Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Juana 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.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

bestactress-1 This film speaks to the genius of Al Pacino. Where an ordinary actor, or in his case film icon, would dictate his life story to a writer or simply write a book, in staying true to his magnitude as an actor and being the true artist that he is, he decides to sum up parts of his life, make into a film with extreme highs and lows obviously. Yes, it is an adaptation of a novel, but adapted into a script that Pacino can speak through and put his stamp on. Am I talking out of thin air? No! I was fortunate enough to see a screening of it where Al Pacino spoke afterwards, and he himself said it was somewhat autobiographical, and that's the way I felt when I was watching the film, and that it took about a year to write the script, or adapt it into the film, so it was wonderful to hear him confirm that "autobiographical part". I think he may continue to make films like this for a while, that he can speak about his own life through, his true fans will appreciate it, and it will be a part of his legacy as an actor. Good for him!It's brilliantly funny, and it's for the intellectual palate, it's not your typical Hollywood comedy with silly fart jokes, this is humor with sophistication, humor that actually titillates your brain. It's also low budget, don't expect explosions and cgi, this is an actor's film. For people who love good acting and an intricate story. His acting in it is superb, this is my personal favorite performance of his. You get a window into his intellect, his personal thoughts on acting all through this character. At the end you come out knowing this man is only interested in one thing, the truth in his work, and being truthful in it. When the film opened, I said to myself "oh, this is similar to Birman," (which I thought was just okay) but as it progressed, I realized there was no comparisons and all of the accolades that film got, The Humbling deserved and I personally loved it. They're similar except this is a million times better, you actually get what it's about and it's not abstract for the sake of being abstract with fancy camera tricks to distract you from a fragmented story. Yes there are so many partisan reviews promoting self-interest and bashing good films that deserve a chance. I urge everyone who loves Pacino or has loved any film he's been in prior to see this film.

Hombredelfuturo Is like an stage movie; the problem is the inconsistence of the script, that is like an amalgam of parts. In fact, several scenes do not have a point to belong in the film; like the vet scene... I noticed the VW scenes too, two times at least; no doubt that is a commercial and have nothing to add to the script...seems that the producers needed money. Incongruous (but not arty) parts, like this girl, a lesbian girl that when younger had a crush with the main character (Al Pacino) and now out of the blue decided to start the affair; all the other characters appear out of the blue in the house of Axel. All these ones do not add anything, the story could be developed without them. It s so confusing that at some point you cannot decipher what is the reality and what s not. OK, that s part of the game, but here is where you notice the bad screen writing. Regarding comedy...there s no any comedy here; it s a drama, an stage drama that can works better in a theater than a cinema. Being old and starting to lose appeal, power, talent, etc is not a good thing; all we are going that way and this script is trying to point that...and there s no hope at all.

Sergio Mabres Al was broken, penniless and decided to shoot the worst movie of his life to keep buying stuff for his much younger lover, it is not worth seeing this movie. Is an awful copy of Bird man. Bad acting amidst a worst script. There is a serious mental illness in the movie the one that suffer the guy who wrote the script. In the movie there is an actor too old to play that make every body miserable, Al is the actor and the audience that is to say we are made miserable. Save your many and go see some thing else. I would like to tell you some thing else but I cannot, there is a heated pool in winter in Connecticut, and a girl from Baywatch swimming in it. There is a also ghost from some Shakespeare play that rumbles the story aimlessly without propose nor reason.

zif ofoz First please read maurice yacowar comments/review of this movie found here with the other comments & reviews. That is a wonderful insight to this complex character Simon Axler and this movie.I'm a fan of Greta Gerwig and her performance of Pegeen Mike Stapleford in this movie is almost as complex as the Simon Axler character. The story and characters seem to drift from reality into make believe into the psychotic and then suddenly back to reality. Where does the real and the imagined start and finish? It's all theatre.This isn't a movie for the soap opera crowd but instead it's for people who want to be absorbed into each character and this cast is just perfect in doing that.Why only 9 stars? I don't know!