Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

orenh99 A film with many details that lead nowhere, All movie scenes are predictable - and became to me a very slow paced melodrama that, I didn't really enjoy. the dialogue between the characters is dry, not developing, heavy. In general this movie is stuck in a slow is neither interesting nor intriguing.

mkd002 Streamed this based on a general interest in following Dan Stevens's post-"Downton" career. Owing to this film's totally amateur sound editing, I could not learn critical information about what these characters were like before the health change that became a key trigger for the whole story. Did not know how and why the marriage seemed to work despite hurdles that many would find crushing, or whether the Dan character had ever before shown signs of an aggressive, competitive personality. I just went from one mumbling, whispering personal scene after another to the not only clear but blasting country songs at the dance venue and totally audible phone sales pitches in the workplace. It's only in the indispensable character-developing scenes that this film leaves us high and dry and totally frustrated.From his IMDb bio page, it looks as if director Ido Fluk has only one 2011 feature-length film to his credit before 2016's "The Ticket," with short films and writing credits (including this film) and assistant directorships in his history. I cannot see how Dan's early (and awkward for everyone!!) departure from "Downton" has led him to projects this lacking in production professionalism and I hope he can right his ship very, very soon. His and Oliver Platt's work is excellent, but how many times can he afford to risk straight-to-DVD oblivion while groping for a long-lasting film career?

curtissewell OK, so my wife and I just finished watching this film and I can say that it was a little hard to not think that the movie was going to be not so great based on the ratings we saw for it. But as the movie went on it was surprisingly better than the ratings the critics gave it. I thought the acting was done really well and the storyline - although a little on the slow side, turned out to be interestingly thought provoking… How would you react if suddenly one day you woke up from being blind for many years?? Would your ambitions change?? Would you allow your own selfish ambition to destroy everything you previously loved?? Though it would be a change indeed, how would I respond to that change?? Well, it seems that is what this film is about. One man's response to how he woke up one day able to see. The movie does tend to focus a lot on James (actor Dan Stevens) much more than the characters around him like his wife, son, best friend, etc, but I don't think that was done too heavily. It just seems like the story was told in a way from James' perspective instead of from others. That kinda makes sense since he is the one who went from being blind to able to see again. Really it seemed the worst part about the movie was the music. It was too dreary from beginning to end (maybe with exception from the dancing music). Seriously, it didn't match most of the film and had they went another direction with the music it really would have made a better impact on this movie. It seemed it never changed from the dreariness, but it should have. It really only communicated 2 emotions - sadness and mystery. Though those two emotions were definitely a part of the film, the story had much more to offer than that… the joy and excitement of being able to see again, the fun James and his son had looking for fish, the hope and comfort James experiences near the end of the film, etc. Despite the seemingly wrong direction with the music and kinda slowly unfolding story, it's still worth a watch.

TomSawyer 2112 That's what I conclude. So he marries a woman when he was blind, and then sees there is more attractive around. So he was stuck in his career, and sees how he gets promoted when he sees how to manipulate people with financial problems?Jesus, this movie calls up to God so many times, and the rhythm is really slow and boring.Every scene is so moralistic, so foreseeable. No wit in sight. Except the confrontation with his old blind job buddy in the café.Of course you would expect him to become blind again. At the beginning of the movie, you see him recovering light from the dark.At the end, I expected nothing but a black screen for 10 minutes I think the producers probably refused the intellectual idea, because the director's name wasn't Lars van Trier.Shame, it was a good project, and the acting of Dan Stevens was really brilliant, but he was very lonesome.