Fantastic!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This film tells the story of a slacker stuck in a California-like purgatory for people who killed themselves. Kinda started to watch this film because a lot of interesting side characters from different films ended up acting here (Fugit and Sossamon to name a few) but I ended up being very disappointed. Given the premise has some promise, it just never took off into something interesting and worthwhile. Everything about this film is very mediocre and stale.Likewise , the acting minus that Russian guy in the film is very uneven and uninspired and the story is haphazardly paced and lacks tension to make it something more than what the film offers. Overall, the film is just too safe and basic for its own good but tolerable if interested. [2.5/5]

I really gave this movie a chance, but bottom line there is only one word to describe it: ridiculous. The story is ridiculous - and don't get me wrong, I appreciate simple or strange stories and settings, but this movie hardly has the quality of "Straight story" or a Jarmusch film and the like. It is just a painfully boring and meaningless journey, despite the serious/relevant premise, with no real point/destination and no fun ride getting there(wherever that is). Beside the unsatisfactory story a main flaw of the movie is the cast: Eugene is just lacking any charisma (I would have expected/could have imagined someone like Joseph Gilgun, he would have been fun) and the dumbest casting decision: Leslie Bibb and Shannon Sossamon. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy beauty wherever it shows, and if this was a movie about Studio 54 or the battles in the model business, they would have been perfect, but in a movie with such an important issue/an important premise, set as a story about an (because it concerns) everybody (and Patrick Fugit is a perfect cast, he is an everybody, do not get me wrong (again), I am not saying he isn't cute, he is a great actor (one of the best- and we got one less after the incredibly tragic death of Anton Yelchin - and he has tons of talent and charisma, but he is not crazy handsome, and this is good/perfect for the movie, but) in such a movie you cannot cast ridiculously beautiful women - it destroys all that is left of credibility and charm that this story could have had/should have had. The female cast (and I love Leslie Bibb, but not in this role) does not fit the topic, does not fit the story and does not fit the male lead - but the male decision makers are too superficial to see this, machismo all over again. This movie is no Indie gem, it is a sell-out - shame on you!

Sorry for my poor English first. I just cant helping expressing something since i am attracted by the film so much. It was my friend who told me there was a fantastic movie named Wristcutters: a love story)That friend is a artist who paints children fairy tales. he told me it is an amazing movie that you may like. The first time i watched it, i fallen asleep. and can not get any of the point in the film at all. and as i trying to figure out what is the spotlight attracts my friend so much, i found myself totally absorbed by this odd film. as i watching i found it not odd any more, i found every minute every scene interesting. The total film seems a dream that everyone may have. a weird dream. i believe everybody had that kind of dreams, at least i did. if you told your friend the total details of the dream, they may not be interested. You will be like "i dreamt that i killed myself, and the moment i died i saw a dust in the corner of my room very annoying " you friend will be like"oh.. well and then ?" you will be continuing "i died and i came to another world which is worse than the world we living in now" your friend will be like"OK, and what happened next" you going ahead with"i get along with a Ruusian guy named Eugine who killed himself on the stage with his own guitar who was only interested in getting drunk and getting laid after dying " and when it comes to "after Urgune pulled out the gas filling nozzle in the gas station i found my ex..." your friend will be bored by all these so far. Because the film is started with an interesting starting, and it goes so flat that may disappoint the listener. things involved are so detailed and no big deal. But right as it is so, it tells us a truth which one of the characters said "only when you stop finding those miracles, they will come to you" Actually, this Truth is not even useful, it will not make sense of telling this little Truth by this whole movie. but if you are a people that always confused by the meaning of your boring life you will think the movie making sense. Because life is boring itself indeed. Some people even try to kill themselves to make some difference. But there is no difference even if you kill yourself. Its just a second life with worse situation to be dealt with. Then you will find, like is boring but it is with little miracles like love. and you trying to find those miracles so bad as life is so boring, but it turns out miracles will come to you only when you are not finding them intentionally. the whole movie is wonderful with all the imagined weird and fantastic dead world. the music even make the movie better. as i search the song played on the car many times. I found the lyrics telling exactly what i think.The song named Through the roof N undergroundThe lyrics is as below. "Through The Roof 'N'Underground"When there's a trap set up for you In every corner of this town And so you learn the only way to go is underground When there's a trap set up for you In every corner of your room And so you learn the only way to go is through the roof Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground And as we're crossing border after border We realize that difference is none It's underdogs who, and if you want it You always have to make your own fun And as the upper dog leisurely sighing The local cultures are dying and dying The programmed robots are buying and buying And a psycho load of freaks they are still trying trying Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground And as the boy scouts learn to read between the lines The silver rabbits hop between their fathers' lies And boy scouts ask "Where? Where do they go?"They go to the country that they only know Just like their meanings they lay between the lines Between the borders their real countries hide The strategic's saw their advertise Their strategy of being is one of in-your-face disguise Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground!And when their own walls they will a-crumble,And all the systems will be discombobulate,Around the stump of bigotry, our own !Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground Ooohoohoooh through the roof, and underground Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground Ooohoohoooh through the roof! Underground! Through the roof! And underground!Through the roof! Underground!

Wristcutters is not a happy tale, but a somber one which begins with a suicide by Zia who slashes his wrists; oh joy, such an uplifting drama from Croation born writer- director, Goran Dukic; what the hell happened in his Baltic childhood? Zia dies and discovers that the afterlife ain't all that it's cracked up to be; no flying angels in white, playing with a heavenly choir, but instead a place with no flowers, no stars, and only dull colors. His fellow residents have all offed themselves in various ways. A Russian musician, Eugene, has poured a beer on his guitar while on-stage, thus electrocuting himself. He meets Zia and they go on a road trip in a car that has a black hole under the passenger seat, where objects put there disappear. Zia hears that his ex-girlfriend, Desiree, has also killed herself. On the drive, they pick up Mikal, a girl who insists that there has bee a mistake, and that she does not belong there and wants to find the people in charge. Just when you thought it couldn't any stranger, the trio almost run over a man lying in the middle of the road. It is Kneller(Tom Waits), who has fallen asleep while looking for his dog. He runs a commune where objects change color and people float. This bizarre world seems like a combination of Dr. Who meets Terry Gilliam. Mikal is obsessed with finding the the people responsible for sending her to limbo land, or whatever it is. She did not commit suicide, but took too much heroin by mistake. I am a big fan of Tom Waits; especially his music, and check him out for his small role in The Book of Eli. As for Wristcutters; you may cut yours after viewing it; what a downer.