The Worst Film Ever

Crappy film

best movie i've ever seen.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I really don't have much of any complaints when it comes to the overall films story.Simply put,I was intrigued from the films beginning,throughout the film,to what I thought to be a good ending.I must say though however,that I was expecting more from the Male Leader,played by Alexander Skarsgard.It felt like there should have been more depth to his character & his leadership role-it felt,weak in some way to me.He did do a decent acting job in the film,although,it felt like he was overshadowed either intentionally or unintentionally,by the characters played by Both Ellen Page & Brit Marling. Without giving away spoilers,the movie had me thinking Both:that what they were doing,was an agreeably,&understandable Fight!Yet,at the same time,morality-wise kicks in too,to where your inner turmoil is thinking its the wrong way to go about it.But,yes,as you watch the film,the reasons and plots thicken as you continue into the film.Making it a worthy watch IMO!

It is difficult to review such a movie without spoilers, but I shall try. Terrorism is always terrorism. There is no excuse for it. This is a silly, pretentious movie that tries to justify anarchy and not in an interesting way. Of course pharmaceutical companies shouldn't be poisoning people, but poisoning them back solves nothing. The acting is not bad. The writing and direction are feeble.The characters are unbelievable and totally one-dimensional---either all good or all bad. Not all young people are saints. Not all middle-aged people are evil polluters. Not all policemen are corporate lackeys. Let's face it, it has all been said before and in more interesting ways. The action is slow- moving and uninteresting. Watch something else.

Well, I rather liked The East. It was not boring, and although it definitely had an ax to grind and was strongly slanted in favor of activism and against corporatism, at least it attempted not to serve as a "spiritual adviser" to terrorist groups, so hopefully the director will not be taken out by Predator drone.There was an obvious effort here not to "drink the koolaid" while calling out corporate greed and, more specifically, the evil and profoundly mercenary private security companies made possible by Dick Cheney's LOGCAP. So the group, which did in fact dose the spy with some sort of drug (LSD?), is not really glorified, and their hypocritical and self-defeating tactics are criticized quite clearly. I would say that the film succeeds in shedding some light on radical activist groups, but it is misleading to suggest that the one examined here matches the profile of "anarchists". These young people seem more like disenchanted and to some extent discarded outsiders than moral crusaders. They strike me as the very same types of people who were lured into Charles Manson's murderous cult some decades back. We learn at the very end of the film, in a super-rushed five-minute riff, that the main protagonist has found her own way. She seeks out private contractors and converts them to the point where they find legal ways to expose their employers' clients. Truly a film which believes in justice and truth Big Time (as Cheney himself would say), but also that one can come to "see the light" while being guided by someone who is partially blind--at least to the errors of his own ways.

As a big fan of Sound of my Voice, I'm interested in this director. The reviews for this really made it seem like a really by-the-numbers, formulaic, but decent spy thriller. It's definitely following a formula, but it's not as thin as the reviews made it out to be. It's not Sound of my Voice, by virtue of it just not being as interesting thematically and plot-wise as that film, and not as atmospheric and all around more creepy in its vibe. But it's better than the Hollywood dreck that we'd be sure to see, so in that regard it succeeds. Brit Marling is very good, as usual and unsurprisingly. I recommend this, yeah, and hope the director continues to make interesting, well-rounded films