Simply A Masterpiece

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This line is in the movie and applies to it perfectly. It's even closer: Al plays a great actor in decline and it's exactly what's the movie turns to be: Al in decline or more accurately Al in a really bad movie. Indeed, this production is the usual BS that Hollywood feds up with since a couple of years: awful orange / blue grading: maybe it's a bit less exaggerated here as there is some beautiful natural light but when the grass is green, i still don't want to see it brown. the gay character: in the 80s, every family movie needs to have a dog; in the 2000s, every American movie needs a lesbian or fag: they are so much everywhere that you could expect it's the norm now. the shrink character: as the previous one, this one seems also inescapable and it's rather a gloom verdict: in American movies, it seems that personal problems means psychiatric ones and to have a better life, you must be cured by those incredible medicine officers! This analysis arises indeed when the character fails to work... Did the writer ever heard about economy and being old ????the wealthy character: forget the old ordinary, working people, now Hollywood stars want only movies that matches their lifestyle and you wonder why the budget are so important! the narcissus behind the scenes: Hollywood doing movies about actors, movies is just the ground 0 of imagination, filmmaking! With all their money, they are shameful lazy to bring new ideas! the amoral romance with a Grandpa and a young woman: Here the age difference is 43 years and they mall call it love, i call it light incest: it's like a Dad sublimates his pulsation with a surrogate daughter. I remember to have watched a stinker like this recently (Elegy with Pénelope) and i'm not surprised it has the same pitiful (and old) writer Roth! So with all that BS, it was painful to watch Al, all the more that he was doing comedy for one time! His Shakespeare moments are also great because he is really into that and i suppose that we are really close to the real Al (messy hair, slumped, bad dark dressed) but at the end, this movie is rather disgusting! Actually, with a feeble Spielberg (bridge of spies) and a poor Al, we must realize that American movies are in big crisis if not in total decay and fresh air, new ideas must come in if they want to inspire again!!!

Is like an stage movie; the problem is the inconsistence of the script, that is like an amalgam of parts. In fact, several scenes do not have a point to belong in the film; like the vet scene... I noticed the VW scenes too, two times at least; no doubt that is a commercial and have nothing to add to the script...seems that the producers needed money. Incongruous (but not arty) parts, like this girl, a lesbian girl that when younger had a crush with the main character (Al Pacino) and now out of the blue decided to start the affair; all the other characters appear out of the blue in the house of Axel. All these ones do not add anything, the story could be developed without them. It s so confusing that at some point you cannot decipher what is the reality and what s not. OK, that s part of the game, but here is where you notice the bad screen writing. Regarding comedy...there s no any comedy here; it s a drama, an stage drama that can works better in a theater than a cinema. Being old and starting to lose appeal, power, talent, etc is not a good thing; all we are going that way and this script is trying to point that...and there s no hope at all.

Al was broken, penniless and decided to shoot the worst movie of his life to keep buying stuff for his much younger lover, it is not worth seeing this movie. Is an awful copy of Bird man. Bad acting amidst a worst script. There is a serious mental illness in the movie the one that suffer the guy who wrote the script. In the movie there is an actor too old to play that make every body miserable, Al is the actor and the audience that is to say we are made miserable. Save your many and go see some thing else. I would like to tell you some thing else but I cannot, there is a heated pool in winter in Connecticut, and a girl from Baywatch swimming in it. There is a also ghost from some Shakespeare play that rumbles the story aimlessly without propose nor reason.

Why is Hollywood at the moment so concerned with movies of disillusioned ageing actors with plots that are supposed to be intelligent and witty but end up in farce. I don't care how reputable the actors, directors and writers are or how we are supposed to be impressed by stories examining the "Human Condition"... bottom line, just like the vastly over-hyped Birdman, this is a vapid and pointless movie not worthy of the people involved and certainly not worth my time watching. I turned it off after an hour as although I thought it was refreshing to see Al Pacino in something other than his usual dramatic roles, I didn't find any humour in it at all and if anything felt it slightly embarrassed for him in such a poor choice of role.