TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

tomas-nt So I never wrote a review before, but I just felt I needed to write one for this film. I have to say that I'm generally very critical about comedies because they seem to me just stupid and the stories are too often absolutely void of any meaning. I usually don't like comedies. In fact, I'm usually too critical about any kind of movie. I'm too critical about people around me. I'm too critical about life in general. I'm too critical about anything at all. And that's part of the reason why I needed to watch this so badly. I tend to appreciate films and art in general that seem powerful, tragic, dramatic, that capture the depth and tragic beauty of life and existence. This film is the absolute opposite in a way and yet it reached much deeper. The whole ambient of the film is very good. It's very relaxed, very careless, and leaves you in a great mood and happy about what you have. In a way, it reminds me of the Big Lebowski. It reminded me in a very heartfelt way that life isn't about achieving, winning or loosing, it's not so much about the moments of sudden change (like death, or a separation, or the loss of a loved one) which we usually overvalue, but a lot more about the nice moments which we overlook - the in between. The film is an in between moment. The characters are in some kind of quest. But the way it's shown to you makes you realize that in no way the final point of the quest is in any way more important than the moments in between. I absolutely loved the ambient and the characters. They're just enough to the crazy side and just enough down to earth. Also, the way some parts of the plot seem to make not so much sense or are a bit absurd just adds up to the nice carefree feeling. And obviously also the way that death or the afterlife is portrayed. I know I'm giving an absolutely personal and subjective perspective of the film. But I felt I should say this because this film just reminded me or even made me realize that life isn't really a tragedy in a moment when I most needed that. Watch this if you need to feel good (: I loved it. 9/10 (which I don't give easily and is the maximum I've ever given)

supermaggie I really gave this movie a chance, but bottom line there is only one word to describe it: ridiculous. The story is ridiculous - and don't get me wrong, I appreciate simple or strange stories and settings, but this movie hardly has the quality of "Straight story" or a Jarmusch film and the like. It is just a painfully boring and meaningless journey, despite the serious/relevant premise, with no real point/destination and no fun ride getting there(wherever that is). Beside the unsatisfactory story a main flaw of the movie is the cast: Eugene is just lacking any charisma (I would have expected/could have imagined someone like Joseph Gilgun, he would have been fun) and the dumbest casting decision: Leslie Bibb and Shannon Sossamon. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy beauty wherever it shows, and if this was a movie about Studio 54 or the battles in the model business, they would have been perfect, but in a movie with such an important issue/an important premise, set as a story about an (because it concerns) everybody (and Patrick Fugit is a perfect cast, he is an everybody, do not get me wrong (again), I am not saying he isn't cute, he is a great actor (one of the best- and we got one less after the incredibly tragic death of Anton Yelchin - and he has tons of talent and charisma, but he is not crazy handsome, and this is good/perfect for the movie, but) in such a movie you cannot cast ridiculously beautiful women - it destroys all that is left of credibility and charm that this story could have had/should have had. The female cast (and I love Leslie Bibb, but not in this role) does not fit the topic, does not fit the story and does not fit the male lead - but the male decision makers are too superficial to see this, machismo all over again. This movie is no Indie gem, it is a sell-out - shame on you!

Steve Pulaski NOTE: This film was recommended to me by Glen Malec for "Steve Pulaski Sees It." One of the recurring theological debates is where a person who commits suicide is destined to spend eternity; the concept of a person killing themselves has disrupted the dichotomous notion that good people have their eternal souls rest in heaven whilst bad people have their eternal souls rest in hell. In a Christlike sense, a suicidal soul should still go to heaven if they found themselves victim to the pressures of life, or worse, an unrelenting mental illness. In a sense pertaining more towards the Christian doctrine, however, somebody who commits suicide should perhaps go to hell, for their action has made it so they can no longer serve God, in addition to disrupting the sanctity and safety of their body, the temple of God.In Wristcutters: A Love Story, however, people who commit suicide are sent to what is essentially purgatory. It looks largely the same as the real-world, only far bleaker and everyone lacks the ability to smile or even grin and no stars decorate the night sky. This is where we, the audience, find ourselves following Zia's (Patrick Fugit) successful suicide triggered by the recent breakup with his girlfriend. Zia finds himself more miserable in this world than he was in the previous, as he slogs away each and every day with his roommate Eugene (Shea Whigham), a hasbeen rockstar who killed himself by pouring a beer onto an electric guitar.One day, Zia learns that his ex-girlfriend Desiree (Leslie Bibb) has killed himself, which motivates both him and Eugene to take a road-trip across this wasteland to find her. Along the way, they pick up a hitchhiker named Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon), who has just found herself in this world and is searching for the "people in charge" in order to be dealt another hand at life.Wristcutters has the potential to be a seriously downtrodden film, encapsulated in its own misery so deeply that it becomes an unenjoyable experience. It's the kind of material that treads dangerous waters, where if it goes much deeper it risks being too caustic or offensive, but if it lies dormant and sticks to safer material, it risks being too shallow. Early scenes showing Zia's uneventful daily life are some of the most interesting up until he meets Mikal, for we see the real sadness that seems to simply plague him. He claims he thinks more about Desiree now that he has killed himself, and dictates to us through narration that he can just imagine her distraught, but finding solace in cute, romantic sex with other men. That thought eats at him, and writer/director Goran Dukić puts us in the position of a true voyeur; one who witnesses something troubling occurring but is ill-equipped to do anything about it.Patrick Fugit does a nice job as the lead here, playing disconnected and completely unmotivated to do anything. Also very much an engaging presence is Shannyn Sossamon, who comes in just at the right time in the film to prevent it from being a mopey slog. The issue with Wristcutters is despite two very talented performers, it never officially crosses over from being an initially miserable slog to a bleakly funny dark comedy. The film is filled with deadpan, as one would expect, but its joke are never too funny or enlightening to really find amusing, and some frustration builds as the purgatory these characters inhabit goes overlooked in favor of more alone time with the characters.This is the kind of material that really would've benefited from the hand of Mike Judge, who has already proved himself to be a master of satirical comedy, taking jabs at workplace drudgery, eco-friendly liberal conventions, and shallow consumerism. The idea of suicide isn't the first concept for a comedy, but like all ideas, an appropriate approach and direction is always possible to make humor out of the darkest subject. Dukić is so close to striking gold with Wristcutters, however, he seems to be perpetually digging around it as he tries to find something enlightening or relevant to say.Starring: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Leslie Bibb, and Tom Waits. Directed by Goran Dukić.

leomilan Although the movie starts off in a slow weird way, once you watched through you'll learn to like the characters and love their friendship. WristCutters is worth watching.Despite it's box office earnings "wrist cutters" is fun and takes the audience on an adventure through the dreary afterlife in search for Zia's love. The acting is good and the story is excellent for a low budget movie. WristCutters is not long and has just the right amount of "funny" leaving you wanting more.If you like dark comedies, romance and friendship you should without a doubt see WristCutters.