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07/11/2014 06:17 par tellurikwaves

Celui ci ultra pénible...il y a de "l'humour"

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We gave up after 12 minutes (veinards!!)

Author: David O'Mahony from Malaysia
11 September 2012
 

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Its obsessed with sex, its crass, neurotic and just not credible. The characters are contrived, and my wife and I wished we gave up earlier than minute number 12. I'm sure there must be some New York families like this, but hopefully not too many, because this is a poor fabrication of a pathetic scenario that left if not caring what is going to happen next. We have lived in France - and never met anybody as bizarre as the characters here. The credibility of the customs scene is around zero- I've never known anybody that stupid. The wanna-be Woody Allen directing left Woody Allen looking good - and I don't like Woody Allen. We soon found something else better to do with our lives than waste it on this film.

Author: Chris Byrne from United Kingdom
27 May 2012

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When I read the blurb on what this film was about I thought 'Hey, Chris Rock, French people and a funny meeting with the future in/out laws. Sounds good to me!' How wrong could I have been? I know for a fact that this film is NOT a true representation of how French families behave and find it difficult to believe that a French person wrote it! Some may consider me to be a bit of an old fuddy duddy for not particularly enjoying unnecessary swearing in films but to have to read them in wonderful HD was a bit beyond the pale for me!

 Maybe I'm lucky and have only ever met decent French people, who knows? Would the 2 sisters in this film really have behaved and sworn the way they did had they been in Paris? Not very likely so why should we believe anything about the film if they do it in New York? Chris Rock played the straight man and throughout the film looked lost and confused. I honestly think that most of the time he was wondering what the hell he was doing in the film in the first place? I have rated this film as a 1 but only because Zer0 was not an option. All in all a MASSIVE disappointment and I will not be in a hurry to go and see any more films involving any of the same cast.

Author: shadrian1983
6 June 2013

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This is probably the worst movie I have seen in my entire life. Chris Rock is not funny at all in this movie. I can't even believe it's him and he agreed to play this role. It's nothing like his normal comedy. It's endless and crazy. All of the characters are horrible as well as the acting. I did not laugh out loud once. The girlfriend of Chris Rock is so super hard to listen to and watch. She is just so crazy and the acting is so bad. The only thing that is good about this movie is the name because it felt like it was 2 entire days long. If I hadn't paid for the movie I never would have finished watching it. We just kept hoping it would get better and it never did.

Author: thucy1 from France
30 December 2012

Oh my god. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen in 30 years. What is very rare with me, I wanted to leave the theatre quickly after the beginning of the movie. The last time it happened to me it was 30 years ago, I was about 14. But this time, for the first time in my life, I left the movie theatre one half hour before the end, because I couldn't stand it any longer.

I saw that movie because one of my colleagues like "2 days in Paris", and this one was its sequel.

Right from the beginning, I was dismayed by the vulgarity of the movie. The character played by the french actor July Delpy (who is also the director of the movie) is vulgar and insane, telling with crude words her whole sexual life to one of her colleague.

But the worst came after : her french family came in New-York to visit her and her husband. Her father doesn't want to take a shower more than once a week, he was arrested at the airport because he had a lot of french sausages hidden under his clothes. Her sister and her sisters' partner are sex-addicts and drug users. The whole family is a bunch of asocial, immoral, ill-mannered and childish people.

Well, one could say : it's just a farce. But the problem is that it's not shown like that. They seemed to be a typical french family, a kind of primitive tribe coming in a civilized world, the US.

I didn't expect to see that kind of french-bashing coming from a french director. But True, Julie Delpy left France a long time ago and live in the US since many years now. Seeing that movie, I understand why : she seems to despise her former country and her former fellow citizens.

I can imagine some US french-haters seeing that movie in the US, laughing loudly, and thinking : "I always knew that the french were like that, and it's a french who tells us, so it must be true !" I felt insulted, as if mrs Delpy had spit on my face. I'm not chauvinistic, but I don't like to be insulted, as anybody else I think.

Author: dragokin
27 January 2013

After watching 2 Days in New York i simply don't wan't to see the prequel. What amazed me, though, is that every single member of the cast did an excellent job. Even the script offers a fair amount of funny situation which leaves you with the question what went wrong.

In my case this ended up with Chris Rock (otherwise not my cup of tea) creating the most lovable character of them all. The French family visiting is a bunch of logorrheic maniacs. It actually didn't matter where they came from, since their behaviour has nothing to do with geography rather with psychiatry. Smaller characters break up this verbal orgy once in a while...

Author: chaz-28 from Rockville, MD
26 August 2012

French tourists are obnoxious, loud, dirty, and oblivious to anything other than their petty concerns. I was under the impressions these are adjectives for American tourists when they venture over to the Old World; however, according to Julie Delpy's new film, 2 Days in New York, French people are truly garish. Five years after her similar effort, 2 Day in Paris, a busy and crowded New York apartment is the setting for a very disappointing movie.

Marion (Delpy) and Mingus (Chris Rock) live together with a modern, blended family setup. Marion has her toddler from a previous marriage and Mingus shares custody with his own elementary school aged daughter. They live in a cramped apartment somewhere in Manhattan but appear to be financially stable. Mingus hosts a few radio shows and writes for the Village Voice while Marion is a conceptual artist who is about to open her first solo show in a ritzy art gallery. The show opening is the impetus behind the invasion of the unbelievable French relations.

Marion's father Jeannot (Albert Delpy) arrives with his other daughter Rose (Alexia Landeau) and her current boyfriend of the day Manu (Alexandre Nahon). Instead of comedic cultural insights or witty observations, the audience is saddled with farce and stupidity. They are delayed in customs for attempting to smuggle in 40 pounds of sausage and cheese. They cut their toe nails at the dinner table, use Mingus' tooth brush during some off-screen sexual tryst in the bathroom, and latch on to a middle school level running gag that Mingus's name rhymes with cunnilingus. I have been to France multiple times…where the hell were these people hiding?

Marion's art show is based on two themes, photographs of ex-lovers waking up in the morning showing how a relationship develops over time and the auctioning off of her soul. To the highest bidder, she will sign a contract whereby her immortal soul will be owned by another person. Sound familiar? It should; Bart Simpson sold his soul to Milhouse in a Simpson's episode. Way to dig deep for creative inspiration there Julie.

A film with Chris Rock and Julie Delpy with New York City as a backdrop has so much promise. Why oh why did Delpy write and direct a script which is unfathomably horrible? There is a sub- plot involving a lie about a brain tumor, the relentless antics of the French family, and the noticeable bad acting from Delpy. She was wonderful in the Before Sunrise/Sunset series, but perhaps she was distracted by he director role this time.

Stay far away from 2 Days in New York, it will just let you down with thoughts of what might have been.

Author: Patricia756 from Italy
15 January 2014

I like Julie Delpy and her previous body of work but this film turn out to be terrible. It seems to me because she is now an established successful author that she fells it is time to rest on her laurels and start to repeat the formula she used before to be successful, over and over again, pushing it to the extreme thinking it would work, it would be funny. Well it isn't.

The film seems to be promising at the beginning but soon began to be quite annoying, the characters are very stereotyped but not in a funny way, in a unimaginative cliché way, It seems to watch another Delpy film but one you have seen before, it's uncomfortable to watch and after a bit it gets so tedious that my mind started to wonder somewhere else and my body followed soon after . I rarely stop watching a film in the middle of it unless I feel it is not worth the time I spend watching it.

No need to say that the association with Woody Allen is inappropriate, to say the list; some people may not like Woody Allen but undeniably he is never cliché even when he talks about cliché and he has never done a film that is the copy of something already done, jet keeping his distinct and unique style. Going back to the subject, describing this film in few word I would say that it is very disappointing, not recommended to anyone, especially to Woody Allen's films lovers.

Author: Kinoymas from Spain
7 August 2012

I loathed this film as much as I loved 2 Days in Paris, a fun, intelligent and original film which I highly recommend.

I wonder what went through July Delpy's mind to write and direct a story in such a manner as to make it look like a long version of the Marx Brother's crowded cabin scene. There were way too many unbelievably stupid characters and way too many banal conversations going on at the same time. It was exhausting and, worst of all, boring. Not even the usually funny Chris Rock managed to save the day.

I will try and forget I ever saw this film in the hope of picturing a "and they lived happily ever after" whenever I watch 2 Days in Paris again. Fat chance...

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Author: Manos Petropoulos from Greece
15 October 2012

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I saw this film trusting the acting skills of Chris Rock...

Although this film was a really disappointment...

Boring,boring,boring and nothing to offer film is all i can say in a few words.

A sex-addicted old man,a psychotic girlfriend, a sister walking around naked and a man that tries to tolerate them...

Really bad script and even worst characters make a movie that it turns to be difficult to watch till the end.I made it cause i was curious to figure out if there was a point of all this.But the result was that i spend one and a half hour watching a big nothing

Author: Nakesdotter from Öland
8 August 2013

Okay... So I've seen Julie Delpy's Before Sunset, Before Sunrise and 2 days in Paris and enjoyed them. Sure, the films are very "chatty" but all in all pretty entertaining. Thus, I decided to watch 2 Days in New York. The film is just under one and a half hour and for approximately one hour and twenty-five minutes I was tormented by these maniac (and not the charming kind of maniac) french characters that were supposed to be her father, sister and the sister's boyfriend - who happens to also be Marion's (Julie's character) ex. It's pure horror. Really. At several occasions I very seriously considered just turning the film off, but I have this idea that every film I start watching deserve the chance to get better. Well... this one did. The last five minutes were actually pretty okay.

That's it. Five decent minutes out of ninety. Not really a good result, is it?

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07/11/2014 05:59 par tellurikwaves

Pas aussi pourri que le film d'avant,mais qu'est ce que je me suis ennuyé !

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different tastes I guess...

Author: bill smith from Canada
16 August 2012
 

Wow. I don't get the love this movie is getting here. I would argue that the Rotten Tomato reviews are more objective. Just my opinion- The trouble with this movie for me was the screenplay; the dialogue and characters are just not believable. The sudden outbursts, the random conversations- they were just bizarre. Oral sex on the bus, spitting on, and threatening a teacher without repercussions. It all lacked reality. The random animations, direct to camera speaking, and shaky camcorder feel didn't help. Watch Season 4 of the Wire if you want to see powerful, yet accurate, character portrayal and dialogue associated with this topic.This just seemed forced, in-your-face, and came across as trite. Again, just my opinion.

Author: alexulumend from United States
14 April 2012

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This movie was well acted yes-very. but there was not one single character who was a true stoic and kept coming back to embracing the positive and evolving as a human even the main character who was wise and kind yet was a coward in the end why must all the people in this film who are not drones who do have a conscience who do desire greatness also be doing actions that are so destructive and negate anything admirable within even though they are aware? the writer of this film has a very one sided bleak point of view that is weak the writer gives no hope thanks but we don't need another reason to slit our wrists.Tell the truth yes but than show people what to do with the truth -to use the truth as a tool to overcome, to know what to oppose to learn what is worth fighting for. guess what?

there are people in life who have been through very dark times and overcome them and are better people now.... another unrealistic aspect of this film is that no one has any regret I understand why some of the people harmed themselves with self loathing acts but when you have a realization that it is no longer what you should do or want to do you also have a period of feeling upset that you did that, the girl who was a hooker she would in real life have felt a period if not for years and years of deep sadness to anger to shock that she had allowed herself to be treated so horribly by others and herself yet in the movie she just goes from being totally screwed with to screwing herself over to being happy and healed just like that. we did not need to see suicide as the answer in this film because it is never an answer. again the writer makes an angel a hero out of someone who chooses to do the worst acts of all to themselves.

That's not heroic.. weather you harm another or harm yourself it is just as wrong. Worst of all was the torture and murder of an innocent cat.That was by far totally disgusting and the reaction in the end was "well the kid felt like the cat" again the writer trying to show some "honesty " by that as answer to harming and killing a totally innocent being-that was the biggest load of crap in the whole film-that sort of behavior is psychotic. I personally have had a very hard life myself, I have been violated, I have been abandoned as a child, I was homeless, I have overcome drugs and this is why I feel this movie is misleading un-realistic and weak because with all that happened to me I never harmed an innocent animal and I did feel horrible for any self destructive things I did after I realized they were wrong and I did not obviously kill myself as an answer.This film is not brave and frankly it could have been.

It chose to show those who harm and than those who realize the harming is going on but do very little about it.Everyone -every single character just acted like their were stuck, frozen in self pity,smothered by disappointment, paralyzed by pain.We can not choose what happens to us most of the time but at some point after we can always choose what we do about it.This film is just a dead end and a cop out.I wish I had not wasted my time watching it.

Author: Winston Lee from United States
18 July 2012

Having notable celebrities, an "emotional" storyline with a obvious, cliché message, tragic characters and cheap sappy music playing in the background and other bait that of which the Oscars or any award show would consume is the case of The Detachment, a 2011 indie film which won several awards.

We often see this type of deprived, artistic and emotional piece about a substitute teacher trying to help illiterate or with poor grades, poor or terrible school filled with stereotypes and bullies that at first, terrorized and bully the school and having one teacher turn it around in the end, well the director seems to get a great idea to make another annoying high school drama film or more specifically a teen- angst film.

Tony Kaye who is known for American History X tries to convey his elements of his previous films and try to make the most melodramatic and artistic movie that seems to be derived from other movies related to this.

I am not sure what the director is thinking, the fact that we see thousands of films like these and people tend to get suckered into the bad melodrama and the obvious plot lines with poorly drawn characters with terrific actors performing them. I mean how did they get people like Adrian Brody, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston, James Caan to even Lucy Liu — seriously, she went out of her way to get this terrible role? I felt like this was just a money deal for them and they were just told what to do.

I don't want to begin what the film is about, I seriously doubt the plot would even care less as well; it's about a clinically-depressed substitute teacher who's been moved to the most illiterate and bad school that of which is being sold off (or trying to) by Mr. Mattias (Isiah Whitlock Jr.). Adrian Brody plays the substitute teacher, Henry Barthes who is this clinically depressed lemon (as one of the students called him) who isn't like the other teachers although the fact that the other teachers don't fend off the bullies are just as much as him.

Anyways, after his father had passed away, he lives a fellow irritating, homeless female student, Erica (Sami Gayle) and has to teach a class full of stereotypes and bullies who try to imitate and scare off the teacher.

The film is mainly about this substitute teacher drifting off from classroom to classroom attempting to connect with his fellow students while dealing his own personal demons as well. Oh there is also a overweight artsy student that loves photography, taking pictures of Mr. Wiatt (Tim Blake Nelson) who has gone insane probably because of all the bullying.

The film consists of so much stereotypes and bullies that I am baffled why people actually like this movie. I mean, the first few minutes when the Brody character comes to class, there is a stereotypical black person with an attitude problem that threatens him and in the next scene, we also see other teacher, Ms. Sarah Madison played by Hendricks being spit on and threaten to get "gang-bang" by a black girl. It's really baffling that people think this film is "powerful and gripping" even though the writers of this film clearly play the "racism card" of having all to most black people in the school that have either an attitude problem or presumably be in some gang threatening teachers. It's like every teacher in the school are wimps that don't stand against them, even other movies that related to this plot have gangs in the school and there are less emotional people in those movies.

I cannot stress how irritating this movie is, everyone in this movie is either an annoying, irritating human being or some pathetic, emotional person that does not have an inch of hope on improving their students. I like the fact that the director try to convey Brody's character feelings through him looking straight at the camera and the cheaply done artistic chalkboard drawings that attempts to convey some emotional impact. It felt like the director just wanted to have this movie be drenched with awards and have a melodramatic message and theme, terribly implemented to make it dramatic to the audience.

In the end, people who think this movie is even good is either have bad taste in movies or some sucker who get cheaply suckered into the melodrama and say things like "the movie has a gripping subtext that of which could easily related to real life or not." So the fact that everyone in this film is some kind of bully or some helpless person relates to a bunch of people online? Wow, where did I see that be implement in a dozen movies that has been produced years ago? Seriously, I do not see the slightest thing right with this movie and I am usually prone to these movies.

Author: jnanasakti from United States
2 June 2012

The movie does not achieve it's objective to show what a state of "detachment" is; how it comes about and how it is dealt with. The problem is both script and direction. It's scene after scene of tremendous conflict, a lot of which I would say is exaggerated. Every f-in character is conflicted. The movie tries to round out some humanistic side - but the main problem is that it pushes too far in every scene. Granted I'm all about reality and the gravity of the human condition and being real...but in trying to achieve that, this movie overshoots - big time.

Reviews that give this movie high markings are from people who are impressed with the cast just for who they are (and they are great actors), and the desolation depicted. Rating on movie on it's ability to execute - the script and direction suck. Like I said, there's a reason the movie wasn't released in theaters...with such amazing cast - the movie must be pretty f-ed up not to make it to release and it is.

Author: lukas8 from United States
15 August 2012

I had high hopes about this film, but it left me feeling annoyed.

First, the positive. The cinematography is attractive and the scenes are well constructed visually. If you are looking for open-ended existential questions, you will find a few of those. If you are looking for Adrian Brody to do his sad eyebrow face, you will not be disappointed. There are a few cameos by other great actors, if you are in to that sort of thing.

Now, the negative. This film does not offer any valuable insight into any of the problems that it addresses. It gives a sensationalist portrayal of the difficulty of being a teacher in a failing school, the apathy of students and teachers, and the aftermath of childhood abuse. It emphasizes each of these problems without offering any kind of understanding beyond the expression of listless angst. All the vague statements that Adrian Brody says into the camera are certainly less than the sum of their parts.

I don't expect all films to offer insight. When the subject matter are issues that people care deeply about, it is nice, but if a film doesn't offer insight at least it can offer entertainment. Well, not this one. The story is aimless and meandering. The child actors are not believable.

Instead of watching this movie you might consider just sitting in a corner to think about how bad life can be, and then blame it all on parents without really trying to understand the situation. Same effect.

Author: bdem from United Kingdom
22 July 2012

I'm afraid I have to count this among the few films this year that I was quite excited by but ultimately left me disappointed.

I found a lot of it was quite cheap (mostly from a good deal of the melodramatic acting on display) and throughout the film I couldn't wrap my head around the choice of shooting.

The camera-work felt very out of place. For example, one scene could have five or six different angles with one using grain, another with use of quick zooms and then another with quick pans and the culminating effect felt very fake, as if belonging to a run-of-the-mill TV crime drama. It genuinely hampered my viewing of the film.

Adrien Brody does well enough despite wearing almost the same facial expression for most of the film and the few touching moments of the 97 come from his interaction with Grandpa. There's chemistry there but there are simply no sparks between other characters.

There are a few good cameo performances from Bryan Cranston and James Caan yet they don't seem to add anything to the film and this is amongst dubious performances from the supporting cast (Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks and Betty Kaye). There was a lot more to be left wanting from them. On the other hand, that's possibly the result of the writing as their characters don't feel overly convincing.

I hate singling an actor out as the worst but I can't not mention Lucy Liu who overacted just about every second she was on screen. She was the main culprit of the melodramatic acting scattered amongst this film. Cringe just about does it justice.

One of it's bigger problems is that it tries to handle too much. Education, youth, family problems, childhood trauma and prostitution amongst others and the result is that none of these issues are tackled full-on instead being treated bit by bit.

Bryan Cranston said he took his part in this as he liked the script and believed in it. I don't doubt his judgement, personally, but if that's the truth then I'm very surprised by the film's execution of it. A long way off for a director who (just about) gave us American History X.

I loathe being so negative about a film, one of which there were elements to like, but I guess it stems from the great sense of disappointment and dissatisfaction Detachment left me with.

Author: Bob_the_Hobo
21 November 2012

Mr. Barthes (Adrian Brody) is a wandering substitute teacher assigned to work at a high school that seems to be imploding with every waking second of its being. Teachers and counselors alike burst at the seams as they argue and fight about their futures, taking their counterparts with them on a long, angsty look at high school life.

Alright, I know, this is a deep and fulfilling movie that "I just didn't understand". But high school is pretty normal. The nicely built brownstone that the film takes place in just doesn't seem like a reasonable nesting place for gangsters and prostitutes. The faculty here are people that would have been fired long before they scream and threaten students in the way they are portrayed. High school just isn't this angsty.

Adrian Brody does an admirable job. He's a fine actor and proves himself worthy of his string of recent independent films. But his performance never seems live enough to keep you interested. His dead demeanor matches the rest of the film's depressed atmosphere. My complaint is not that the film is not happy, but rather that it never grabs you, except when it shows you some blood or sex, where you tend to be too repulsed to notice.

Brody seems to be the main character, but the film is more of an ensemble with several fantastic character actors. James Caan has some perfect scenes as a...teacher? Councilor? Who knows, he just seems to be the only character with any interest in his job. We suspend the reality that Lucy Liu would be long fired when she screams at students for not applying themselves. Marcia Gay Harden loses her job. Maybe. She spends most of the movie being sad about something, that was probably it. William Peterson and the exceptional Tim Blake Nelson are underused.

This is an experimental film, and the results are probably what the people behind it expected, perhaps wanted. But "Detachment" is off- putting in a bad way, and never seems to latch on to exactly what its message is. If it is perhaps that we are so detached from reality that we are a paradigm for these characters, then why bother to watch the movie?

Author: mittens-and-matches from Seattle
5 September 2012

First lets start off with the good:

- Cast: Wow, great cast...Adrian Brody, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston, James Caan, Lucy Liu.

- Acting: I generally like Adrian Brody. He is perfectly cast for this part. Generally there is nothing to complain about regarding any of the acting in the movie. Very well done.

- Dialogue: Good dialogue is important. Especially for a movie like this which is entirely character driven. Adrian gives some nice moving speeches and James Caan has some quite witty humorous lines. Overall, the dialogue is good.

- Vision: The creators of the movie were trying to create a movie that showed the reality of hopelessness in struggling urban school environments. I understand the 'detachment' they are trying to convey and applaud them for trying not to dress it up to much with a Hollywood tale. However, there are some problems with the execution of the vision which leads me to...

The bad:

- Script: If a strong script is important to you: avoid this movie. The story relies on sucking you in to the emotional performances of the characters to create its meaning.

- Poor directing/Tries to hard: Unfortunately, many of the scenes are a little over the top. In its attempt to make us feel we witness scene after scene of extreme behavior. The chance to connect with the subtle emotions of real life drama are lost and we are caught up in a melodrama. The movie tries hard to make you "FEEL" something. Its a little like a sales pitch for sadness. I found myself getting annoyed at certain moments like I was in a live showing of Dave Letterman and the audience 'laugh' sign pops up to tell you what to do only here its this is your cue to "feel this _____ emotion".

Overall, I found myself feeling like Rick Groen of the globe summed this movie up the best saying: "Ultimately, Detachment invites us to feel precisely what it warns against, detached." I enjoy curling up with a tub of ice cream and feeling depressed about life as much as the next person. However, I need my movies to be the whole package if they are going to take me there. Here about halfway through I found myself wanting to skip ahead some scenes because they were boring me. Indeed I felt a little detached.

Want to watch something that deals with similar subject matter yet doesn't overdress it? Watch HBO's series "The Wire" with a 9.5 rating on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306414/

Author: Connor3820 from United States
25 November 2012

I had high expectations for this film. Tony Kaye had not come out with one since the excellent "American History X" almost 15 years ago, In which he took on some very controversial issues and made a very ambitious and thought provoking look at how racism effects individuals. With "Detachment" it's as if he tried to one-up his last film, which resulted in a pretentious, contrived roller coaster of emotions and extreme characters. This film is a fine example of simply too much going on. The film is well cast, but that doesn't save a bad storyline. Stylistically the film must have been shot on a DSLR, and it looks as if the operator walked around with it freely in his hands for most of the movie, due to shaky camera work.We have numerous characters that are all dealing with what would seem to be their rock bottom. Instead of taking a few characters and delving into what brought them to this point, we have a movie that goes 0-60 in the opening scenes and stays that way throughout the whole film. There is no down time, it's just a constant bombardment of extreme conditions and emotions, which just doesn't feel real and is definitely not wholly believable. The reason I didn't give it a lower rating than I did is because It kept my attention the whole way through, but it wasn't for the right reasons.

Author: Chris L from France
30 July 2013

Tony Kaye draws up in this Detachment a dark portrait of a teacher's job and the US educational system, and delivers a striking but unfortunately not totally convincing movie.

The film's interest lies mainly in Adrien Brody's totally nuanced and excellent performance as a troubled teacher on the verge of breaking point, within a very good cast perhaps a bit too under exploited.

As for the script, it's not uninteresting, far from it, but the omnipresent darkness turns boring: after the hour mark, the viewer has enough of seeing all those depressed teachers and this completely depressing prevailing fatalism.

The other big problem is the cinematography, a lot too stylized, clearly lacking coherence in its approach and ultimately turning out to be too messy, serving the story badly.

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Definitely Not Anywhere Near a Classic

Author: siliconvalyguy from San Jose, CA
30 November 2012
 

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I actually had no idea what to expect from 'Killing Them Softly', as I'd not seen any trailers or heard any gossip or chatter about it online. So, I guess you could say I sincerely went in with no preconceptions or prejudices for or against this film. That said, it was simply one of the worst filmgoing experiences I've had this past year. The story that the movie started with and the two thieves involved in the card room heist were honestly the most interesting thing about the movie, but it was obvious that they were there as a backdrop (excuse) to bring in Brad Pitt's enforcer. Between Pitt's completely lackluster performance, James Gandolfini's weird drunken pervert of a hit man, and Richard Jenkins' worthless mob lawyer, they managed to suck the air out of every single scene they were on screen. I readily admit that I actually found myself falling asleep and then both wanting to walk out, while hoping there would be a much better ending to make up for the previous 100 minutes of stupidity. There is absolutely no redeeming quality within this movie. And the added inclusion of multiple scenes or audio of Barack Obama's election in 2008--Pitt is a MAJOR Obama supporter--were both odd and seemingly had nothing to do with the plot whatsoever, so they just made the movie drag that much more. I won't give away the ending or what happens to whom, but I honestly should, just to save all of you the pain of sitting through this horrible excuse for a paycheck for Brad Pitt.

Author: spelman-andrew from Dublin
29 September 2012

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I left the cinema three quarters the way through this film.....never had to do that before. It dragged on and on and on. The endless dialog that had nothing to do with the film was infuriating to say the least. At one point James Gandolfini talks about getting a divorce from his wife for a good ten minutes which is completely pointless and has no relevance to the story line at all. This is just one example of a constant series of ridiculous conversations that the film is riddled with. Throughout the film they seem to have some sort of political undercurrent in the background between George Bush and Barack O Bama which I couldn't get my head around. Whether Brad Pitt was trying to get across his political views or what was going on is anyone's guess. I have no problem with the acting in this film....what I can't understand is why Prad Pitt and Ray Liotta (both accomplished and celebrated actors) agreed to do this film. Please save your money and time and don't go!

Author: l m from United States
1 December 2012

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This was horrible. I wish I had known I was walking into a movie with an entire soundtrack composed of Obama campaign speeches. James Gandolfini's character was pointless. The shooting of Ray Liotta was the only good part, ironically the film died with his character. The murder scenes were well done, but very predictable. If you barely follow any real plot, provide an awful soundtrack, and push politics, you could consider being kind enough to provide your bored-to-death audience with some gratuitous nudity. Unfortunately, even the one hooker in the movie was unattractive and a little too fat for Hollywood. If you are considering this just turn on C-SPAN and beat your head against the floor for two hours. The end result will be the same. The constant anti-corporate rhetoric spewed by overpaid actors is getting old. If you are going to push some personal political agenda, at least do so in the context of a film that is moderately entertaining.

Author: smooth_surface23
27 September 2012

This movie was so bad, I decided to create an IMDb account finally and hopefully save other people from being duped by the positive reviews.

Simply put, this is a movie that never needed to be made. There is almost no story to it and what little story there is is told in a horribly long and drawn out way. This includes lots of conversations between characters that have absolutely no relevance to the plot among other things. One of the biggest pointless inclusions in this movie is the frequent clips of Bush & Obama credit crunch speeches that are spliced in virtually everywhere in this film. Although the movie is set right around 2008, there's no relevance to the story at all and it's almost like Brad Pitt is trying to make a political point but isn't really clear on what the point is. I'm confident they could've edited this down to a short story and told us the entire story in 10 minutes and it would've been enjoyable. Instead, it was 90 minutes of waiting for it to get going. I don't need big action to keep my simple mind entertained, but I do like my movies to have a good plot and a sense of movement. Lawless for instance doesn't move incredibly fast, but you are glued the whole time. This movie has none of it and I was not surprised at all to see 3 people walk out just over half way through as I was thinking of doing the same thing myself.

I really like Brad Pitt and I would struggle to think of a bad movie he's been in up until this one came along. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone even if it's free. I only wish I could have the 90 minutes of my life back.

Author: John Smith from United States
11 December 2012

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This was the most horrendous movie I saw in my life (I'm just a few years younger than Brad Pitt) and I'm not even picky. It was the first time I almost left the theater during a movie. I was bored to death most of the time just praying for the movie to be over. The only reason I stayed was because I was with friends and one of them was my ride. The movie is extremely slow with uselessly long scenes. The dialogues are definitely the worst ever, the over use of constant profanity is unnecessary, the story is poor and can be compressed in a 5 minutes short amateur movie and the actors are less than impressive. I left the cinema feeling ripped off and cheated.

Author: rico_87 from United Kingdom
13 August 2013

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looked a decent film when advertised at the cinema and duped me into watching once out on Blueray......... a complete waste of 90 minutes!! the story promised much, like the tense robbery of the card game and from that point stretches on into nothingness, the James Gandolfini character is beyond pointless and the constant reverberation of the Bush/Obama speeches throughout makes no sense or relevance to the film at all. I actually created an IMDb account purely to review this dross and try and save people from wasting their time, for people that are actively trying to waste there time I'd suggest the following activities as massively more satisfying......watching grass grow, watching paint dry or counting clouds.

Author: e from United States Minor Outlying Islands
31 December 2012

It is very hard to imagine that anyone would make this story into a movie, especially Brad Pitt, or Liotta or Gandolfini except for one reason.Pay me the money! The same way the movie ends. That was probably the best part of the film.

Not only is the premise just plain stupid but the whole story is like a bad episode of Sopranos except they spent 18 million + on the budget of this film that should have cost maybe 2 million like HIt and Run.. except of course.. the actors had to be paid top dollar.

Remove these actors and you have a b movie with a stupid story that nobody would sit through and it would be a total flop. Hopefully the director will pick a better story next time as he looks like he has some potential especially since Dominik did a decent job on Chopper... but this was embarrassing. If you are going to make a movie at least make it something meaningful that is at least entertaining instead of just more gratuitous violence about nothing. This genre is finished except for Tarantino who at least has creative misguided violent genius, and hope Pitt will follow his wife's footsteps and do more meaningful projects instead of this hack pay job. Truly pathetic. I gave it a 1 since there is no zero.

Author: estarx
30 December 2012

This has to be the WORST film of 2012 I wanted to sleep 20mins into this film. Pointless talking in this film. The actors I wonder what possessed them to do this film. Brad Pitt is surely on his way out. I will NOT post any spoilers because it surely ain't worth it. I was with my friend and people just started leaving one by one because it was that terrible. I fell asleep. If I saw this movie alone I would have left as well. How this film has a 6.9 meta score is beyond me. There are some scenes that are so so and that's about the only entertaining thing. The trailer is very misleading, totally misleading. This should have never been made. Any actor/ actress that has this film credited to their name will never leave the shame of this film

Author: foolath from Bahrain
7 December 2012

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I went to the movie but did not understand what was going on. I mean the whole boring conversations they were having, it was like some one come and hit me with a hammer I can't stay here anymore. The way Brad Pitt was acting was so bad, that all they focused on in the movie was his hair and wrinckly face. This guy should never act and he has destroyed his acting career by choosing this movie, I guess angelina jolie adopted so many children the guy had to choice. Save your money for another movie, if you have 90 minutes to waste. I don't think i was the only one who thaught this way, cause almost everyone left the cinema in the first 30 minutes.

Author: nathanblyth300 from NZ
18 December 2012

This film is just drawn out - ultra boring, and to make it worse offers an overdose of preachy political propaganda for US elections - Seriously the amalgamation of such is unnecessary for entertainment sake or even the plot. The undertones that they all drive Pontiacs (US manufactured doomed from the recession) to the background radio blaring continuous political debates grows tiresome after the first 20mins. Being foreign and not completely clued up with US debates, I'm still somewhat uncertain if the director was Anti Obama - but the punch line at the end was "America is a business - bitch" seems like the whole conclusion the director/writer/Brad Pitt wanted to make, and resonates Pro-Romy nuances. The plot otherwise is nothing short of dull, with the only entertaining aspects reiterated in the trailer. Best avoided!

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Academy Awards, USA 1960

BAFTA Awards 1961

Bodil Awards 1960

Cannes Film Festival 1959

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 1960

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1959

Online Film & Television Association 2005

Sant Jordi Awards 1961

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Sortie et accueil
À sa sortie en juin 1959, le film a été vu par 450 000 personnes.

Distinctions / Récompenses(source wiki)
Festival de Cannes 1959 : Prix de la mise en scène
Grand prix Fémina belge du cinéma
Prix du festival d'Acapulco
Prix Joseph-Burstyn du meilleur film étranger
Prix du meilleur film étranger décerné par la critique new-yorkaise
Prix Méliès 1959

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• Actors Compendium
• Cinefacts (German)
• CineMagia.ro Info - (Romanian)
• CINeol (Spanish)
• CINeol - Soundtrack (Spanish)
• cineyteatro.es - Info, synopsis, commentary, awards, photos [Boquerini] (Spanish)
• Confraria de Cinema (Portuguese)
• DVDwolf
• Fan Page with pictures, desktop images, and several reviews.
• Film Intuition Article *contains spoilers* [Jen Johans]
• Film.Com.Tr - Synopsis and Pictures (Turkish)
• IMCDb.org: cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles seen in this production
• Indiemoviez (Spanish)
• MovieMeter (Dutch)
• moviepilot.de [German Top Critics]
• myFILM.gr (Greek)
• New Video-DVD Film-Lexikon (German)
• SevenArt.gr (Greek)
• SoundtrackCollector - Soundtrack Information
• Spielfilm.de - Filminfo (German)
• Stopklatka.pl (Polish)
• Subtitledonline.com - article
• TVGuide.com
• Virtual History - Literature
• YoVideo (French)
• Zelluloid.de (German)

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• carteles.metropoliglobal.com
• CINeol - Movie poster (JPG)
• filmposter-archiv.de - German movie poster
• MoTechPosters
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• MoviePosterDB.com
• SevenArt.gr - Greek poster

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