Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

suite92 The Three Acts:The initial tableau: Jamie's face is dominated by large birthmarks, plural. The largest one covers his whole left eye area. Jamie does 'real' photography with film, and chemical development where he works with his brother. While trolling for photo opportunities at night, he runs afoul of some bipedal reptilians, who look like gangsters, while they kill two people and set them on fire. Jamie lives with his mother. AJ is Jamie's new neighbor; for lack of other candidates, AJ hopes to become Jamie's friend. Jamie's father George is 10 years dead, but still has a presence in his life. Jamie seems quite alienated by his life, his deformities, his job, is living arrangement, and his lack of prospects with women.Delineation of conflicts: This is somewhat difficult to describe. Why? Because the protagonist seems to be insane. Just how much of this is real? It's hard to get interested in characters when it is not clear what is real and what is feverish imaginings. Let us suppose that what is presented is real. Jamie gets a gun to protect himself after the gang beats the hell out of him and burns his mother alive. The reptiles rake AJ's abdomen with a deep claw attack. The whole setup is to justify Jamie's descent into cooperation with dark forces to solve his self-perceived problems. Jamie would like to have female companionship, marriage, and children. How is that going to happen? Does the dark pact with Papa B help out this problem? Can he back out?If the protagonist is insane, on the other hand, one hopes the conflict in his mind ends before the movie does. Resolution: The protagonist is a broken toy. The usual resolution for broken toys is that they stop working.

Matt Kracht The plot: A young man with a birthmark on his face makes a deal with the devil to become beautiful.Unless you're an emo teen Christian, I doubt that you're really going to like this film. It's about how rowdy gangsters in hoodies are destroying England, finding beauty in life, finding meaning in life, and other crap like that. There's bland, boring music that constantly plays throughout the film. I think the music was supposed to be emotional and beautiful. I found it annoying. Much of this film was annoying, really. I stuck with it until the end, though, and I don't feel as though I wasted my time, but I would have preferred to have spent it watching a better film.However, there were some real moments. If you're willing to sit through a preachy, sentimental story that goes on about ridiculous metaphysical feel-good crap, you get scenes with really funny characters, like an egotistical gay hustler who is predestined to die a horrible death, a sociopath who likes to make small talk about killing his wife, and other assorted oddball characters who appear and disappear just as quickly. Is it worth it? I don't know. Maybe. I think it depends on your tolerance for certain flaws and how receptive you are to the sappy, conservative themes.The writing is a bit rough, and it resorts to poorly-thought-out plot devices a bit too often. The characters are designed to appeal to awkward, depressed teens. The protagonist is attractive, but he has a single flaw that leaves him feeling ugly and forever alone. Please. These kinds of models with a tragic flaw do not draw my sympathy. It's like they're just screaming out for the shy teenage girls to say, "I will love you, tragically flawed model guy! I can look beyond your single surface flaw and see your beauty!" Beyond that, the themes of youth out of control kind of bothered me. There was a positive depiction of a former gang member, but the rest were all vicious animals that couldn't be reasoned with.My question is... how come you never see English horror movies about football hooligans or neo-Nazis?

Tcarts76 I give this movie a 7. I think the acting was decent, Jim Sturgess was actually quite good. The story is an ageless one but a rather good one, but I don't want to give away too much.Basically, Jamie Morgan is a guy with a giant heart shaped birth mark across his face. He is shy, avoids eye contact with people, and wears a hoodie whenever he is in public. Eventually the movie asks the question, what would you do, how far would you go to erase a disfigurement, etc.Now, here is the problem that blows away 3 stars from me. If I hadn't had anything else to do while this movie was going I would have shut it off halfway through. The first half was boring and takes way too much time laying the foundation about how hard Jamie's life is with his birth mark. It took along time to get to the better parts of the movie and the whole story, and by then the film makers could have lost a lot of their audience. I liken it to why most people don't raise livestock in their backyard these days. Yes bacon is wonderful and tastes delicious, but who really wants to waste all the time and effort of raising the darn pig for so long just to get a few nice pieces of bacon. Also there is some real poor special effects make-up later in the movie as it concerns a certain character.So, after around half way the story begins to get very interesting with a nice twist or two. Let's just say their is a price to pay in order to have his 'blemish' removed and it is not a monetary one.If you can bear with this one until the halfway point, it does end up being a decent movie.Like my reviews? Hate em? Comments, good or bad? Is there a DVD you want reviewed, shoot me an e-mail at : [email protected]

GL84 Tired of living in a squalid section of London, a man with a deformed birthmark makes a deal with a demonic figure to get through his terrible life but finds the deal changed and must confront the results of the changed deal.Utterly intriguing and inviting effort that gets so much right that it's far more enjoyable than expected. Utilizing a far more accurate and realistic depiction of a squalor than most of the types out there, with an urban Hell of gangs running unchecked, a lack of police presence despite their constant appearance, fires, burglaries and gun-use which create a very threatening atmosphere upon which the horror starts up. Far, far more brutal in tone than expected, though the execution is lacking somewhat but there's enough there to leave an overall impression. Once it changes over and gets the deal executed which renders him a lot more normal and strips away the urban Hell of the early stages, it looses it's footing and concentrates on far more useless areas, such as the tepid adoption angle or the clichéd romance that takes up way too much time, is dragged out far beyond it's usefulness and makes the far far longer than it needs to be, moreover the fact that this section is played with a touch of black humor that clashes so jarringly with the gritty realism of the beginning that it really snaps you out of the film and thus this section constitutes it's only true flaw. While it again breathes some nice points with a pretty good finale and some overall nice touches, the middle segment keeps this down somewhat.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and children-in-jeopardy.