Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Dan Hodges Although this film is very much intended to be based of off the "Final Days" of Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain, its strengths lie in the haunting and relentless misery of protagonist Blake.The fact that Blake is intended to be a pretty direct allegory for Cobain is largely irrelevant to the mood and feel of the film. You could go into this film not even knowing who Cobain was and it wouldn't change your experience with it. Blake is a very depressed musician on his last legs who has pretty much entirely given up on life. That's all you really need to know. Although there are references to Cobain life and death, they feel mostly superfluous and don't really add anything to the film. Final Day is ultimately a film successful in its understanding and presentation of depression and isolation but not as a film depicting the last days of Kurt Cobain. You will be disappointed if you go into this film expecting a good Cobain/Nirvana film.

vesavh This is a great movie. Long scenes. Not much happening, but then again, everything has a meaning. Think about an artistic film about Kurt Cobain's last days in the style of Sergio Leone. Which fits, as there is death lurking around the corner just as in Sergio's westerns. I don't know how this movie looks like if you are not aware of Kurt Cobain and his story. To me, it worked well. It's airy. It takes some elements about Kurt's death and makes them a piece of art. Long live Gus van Sant!The plot doesn't really count, and certainly not the dialogue - except in some places. It's really just a montage of feelings around the chosen theme and circumstances. Although it has a plot - no doubt. It's just not the plot that really counts. The most important thing is the place. Just like the main character is trapped in his big house, so is the whole movie trapped in some kind of place between life and death. The movie moves there and shows how the character makes that transit.

teryolawwashere The theme/plot/point of this movie simply doesn't work as some kind of obscure art-flick. Gus Van Sant uses the exact same framework as he did in 'Elephant': Long shots of boring everyday things that everyone does.The very big difference however, is that it worked very well in Elephant. The seemingly trivial shots of everyday happenings worked as a contrast to the disaster that would eventually come in the end. (And this isn't a spoiler because if you're gonna watch Elephant, you know it's about a school shooting.) Showing the young children interact with one another and their families for the entire movie made sense to give off just how unexpected and horrible the event must have felt.In this movie however, it's really just stupid and doesn't make for anything than a really boring film that you regret giving a chance. Absolutely nothing happens during the entire movie and then he dies. That's it. Im not exaggurating either, all we see is long shots of "Cobain" stumbling around looking druggy. He barely ever talks and when he does he just mumbles incoherently, there is no insight into his mind, he just looks doped up and then he suddenly dies. It's really just a terrible terrible disappointment and a failure of cinema."An introspective artist who is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation" is a very interesting topic for a movie. The right thing for Van Sant to do would have been to actually include dialogue with psychological insight into the mind of Kurt Cobain and really bring us into his head and what he is going through. It's not IMPOSSIBLE to do that because there are plenty of diaries, biographies and journal entry's that you can draw from to give some kind of a understanding into his problems with fame and himself.But no. Instead he chose to do something that is just wrong on every concievable level. Im not going to say that he chose to do something cheap, because I have more respect for him as an artist than that. I don't think he threw together a shitty movie just for the sake of it. But misguided? Poor judgment of how to treat the subject matter? Completely. 1/10.

Wizkids1 I was never a Kurt Cobain fan, and I have no respect for people who have talent and squander it as Cobain did, but I thought I would watch this movie to at least get some idea, or impression of what the guy was about. That effort merely proved to me that Cobain and this movie are a massive waste of time.Foremost, the Director of the movie seems to not want to tell Cobain's story all while telling Cobain's story. That is, we are supposed to believe that this is a "guy like Cobain" when clearly, the actor is following Cobain to the letter. But the problem there is there is not much to follow! He has the looks and mannerisms, but he leaves you looking at an empty shell with Cobain's face and mannerisms, nothing more.Worse, I always thought of Cobain as a bit of a talented moron - that is, okay, he was huge, but I hated his screaming music - none of it was even listen-able - and he looked like what he was - a troubled, tortured, drug addicted loser who made music for troubled, tortured maybe even drug addicted fans. This movie did nothing to take me below that surface to see how Cobain got that way, why he stayed that way, and why he squandered whatever talent he had.The movie gives no feel of any successes Cobain might have had which might have lent some clarity to his downfall - instead we are served up a large plate of "whoa is me" with some "Oh, look at my bizarre behavior" as a side dish, and yet we get no feel for how this guy got there, or decided to stay there.I don't mind movies that are trying to tell a story or send a message through an oblique format - that is, in this movie, we are the watchers just seeing things go by. But the director never ties any of that together and its as though we arrived in this life at one point, watched it fizzle, and we left - no understanding gained, no insight provided, and worst of all - the director wants us to accept the overall contradictory message that this is not Cobain, just someone who looks and act, and well, is him.The movie, quite simply, is crap. If you want to waste a couple hours or fall asleep at the movies, this is the one to see. Otherwise, if you want to see self-destruction and downfall in the Rock world, see Sid and Nancy, or The Doors, or one of the many other docu-dramas that tell this same story. But avoid this one unless you are as mindless and burnt out as Cobain always was.