Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
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.
aethomson This is another take on "Romeo and Juliet". Prokofiev did it as ballet. Bernstein did it as musical. Zeffirelli and Luhrmann did it as movies. Tim van Dammen has filmed it as New Zealand rock opera.Gypsy curse, very Shakespeare. Sharp combinations of alternating poignant tenderness and cynical exploitation, very Globe Theatre. Pixie-faced Lizzie Brochere with the huge eyes, very Juliet. So where are the warring families, the Montagues and Capulets? They are America and France, different ways of seeing life. They are the English language and the French language, different ways of expressing life. And they don't need to be anywhere out there, because they are inside us. From the moment of our conception, from the moment of our birth, we start accumulating individuality and baggage, individuality and baggage that are going to make love impossible - or at the very least, difficult. We are all star-cross'd lovers.The problem with living more than four hundred years after Romeo first delivered the line: "If I profane with my unworthiest hand..." is how to make a doomed love credible, how to make us the audience care about the lovers and what they feel and what happens to them, and how to make it all look original, how to make it look archetypal but at the same time new. This film succeeds.
thebiddler-2 Mix the raw emotion and psychological disturbance of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club with a story of romance and love and this is what you get. A Romeo and Juliet for the minds who grew up reading A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest while going through their educational careers being numbed by the despair of the writing and music of Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, or Stabbing Westward, to I'm a Barbie Girl and Marilyn Manson. With unemployment and fiscal trouble running rampant and mass shootings on the television daily, this is a story of love that can speak to a generation who may never have known what the words "I love you" meant. This was truly an original film and I will be looking out for this writer in the future.
williams65 This is the film that made me write my first review of a film. It made me smile and almost cry in equal amounts. I found it neither predictable nor boring. I love the leading actress, beautiful to watch. The story has so many stories entwined within it, it was like unwrapping presents. Although a love story, it also explores the relationships that the lead characters, especially Sophie, have with other characters. It's not a happy ending but I'm not a happy ever after fan of American films. It's a Juliet and Romeo type of ending that leaves you slightly reeling. However, for all its quirkiness, the whole film had a really natural feel, even when dealing with unusual elements. I knew nothing of the director before watching this film and chose it solely on a brief synopsis on netflix. In my book, an excellent choice.
neiest The movie is a little boring. There are some good aspects to the plot, but it doesn't seem to come together as well as it could have. Schaeffer should have cast someone else in his role. The character he plays has great lines and wit, but Schaeffer doesn't deliver well, and comes off as fruity and very annoying. It's obvious that this guy (Schaeffer) thinks a lot of himself, even though he's trying to appear to be the 'everyday (depressed) Joe' in this and other movies; and he wants to do love scenes with beautiful foreign actresses(so maybe you can't blame him). The main reason to see this movie is Lizzie Brocheré. She's super cute and sexy and does a good job (much better than Schaeffer). This movie would have maybe been a 5 without her. The 'tragic' ending is a failed attempt; should have just had a happy one. I like movies that end in a way you wouldn't necessarily expect, but this one comes to a useless conclusion...he only knew her a couple of weeks.
