CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Edwin
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Yazmin
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
NobBoffin
I read all the reviews for this film and I have to agree with someone who once said that rectums and opinions are something that everyone shares. The film was not liked by some for not displaying what they thought it should. I liked it because it resonated with me on a certain level.Earlier this week I was riding a streetcar in Toronto and saw a number of homeless people begging on the streets, and wondered why are they there and I am here. I am not that ambitious or a go getter but somehow I have survived the last twenty years of economic downturns, where they did not.That point comes up in this film, the protagonist is haunted by the fact that he survived where so many did not. It also made me think for the first time in my life, the survivors of the death camps must have had some severe mental heath issues, a theme I do not think has been addressed much in the past with the exception of the Pawn Broker.The film really did hit home and regardless if you think the theme of the holocaust has been done to death, (as one Danish reviewer did) this film had a different slant on it. It made me think deeply about things that frankly never occurred to me before.For that reason I rate this film high not because I think the other earlier reviewers are wrong but simply because I saw it differently.A good film, it might be disturbing, it might annoy but watch it at least once.
ween-3
Intriguing and surreal movie with an outstanding performance by Jeff Goldblum, whose name should have been in the mix for any number of acting awards for this film. Holocaust-related movies generally don't get deliver box office results, but this is a strikingly good treatment that deserves a wider audience. Watch it and get the word of mouth out there.Paul Schrader, whose had a hand in more than a few films about human darkness, creates an intriguing film here. The "arms" scene at towards the end of the film is worth the price of admission on its own. Right up there with "I am Spartacus" or the "I'm still here, you bastards" last line from "Papillon". Powerful stuff. Derek Jacobi, Willem DeFoe, Ayelet Zurer, a frighteningly good Romanian kid named Tudor Rapiteanu, and the rest of international cast do yeoman's work.Always been a fan of Jeff Goldblum's read on a line...and he's at the top of his game in "Adam".
zetes
Jeff Goldblum plays a Jewish clown who survives the Holocaust by pretending to be Nazi officer Willem Dafoe's dog. Sounds like a tasteless, cheesy Italian movie from the '70s, right? Oh, if only. This cringe-worthy material could have been magic, an easy-made cult classic. Unfortunately, Paul Schraeder directs. I'm sure he's directed a few good films. I've seen one or two okay ones. But he's so boring. He's so literal-minded and unambitious. Adam Resurrected is a first rate bore. Goldblum and Dafoe try to make it "fun", but Schraeder's only interested in making a dire Holocaust picture. We just don't need another one of those. For the record, the Holocaust plot line is really only the flashback sequences. The present-day sequences (set in 1960s Tel Aviv) have Goldblum in a mental hospital, complete with the ultra-lame mental hospital clichés (one woman thinks she's holding up the sky from falling - how wonderful!). He is "resurrected" when he finds a young boy who was raised as a dog and he attempts to cure him.
uncertain
Another holocaust movie.How many times do we need to be told that Nazis=Bad, while Jews=Good? It's high time to stop living in the first half of the last century. Sure, bad things happened, but come on. How many different perspectives can there be? How many oddball points of view are there? A former circus entertainer who was spared the gas chamber and is now stuck in a mental institution specifically for holocaust survivors? Are you kidding me? Why not the story of a former Jewish mechanic who escaped the forced labor of evil Nazi kitchens where he peeled carrots for 21 hours a day, and who now makes cat food for a living in Guadalajara while moonlighting as a house painter? How much more random can it get? What does this story offer to history? In what way is humanity bettered by it? What lessons are learned? None. That's the answer. This is crap. Turn it off.