Brightlyme
i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Gurlyndrobb
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
dostromjaye
I give this movie a solid 9 out of 10 because it's not clear about the ending, now that being said I loved the ending. My husband and I discussed this movie for at least an hour and will watch it again. I won't spoil it for anyone but give this one a chance. Sometimes reviewers don't 'get' a movie so give it poor ratings.
cheergal
This movie had Paul Haggis' fingerprints all over places but not in the good ways. Paul just extended or limited his creativity around his signature paralleling various story lines then weaving into a monstrosity of who knew what. His Oscar winning film Crash by far is his best of this type of movies as a director. He is a better screen writer than director in my opinion.His talent was the reason to draw those A-list actors and actresses to this movie. However, he lost the focus of the main topic which I am not sure it's about love any more. He applied coincidences way too often to make the whole film congregated naturally. I wish he would not have tried so hard. And the part of revealing Olivia Wilde's character's incest relationship with her father was probably the most appalling and over the top in the entire story. I do not object to use hard subjects in films if only if they would serve the right purpose. This one was out of place except serving as a shocking element. Anyway, I wish to see Haggis' films other than this type in the future. I hope he could extend his writing skill to his directing field.
Slobodan Stamenkovic
Main plot begins when Scott (Adrien Brody) finds "love bomb" in small Italian café. Everything else happens around this plot and is called ordinary life with many problems characters have in life. Almost every character is loser except two of them who experienced lose before and they wanted something else. Do good deed, expect good. Do evil deed and expect a lot worse. Someone picks money but what about love? Someone picks love but what happens with money?You can live life without love but what kind of life, and on the other point of view how to live without money? Shakespearean, TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Good movie, well written and directed by Paul Haggis, good acting especially main characters Moran Atias (Monika), Adrien Brody (Scott) and Liam Nelson (Michael). Definitely watch this movie.
William Dietrich
It's the oddity of this movie's tone that makes it memorable. And it's a film that tempts a second viewing to see how everything fits. The central character, a struggling novelist, is in self-imposed exile in Paris trying to come to grips with a horrible family tragedy, keyed by a child's whisper at the very beginning and end. Other stories begin in Rome and New York, seemingly unconnected. Episodes are in turn baffling, horrific, or frustrating in that dream-like way in which a goal is always horrifyingly out of reach before waking. The clue here is the odd detail. An impoverished gypsy woman who inexplicably shows up with a different car in every scene. A hotel room fantastically filled with flowers. A young child agonizingly out of reach to a woman who is chronically late to critical appointments. A journal put in a hotel safe that winds up on a used book table. And so on. It's a puzzle playing out in one man's head as he tries to come to grips with reality that, unlike a novel or a dream, can't be changed. I think the director could have made the final puzzle pieces clearer at the end and created a much more popular film, but the acting is brilliant (especially when you go back over the scenes) and the storytelling unique. Not a popcorn movie, but one to think about.
