Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
BroadcastChic
Excellent, a Must See
FuzzyTagz
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Salubfoto
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Nazz86
Movie starts wonderfully... the last 40 minutes.. good lord, terrible. The chick who plays the female cop is a pretty terrible actress as well.Colin Farell... eh... does better than I expected.Anthony Hopkins has a legendary performance as usual, but it's not enough to save this movie.
esplemea
This is extremly weird, during the whole movie I felt like déjà-vu... I mean it is a rather recent movie and usually my memory is quite good but I couldn't remember any of the scene or the plot itself before I saw it and yet and I knew that I knew them already o___O
Still rather interesting, maybe a bit classical in the plot but an good setting :)
I don't regret - maybe - rewatching it!
punisherversion1
Solace: Directed by Afonso Poyart. Written by Sean Bailey and Ted Griffin.Solace is one of those relatively high concept serial killer thriller that were pretty popular for a while in the 90s. Anthony Hopkins plays a psychic doctor who is helping a detective friend of his attempt to solve a case where the killer is almost perfect in his ways. This killer is specifically targeting people who have either terminal illnesses or severe suicidal tendencies. This had a decent enough hook to at least want to know where this is going. This is painfully by the book though. It hits all the cliche marks right down the line. Sometimes this is not something that will kill a movie. But the movie must have style to supplement or fascinating characters. This does not, this has the type of people you think they are with the shadowy tragic backstories you know they have from the very start. Both Anthony Hopkins and Jeffrey Dean Morgan play their parts well. They are believable as long time colleagues and friends. Anthony Hopkins is always watchable. His performance elevates the portions that he is in but there is only so much he can do. The biggest issue this movie has other than the nonsense psychic tete a tete going on between Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell is the camerawork and the atrocious editing. There are cuts everywhere, some of which were disorienting. It made things hard to follow and it was generally incredibly irritating. It ruined the tension anytime it tries to bring into the action or meat of the story. This is a miss for sure. It had potential to take the premise in wild and crazy directions. To have fun with it. It does not. Instead it labors in dull meandering threads with no idea how to get from one point to another. It attempts to amp up tension with extremely cryptic imagery and inane editing. I would say to skip this one. I give it a D.
helenehar
While flipping I found this movie on INDIE. An Anthony Hopkins movie I have not seen (said the older lady), literally one about which I have never heard. I just finished watching this movie and cannot understand the negative reviews. I thoroughly enjoyed the time spent watching. There may have been a few slow moments but all-in-all it was very entertaining; i.e., intriguing, suspenseful, well written and acted, etc. If you do not believe or are at least curious about psychic abilities, why would you have watched it to begin with? A number of movies are similar in slight ways but to me it did not occur to me while I watched this one. I see no similarity to Silence, Dr. Letter was not psychic but brilliant. So glad I flipped upon another movie with the phenomenal acting and presence of Sir Philip "Anthony Hopkins".