Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

rbslack1 This is one of those movies you actually HAVE TO watch two or three times to fully appreciate. You'll start noticing little things - like that Grace has a band-aid on her neck at the very beginning. When Neely's doing his sales job on Jon, Jon's clock says it's 11:11pm, yet he needs to be in Baker by 10:00 (?). Grace is in apt 12, across the hall from Jon (so Jon is in room 11). Most (all?) clocks shown, even in the background, throughout the movie show the same time: 11:11. Jon's room number at the Royal Hawiian is 111. Jon's shoe size is 11. Bowling at the end of the movie - lane 11 and he gets an 11th frame. Significance? I haven't figured it out yet!Notice Neely's blue jump suit, and the logo on the jump suit. While Jon is chatting with Dan in the diner, later in the movie, someone walks by outside wearing the same style jump suit. Near the end of the movie, when Jon visits the FBI (Kelsey), watch keenly when Kelsy (Agent Beggs?) opens the file. Right there on top is a document with the same logo as on Neely's jump suit.There's a few other things along these lines, but you get the drift. Watch it once and enjoy it. Watch it again (and again!) with a keen eye and be a bit fascinated. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie on first viewing. It grabs your attention and keeps it. It's pleasantly different from anything you've seen before. All the acting is great, as is the soundtrack. I've recommended it to all my friends, and have gotten positive feedback from all who've seen it. Watch it again!

human-us If you're into the typically self-indulgent (and often too self-conscious) Australian movies, then you might like this -- especially so if you're an Australian, as they do so crowd around their own.Once you get beyond that, you get that 'let's show 'em what we're about mate' production -- sometimes this can be a good thing, but often it seems it's a peculiar side effect of a film produced downunder.There have been lots of great low-budget Australian films, but this one seems to carry on that nuevo mañana película tradición: 'We're from another BETTER planet because Baz Luhrmann says so...' -- even though Luhrmann has been the only Australian to have ever pulled that off.Summed up -- over-the-top weirdness when it could have been better if it had been just plain weird. Acting is entertaining in some spots but the actors seem bemused, uninspired and inattentive (perhaps they didn't know what they were supposed to pay attention to?).Tedious and in spots, predictably unpredictable (if you can grok that). I'd have enjoyed the evening more if I'd have chosen to see a repeat of "Strictly Ballroom" or maybe even "Kangaroo Jack".Cheers

guetta10 The movie is built "Coen Brothers like", a mixed-up of "Fargo" with "the Big Lebowsky" and "Barton Fink"... It has the mystery That's so well-known in the Coen Brothers' movies. but still something is missing... maybe it's because of the on-actor-role that the film provides, and making an almost one man show in a movie like this is very hard (allthouh we have seen it in "Barton Fink"). It is an experience for the viewers to know something they know, but in a different way. despite of the fact that the movie is not very smart, you Can't finish watching it without a thousand running through your head. For closing: You really should watch this movie, not just because it's good or because of the beautiful Rachel lee Cook, but because it will show you lines of comparison between this movie and the Coen brothers' movies, and you can really learn from it. It's not a great movie, but I know I couldn't lay my eyes off it.

panicoma-1 Favreau finds the pick of the bunch almost every time. Beautiful little movie injecting a barb of synchronicity for me this day when I had just finished reading Fear & Loathing in LA, centring very much around the Mint 400 desert race. The echo of Thompson's warning about bad deeds and dudes abroad among the dunes is still ringing in my ears as everyman John Person slips into Hitchcockian situation through desperate need for daily bread. Bud Cort in neck-brace tells you this is going to be a rocky ride for the Fav, but this is a buddy movie, YOU are the buddy! Peppered with Daryl Hannah doing great business as a security role for offbeat actors and characterisations, the near genius Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite's stand-out Uncle Rico), and the jarring but subtly successful casting of Sean Bean as the Man in Black. This film experience is studded with the sort of scenes and shots everyone wants to make. The overall uplift comes from knowing that someone can still make this sort of Art in the land of Cine-cism.Many thanks to Steve Anderson who wrote and directed this gem, he made my evening with a graceful, poised and elegant look at the American Heart and its place among the human coyotes who feed upon it.