reply to this: love cannot be measured and science only deals with measurable objects and actions. But love is not totally absent from this movie. In fact the love that unites the Kinsey spouses is very deep and firm. Even jealousy appears once in the scene where one of his assistants has a fight with another one that was having an affair with the former's wife. This proves that it is not that easy to consider sexual behavior only under its physical aspects and that psychological ones are also to attend. A beautiful movie on a very difficult theme but in which the mastery and skill of Bill Condon brings it to a good end.