Reviews

And I'm already calling for Ethan Peck's character to meet Jason or Freddy Krueger. FYI Ethan Peck's acting chops are completely non-existent. Wooden doesn't go far enough to describe how he comes off like a block of concrete.

And how does he leave for a three hour drive in the morning or even midday and reach his destination in the foggy dark of night? And instead of waiting for the realtor to come with the keys, he opts to pry the door with what might have been a jack handle.

Oh and it gets better on the stupid decisions side of the coin, when Ethan enters the house with a flashlight, but never thinks about turning on a light! Or when the realtor shows up to an open door and doesn't call out to him or better yet call the police about a possible B&E. And she wandering around also with a flashlight only to later turn on a light.

Only twenty minutes of foolishness and I'm aching for this meathead to meet his maker and the movie to end. Now I debate should I continue to the end of this folly or count it off as a big fat swing and a miss of a Brothers Grimm tale.

I read other reviews where they second guessed India Eisley's ability to fight the villains, but you have to remember that this is a action thriller movie and being as such small women like Scarlett Johannsen are written in with the skills and agility to dispatch thugs like the one here. Now if you want to harp on something that is a hard sell, that would be the character played by Jaco Muller who must have implanted a Lojack in India Eisley's derriere to be able to find her anywhere in the city, and able to carry her all the way to the roof top of the building and after that up to his little shack on the roof. And what's up with the forced and unbelievable bond that allegedly came about between the two. And his only dealings with her past was to ring the door bell setting up her parents killings, so I don't see that as a positive, but I am not the writer of this drivel, therefor I see no need to splain why she would be attracted to him period, plus he comes off as a stalker. So I have some issues with how these character are developed, and sleazy slimy stalkers seem to be the norm to a degree with more than a few movies that I have watched, and Jaco's character fits right in with the rest of cinematic stalkers.

Not necessarily a movie that I would see more than once, although I like some of the movie India Eisley has acted in, like Nanny Cam which she was quite devious. As I said from my perspective, this is not too bad of a movie, but with the right tweaks, it could have been a lot better .

Too many implausible scenarios to mention and let's not start with misogyny 2.0 with her first encounter with signing the artist, after that I totally dismissed this adaptation of the book as complete and utter BS. Staking their hopes on selling sex scenes as a filler for poor scripting as well as changing the artist ethnic background for selling points.

I take it that this artist has a tongue made of gold that she would have to take the rest of the day off, first with guilt and the shower to wash away her sin of adultery, only to further fantasize about him as her son comes home from a soccer match.

IMDb really needs to allow zero and below ratings for some of these pitiful excuses for entertainment being produced.

This is a movie about a talented ballerina and weak mother who knows that the step father has desires for the child. The mother catches the step-father in bed and in other sordid situations with her daughter but does nothing to stop it because she values a roof over her head and not the safety of her daughter from a perverted pedophile that she is living with.

While visiting and staying with a friend as she practices for a performance, the girl meet a young traveling performing artist who is also in town for a festival. They begin talking and hanging out much to the dismay of the stepfather.

The stepfather tries to keep the two apart, but finally after much thought and consideration, the mother steps up to the plate as they are leaving town and has the driver stop the car thus allowing her daughter the chance to escape this lecherous pedophile and leave with the young performing artist.

I found this movie pretty enjoyable if you can stomach nearly two hour of a whiny little man lying to his child hood sweetheart who moved on with her life. It was a study of weak male egos and a combination of chauvinistic manipulation of a woman who had private issues of her own.

I read one review which tried to place this "You tell a Lie and I will tell a Lie, and let's see who can tell the biggest Lie" with Neerja being placed in the same boat as Manu. I strongly disagree with that assessment of this movie, and from my observation of the goings on during that rainy day.

Neerja might have kept her personal marital issues private, and I don't blame her. But she was far from the outrageous embellishments laid out by Manu. Here you have a man who claim six foot in height, but is less than two inches when it comes to being a real man. So the scripting did a good job of presenting Manu to be the weak conniving little boy that he is.

As for Neerja, she showed to be the bigger person by giving what she had to help Manu's sister even with all the lies he laid upon her and how he took her on an emotional rollercoaster ride in his weak attempts to pull her away from the life she at the moment choose to live.

The best part for me would have been the letter with her jewelry which said if God had wanted them to be married, it would have been so. As it ended with her remaining in Calcutta and him sleeping at his best friend's house was the icing on the cake.

This definitely didn't follow the typical Hollywood format where women are portrayed as weak minded and easily manipulated by misogynistic men. So I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome of this Bollywood production.

More like disrespectful/ignorant/childish, which boils down to spoiled, self absorbed and taking out her frustrations on those closest to her.

I saw two people who took advantage of a immature child trying to act grown. Showing pure disassociation with the newborn child even as she deliberately caused unnecessary duress to her mother who was left to support her without the aid of child support.

The adoptive couple came off as sleazy and conniving. So this movie left no-one to root for as the child protagonist was not likeable and continued to self destructing until buyers remorse set up with time running out.

The ending was muddled and vague with at least myself wanting the child to go to the state, and not the birth mother or the deceptive couple who took advantage of her.

The dialogue was decently written, but the plot left out why was this child so hateful towards her mother? Or was it the cliched teenager who for reasons only known to herself showed pure distain towards those closest to her?

The mother's character was not totally developed as to why she allegedly drank herself out of a job as a beautician, other than last of child support for the oldest belligerent daughter.

Nor did the writers develop the connection between the sleazy adoptive couple, other than show two manipulative people and one ignorant self destructive child.

Although I am not overly familiar with Hungarian laws, I would have thought that her being a minor would have had her mother being more involved with the decision making process and when she changed her mind. Oops, cliched everything is not a steep uphill battle that wasn't explained prior to signing the papers.

Which brings her back to the funfair that she wished would stop coming around earlier in the film, leaving people to wonder the final outcome of the newborn.

I see Stefan and his relationship with Estelle as about as unrealistic as can be, unless Estelle is into being beaten and abused.

He's a slimy stalker who started out by helping his buddy steal from her. And with all these character defects, she still carries on a relationship with this immature loser.

So I don't agree with the assumption that this portrays a realistic relationship.

At this point in the movie, I am itching for this bonifided a-hole to get his comeuppance in a extremely bad way.

Some reviews relate this to hippie culture, but not from my recollection growing up in the 50's and 60's. Hippie girls weren't into violence or getting slapped around by a chauvinistic yardape.

The acting is a bit wooden with a large dose of misogyny to boot.

You can't help but notice how Eleanor Parker's character is weak frail, but also show a limited range of emotions.

Whereas Patricia Neal's character has a bit more of a independent woman which causes Frank Lovejoy's character to get his feelings hurt because she won't cater to his desire to dominate and control her. "Typical chauvenism that defines the republican party" Hence his pity party complete with tail between the legs as he skulks off in search of a weaker woman who will stroke his pitifully weak male ego.

Now enters Ruth Roman character who gets physically abused by yet another Sloped headed backwards facing knuckles dragging across the pavement Neanderthal. With the typical grabbing the woman's shoulders to restrain her.

Now Ruth Roman's character has a criminal background and shows a tougher side of feminism with a dose of substance abuse to cliche the part.

Both Eleanor and Ruth speak in hushed tones with little variance.

One thing about these older movies, stereotypical male chauvenism all over the place.

This could have been a better movie had it not flopped with a totally unbelievable cliched pairing of Kristen Stewart's character and Eddie Redmayne's character. Granted she's only 15 and inexperienced, but she was also creeped out by his immature and abnormal behavior. So anything past plutonic sympathetic friendship would be a stretch.

The plot and sequencing of flashbacks played out well. With the only twist that I did not buy other than the odd pairing of Gordy and Martine, would have been the maturity and the emotional development of Gordy from a adolescent with mental health issues to suddenly a well adjusted mature teen overnight.

I would have rated the film higher if these glaring discrepancies weren't part of the final product. Worth a onetime sentimental viewing, but not too much interest at least from me to warrant a second viewing.

I was quite surprised that there were virtually zero cliche's and was a well thought out plot for Fugue.

I was impressed with the acting ability of the female protagonist as she slowly regained her lost memories. I was also impressed on the interactions of the husband and wife as they navigated to various idiosyncrasies of her mental condition.

The scene at the beach did however leave me a bit perplexed with how the son vanished while right by her side, and she spent the next minute wandering around in a circle on the beach before heading up the path to the area where I would guess the vehicle was parked and found husband and child.

The best part of this for me would be when the revelation of what set her off in the first place dawned on her and the action that she took, was far from the usual cluelessness we have seen portrayed in past and present films.

This should be labeled as a fantasy flick, since it deals with supposed reincarnation, although the other brother didn't die.

And why is it that women in these movies lack braincells and fortitude? It's not like the older brother didn't tell how he met his wife to his younger brother, or the younger brother watched them do table sex.

But I take it that stupid people will miss the obvious plot holes. And now the girlfriend and sister in-law are going to play along with this Bull Excrement as if soul transference is a reality.

And as I suspected, the older brother confided with the younger brother his intimacies with his wife. But it was the girlfriend who sent the wife the original neckless and jewel, to which the wife was able to ascertain that she has been duped, yet the ending doesn't show her acting upon this revelation.

I didn't watch possession, so it's hard to say which one is worse. As for me, a Big Fat Failure.

Two reviews here, but neither gave me much to work with as to the true quality of this movie.

1. The acting is mediocre at best, with a variety of skill sets starting at okay but needs work, to I think you need another profession. It vacillated from cardboard cut out to block of wood, to totally asinine.

2. Directing/Scripting was very problematic as well with this movie as it wandered aimlessly about with the main lead protagonist fluctuating between being open to same sex colitis, to angerly telling her bestie to leave after a sensuous massage.

3. Plot holes, like one minute Sophia is making out with the soon to be deceased stripper wearing a completely different outfit from what she was wearing at the strip club, to later dancing with some other stripper wearing what she had on at the strip club

There was plenty of cheese, corn pone and cliched' ridiculousness to go around with this one. One of the poorest depiction of of cliched' idiocy, was the day after at the strip club while retrieving her forgotten ATM card. Even if one of the strippers failed to show up the following day, the fake gangster attitude and follow me to the cliched' manager's office was total BS.

I reached this degree of why this is not a good movie at. 47 minutes and 42 seconds into this movie.

On the contrary, Author is not consumed so much with jealously, as he is with the fact that Lena used him to finance her education. Even after she decided that she no longer had the desire to come home or continue her relationship with Author.

This isn't so much of a love story and more on the deception and mental manipulation of her childhood sweetheart. Lena could have cut it off with Author long ago and not cry broke after failing to make the de to keep her scholarship.

The plot and scripting was good, it is just whomever wrote the summary didn't pay attention to what actually set Author off. He sold his body in order to fulfill the dreams of Lena and she repays him with deceit and lies.

Although I don't condone Author's methods, I do however understand what drove him to that point.

I read all these rave reviews prior to watching this movie, only to find this to be another by the numbers "Naïve Farm Girl screws up her life falling for the lies of a city slicker".

I was rooting for this girl to have a revelation of common sense or at least listen to her aunt who pegged this clown for the self-centered bastard that he was.

The ending which was also the beginning with an added touch giving this POS a glimpse of the bastard child he ignored and the heartbreak that his selfish lies created. And allegedly lead to the bad health of the girl. And her predictable demise.

And how does one get drawn into a character and not see that Frank Aston was no better than his lecherous hiking buddy and I would have considered Frank worst than his hiking buddy since he did not even have the decency to send a second telegram stating that he changed his mind. As for Betsy, she should have stuck with the one who truly loved her and lost the most in this situation.