Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Jamie Barry Having seen the majority of Linklater's stuff, I was going into this with high expectations, however a little concerned that the whole film was shot on a camcorder. Coming out of it the film managed to destroy my concerns and live up to my high expectations, amazement the end result. Beautifully written, acted and superbly paced, you completely forget that there's only one location, shot with a piece of equipment literally everyone has in their attic gathering dust. It really proved to me that a great story, characters and writing outweighs everything, truly representing "it's not what you use, but how you use it". Mad respect gained for Richard Linklater which I honestly didn't think could get any higher.A must see!!

Brina223 Good plot. Strong performance by Ethan Hawke. And Uma Thurman and Robert Sean Leonard were both equally meticulous. It's hard to guess what you're in for. I watched this movie with no prior expectations and the plot confirmed that it's the correct way to watch a movie like this. With that said, sometimes the movie feels a little slow, albeit it's not that much of a problem because the movie soon picks up pace and catches your attention back.Don't go looking for moral lessons in it, though if you look hard enough you may find some.Overall, a fantastic movie totally driven by marvellous plot and strong performances. In the end, I came out jollier and more refreshed than I was going in.

Boba_Fett1138 In its sort this is simply a good movie. Still not really my cup of tea though, I'll admit.This movie is like a filmed stage-play. It's set at only one location and the entire movie only features 3 characters in it. This of course means that the movie gets entirely driven by its characters and dialog. It's a small and independent movie, that nevertheless still had some big name actors involved with it.Movies like this, that are basically just filmed stage-plays, don't work out much normally. It's not really hard to see why. The movies are slow and they tend to drag with its overlong dialog. Besides there are very little things you can do, movie technically-wise, with a story that is set at only one location. You can tell that the director tried to make the movie more dynamic and lively by putting in some unusual camera-work that however to me only worked out annoying and distracting, as often would be the case with an independent movie that's all too aware of itself.This movie also does really start offs slow and also sort of uninteresting. At first it seems nice how these characters are talking and interacting with each other, which seems realistic at all but it also gets tiresome pretty fast, also since the dialog is basically going nowhere. I don't think I have ever heard the word 'why?' uttered so much in a movie. Nevertheless, once the movie gets over its slow point and the whole point of the movie its story starts to become more obvious, the movie itself becomes a far more interesting and also really better one to watch. The story does not disappoint, even though it of course is all being kept very small and simple. It's simply an effective movie at what it tries to be- and to achieve with it.A good movie within its sort.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

robert-temple-1 What an amazing experience this is! Stephen Belber's screenplay, based on his play, is magic, pure magic. Richard Linklater, with his daring direction, has done the impossible and made a totally compelling film with only three characters in a single dreary motel room. How does one do that? How would you ever get funding for such a crazy project? This is just about as extreme a cinematic risk as it is possible to take. But they more than pulled it off, they triumphed. And by 'they' I include the three spell-binding actors: Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman. What a showcase of acting genius this film is! It is impossible to fault any of the three in even the slightest flicker of a facial muscle, or the slightest whisper of dialogue. One wonders whether they may possibly have rehearsed for six months and all lived together day and night to do this. Were they in fact cooped up in that motel room for the duration of the shooting? I would believe it. This film goes beyond honesty, it goes beyond revelation, it goes beyond nakedness and baring of an actor's soul, it is an X-ray film, or even a gamma-ray film, where every organ can be seen, and every pulsation or heartbeat viewed through the transparency of the shimmering and aetherial forms which they all have. One wonders whether Belber may have lived through this. Can he possibly have imagined it? Could anyone? Uma Thurman meets these two fellows for the first time in ten years, since high school. They inflict their traumas on her, and she inflicts hers on them. This is mutual laceration which is as brilliant as that found in Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', which may have inspired Belber. Thurman's character has pride, and does not wish to be dragged into the open admission of a past indignity, whereas Hawke's character is driven obsessively to expose it, ostensibly in her interests, but really in his own. Leonard's character is in a way the hapless victim of both, although he was the perpetrator and the original guilty party. The psychological dynamics of all this are as complex as a NATO war game. We are on the edge of our seats every second, or we are if we are interested in human nature. This is spectacle without concession. This is raw, seriously raw. Everything is ripped away here. This is what might happen at the Day of Judgement. There is nothing left to hide.