Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

rue_alain It's original, I'll give it that. Unfortunately I want more out of a movie than that. John C. Reilly is pretty much totally wasted in this and the movie is really weird just for the sake of being really weird. I hate leaving a theater feeling like my time was deliberately wasted like this.

perica-43151 This movie is a master class in weird but meaningful film making. Want something fresh and original, weird but highly watchable. Then this is a movie for you.

okamiokami The lobster is possibly one of the worst movies ever made. The characters are thrown in a dystopian world where singles have 45 days to get back on track and find a soul mate or be transformed into animals. And it gets even worse. Inmates at the "coupling hotel", which is a mix between a lunatic asylum and the love boat, are forced to hunt each other with anaesthetic darts to prolong their stay at the hotel and get more chances to mate. Acting is pretty dreadful: Colin Farrel could not act to save his life, and apparently it was an "artistic" choice to make all characters behave like lobotomy patients. The hero does not get a better deal with the revolutionaries, singles that chose to live in the woods, and whose rules are even more stringent. In the end, if you have to choice between watching "the lobster" or doing anything else, including plucking your nose for two hours, please choose the latter.

jennmaresca I give this movie a "I'd watch it for free if I was super bored" out of 10. (3/10) First off, this was definitely not a movie I would watch again. Just to clarify. I only watched it because someone I care about loves it and I wanted to like it for his sake, but I just couldn't. If I could overlook the plot and the way I felt about it, I might say its a good movie. Costumes and set design is nice to look at and all, but I couldn't get over how uncomfortable this entire movie made me. The concept is interesting... single people have a certain amount of time to find a suitable partner with whom they have something in common, or else they get turned into an animal of their choosing. I just didn't like the way the story played out or the style of acting. Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz (and every other actor within) play characters who have zero social skills and I just didnt vibe with it, if I'm being honest. It's not a bad movie. But it is most certainly not my cup of tea.