The Comedian

2016 "nobody's a bargain"
5.8| 2h0m| R| en
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An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.

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UnowPriceless hyped garbage
Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.
Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
jack_lavelle I'm sorry. Bobby DeNiro can do almost anything. I found out from watching this movie that he can't do comedy. Some of the lines were pretty funny, but his delivery and timing were so off I didn't laugh. If Rodney or someone who lived in the blue comedy universe delivered the lines, well it might have had me laughing.I was only groaning. In one club scene, an on-stage comic is extolling the virtues of New York to a newcomer. "What's that smell?" she says. "That's the greatest city in the world."Well, to me, it's the movie.
moderni-kekec Don't believe the ratings. It earns much much more than a 5.6 . I laugh and laugh threw. This is my first , i would't say review ,but i had to write something because of the movies too low rating. Just watch and enjoy.I rated the movie with an 8/10.
sbsieber It makes me very sad that the mean spirited, vulgar, bathroom humour depicted in this movie could ever be considered the work of a professional comedian. Unfortunately, for all of us, it probably is. This is the lowest common denominator of humour. Makes me both sad and angry. The cast is fine; everyone does an adequate job, and there are a lot of cameos to keep it interesting - I loved Cloris Leachman and Leslie Mann does the quirky-charming thing very well.. DeNiro excels in the role of a low-brow, washed-up comedian - he is a professional actor after all - but I have no respect for him, and I think he has a lot of nerve criticizing Trump for being crass.
davidlyncheire 5.7 really! that's a real unjust and low score for this film. The film made me laugh and care about what is going to happen to the characters, Robert deniro has been in few bad films lately but i get the feeling that people just gave it a bad review without giving it a chance and naturally assume its going to be bad. OK its not the greatest film of all time but a 5.7 come on! Glad to see de niro in good form hope it continues in the irish man