A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

That about covers it. Except for boring and stupid. Another cheap shot at white middle America. Are we getting sick of movie after movie written by dumbass Hollywood writers that seem to think that white middle Americans are the cause of all the problems of society. Here's a clue, guys. There may be a few families like the cliches here, but there are millions of well-adjusted happy normal families living in suburbs everywhere. The notion that you have to be a foul mouth tattood outcast of society to be a real person is really getting old. Besides the fact that it's complete b*******.

Based on a relatively low-key graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, Wilson is a frustrating black comedy that can't quite come up with the goods to match its leading man Woody Harrelson.In one of his best roles since True Detective and delivering his best big screen turn since he rolled out the cowboy hat for Zombieland in 2009, Woody Harrelson is a delight as the cantankerous, rude, obnoxious and somehow likeable Wilson.A perennial loser who just doesn't get why everyone around him is an idiot and can't quite bring himself to adapt to modern day life, you wouldn't call the character of Wilson a stretch for Harrelson to play but it doesn't take away from the fact that Harrelson completely nails his turn.It's a joy (often cringeworthily so) watching Harrelson interact with actors like Laura Dern, Judy Greer and Margo Martindale and as Wilson begins to gather a greater appreciation for life after he finds out he has a teenage daughter and realises he needs love and friendship in his world, Harrelson is up for the journey but sadly Craig Johnson's film isn't.Working alongside Wilson creator Clowes, Johnson has a tough time balancing the films tonal shifts between oddball comedy, life affirming drama and romantically tinged musings and it often feels like the film is uncomfortable in its own skin as we're taken along from scene to scene and scenarios that worked in the graphic novel don't quite come across as well in the film treatment.We never full connect to Wilson and his relationship with Dern's ex-wife Pippi or his burgeoning friendship with Isabella Amara as his estranged daughter Claire, which makes a large portion of the films middle-section feel rather so-so. The other issue is that while the film often is laugh out loud funny, there is a large percentage of the films jokes that don't hit the way they should, making the film at times awkward when it wasn't even aiming to be.Final Say - Wilson is a slight film, a small-scale character study of a man who's failed to see the meaning of life for many a moon and while Harrelson is brilliant in a role he could undoubtedly play in his sleep, the film around him just never clicks into a gear that would've made this tale something truly special.2 ½ amusement park rides out of 5

Wilson (Woody Harrelson) is a cynical crank. His only two 'friends' are moving to St. Louis. He leaves his dog with Shelly (Judy Greer) to visit his father dying from cancer. He tracks down estranged ex-wife Pippi (Laura Dern) and discovers that she didn't have the abortion 17 years earlier. He finds their daughter Claire (Isabella Amara) given up for adoption.Harrelson is good although the movie doesn't get good until he finds Pippi. It would be better to get there faster. Once they connect with Claire, the movie is funnier with greater stakes. The trio is fun but then the movie keeps jumping ahead and ahead. It would be more compelling to let the trio deal with their issues but the plot drifts away from that. The further away it goes, the less compelling it is. However, it does always have an interesting character study underneath everything and it does allow the characters to deal with their issues.

My wife and I watched this at home on BluRay, picture and sound are great, "extras" are minimal.I like Woody Harrelson as an actor, but many of his roles are for unlikable characters. I had hoped his role as the protagonist, Wilson, would be a favorable one. It isn't.As it starts out we see Wilson is bright but socially awkward, whether it is among relatives, friends, or strangers he has a knack for saying the wrong thing. He smiles, he seems oblivious to how he comes across.Add to that his dirty mouth, while a bit of foul language can be appropriate, adding a spice to the character, listening to him is like trying to eat a steak with way too much pepper on it. You soon lose track of the character and just cringe at his foul language. Add to that as the story moves along several other characters, including his ex-wife and his long-lost 17-yr-old daughter, are scripted with extremely filthy language.This could have been a good movie, the characters could have been developed without so much emphasis on filthy language. But lazy script writers rely on this trick, it is an attempt to mask their lazy writing.