Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

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

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

jm10701 I love watching movies with subtitles, and I'm very comfortable with profanity and with bizarre, absurd behavior. What I couldn't take about this movie was the terrible old-man makeup globbed like plaster on an actor who was obviously no older than about 50, and a robust, athletic 50 at that. Because of the stupid-looking, distracting makeup on a burly, middle-aged actor who could climb out windows and run, I could not for a second believe that that character was a real human being.If a movie is centered on an unbelievable character it just doesn't work for me. What the character DOES can be completely absurd, but who that character IS just has to seem real for a movie to work. A movie titled The 100-Year-Old Man cannot work unless it's possible to believe that the man is 100 years old.

Enchorde Allan is about to celebrate his hundredth birthday. But it is not shaping up to be any good compared to his eventful life, so he decides to escape from his retirement home. Coincidentally he ends up spoiling a mobster plot and soon everyone is looking for him. Along the way he reminisces about how he, just as coincidentally, has affected world events in the last century.Allan's approach is a very stoic one. Threatened at gunpoint or conversing with world leaders, he stays completely calm. And around him things just happen. This leads to numerous comic situations, and the movie is quite enjoyable. Not at all afflicted with the disease many Swedish comedies that seem to confuse comedy with embarrassment. There are few moments that had me laughing out loud, but it is subtly and cunningly entertaining through out the entire movie.The characters are quirky and well portrayed. In conclusion, it is likable and I recommend it.7/10

tabjeep Well this review interacts only with those who red the book.TO begin with, I'm obliged to say that the director of this film made some changes to the story which anyone who red the book will find them completely unnecessary, added zero points to the plot, diminished lots of funny parts and made this film completely spineless, blunt and unfunny.Some said that the act was great, well I'm not so sure about that. Allan's attitude in the book has nothing to do with the so-called acting of the protagonist. He looks completely as a corpse who's being dragged through the entire film. Some characters were added and I don't find the reason why? Some stories changed and were utterly twisted which again don't find the reason why? They sure had the budget but screwed up with the scenario. Pity, pity, pity that they didn't get this film up to the top, when it was clear that they had such an amazing funny story.

westsideschl If you'e close to retirement home consideration or even if it's a bit distant into the future or you just know someone in that situation this fantasy escapism will prove to be entertaining. If the bumbling escapades in the Pink Panther series is in your film dossier then mark up another reason to watch. Typical British understated dark humor. The twists are not very believable, but are entertaining enough in a slapstick sort of way to keep watching the movie, but like it's lead character, about a third of the way through the story seemed to fall into the "repetitive" antics doldrums; just plodding along. The ending just sort of petered out on me also; must be getting old. A film quote as our, supposed 100 year old with an acting age more like in the 70s, escapee finds himself heading toward an unknown destination, "The middle of nowhere is underrated."