Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

LeonLouisRicci This is a role that Billy Bob Thornton could play in his sleep and maybe he did, it's hard to tell. But then again, most of the cast seems to be only a few steps from lethargy. Even the inner city Black kids are unbelievably restrained. There is a lot going on here that is unbelievable.The nonthreatening environment in an alley alienated from rude behavior, or for that matter a city slice of life society that seems to exist in some sort of nether-land that is somehow protected from dirt, stench, and bad behavior. It is a soft spoken world where no one shouts or gets really angry, and when they do it is done (as in the inevitable ending confrontation) with a laid back, laconic style.The whole film plays this way and would have worked much better as a play. But even then it would be such a superficial study of the most deep emotions delivered in such a subtle way, that you can almost see the audience straining for some kind of insight or verisimilitude.There is not much answered and ambiguity can be an asset, but this is just too shallow and serene to be anything more than a sleepwalk through a little place in a fantasy land called Redemption where nothing is real or even interesting.

d w A real contender for the worst movie ever made. Neck and neck with "Plan 9 from Outer Space." The big difference being Plan 9 was made for $500. Pretty much everybody associated with this movie could arguably deserve to be shot. Too bad about losing Morgan Freeman! A real contender for the worst movie ever made. Neck and neck with "Plan 9 from Outer Space." The big difference being Plan 9 was made for $500. Pretty much everybody associated with this movie could arguably deserve to be shot. Too bad about losing Morgan Freeman! How do films like this get made? Should the geriatric hamster who checks the scripts be replaced? Possibly with a grade 2 class somewhere in Alaska? Well that's OK. So long as millions got spent. too bad about it being a vomit sandwich.

jpschapira "Levity" is about redemption; it is about a lot of things inside something ironically simple, about philosophy and the human mind, about thoughts, second chances and about many other things if I want to say them. It's also one of those pictures with a cast of terrific actors who got interested in the project for some reason and did it. It is worth it, if you like slow and detailed stories that are easy to understand f you don't think much; kind of like "The Constant Gardener". But "Levity" is different from 'Gardener' in the way that things are more difficult to understand; the film is truly philosophic. The music, a mix of powerful songs, is a key element in the development of the story, which maintains a mood of depression and sadness.The story was written by Ed Solomon, who also directed. What is interesting and discussable about Solomon is that he seems to have saved his best lines and ideas for his first movie as a director, because he has written nothing like this in the past. His movie credits as a writer include: "Men in Black", "Charlie's Angels" and "Super Mario Bros", among other films that are not better than this one, which isn't great itself.You like the movie because of its honesty; the honesty of its story, of its characters, of its images. The frames and sceneries are so beautiful and so clear that you are not able to take your eyes off the screen; maybe Roger Deakins (director of photography: "The man who wasn't there", "A Beautiful Mind") has something to do with it. Then you've got the terrific cast, which makes the movie even more watchable. I was surprised that Morgan Freeman's voice is recognizable over a phone. Freeman plays a role in the film, which he also produced. At the top of his game and in the platform of a calm man; he speaks his lines as if they weren't Ed Solomon's but his own. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Manuel, the main point of the movie. Thornton, an actor who can go from peaceful ("The man who wasn't there") to totally crazy ("Bad Santa"), finds himself closer to the side of the movie in black and white than to the one in color, if you know what I mean; and he does it perfectly well; I still wonder how he studies a role, how he constructs it.Holly Hunter is the female element. Hunter is the kind of actress who can pass totally unnoticeable in a film, but however leaving you a big impression. I admire that quality in a performer; and Hunter portrays her role so normally, that she comes as the closest to a human being in the picture. Then we have the talented Kirsten Dunst, over the edge as most of the time, and creating another good character with a lot of authority and commitment. As it looks like, "Levity" can't fail; but it's not going to blow your mind off. If that pleases you

andrew-676 Sorry, Noel - the reason "why this misses the mark for so many people" isn't any of the clever reasons you give - it's because, quite simply, the film is unadulterated crap. A waste of some of the finest talents Hollywood has to offer. And a waste of the evening I spent watching it when I hired it out on DVD, misled by comments like yours that I would find more in it that met the eye of the mainstream media reviewers who originally gave it the thumbs down. The film tries to be very clever by concealing from you what is really going on, and does this so well (or badly, depending on your perspective) that you are well into it before you realise that, in fact, nothing is going on at all.