hyped garbage

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

What a disjointed, contrived mess this is. So I'll style my review after the movie:This guy talking to the camera all the time. I don't like being pandered to. This movie is like someone who did something bad to you (i.e. the movie) but he keeps talking and being in your face to you trying to convince you to like his movie and not to hit him. How many clichéd personas exactly are in this movie? It even has a Soprano type guy, a European girl who shows her mammaries, et cetera.Amateurish Acting (AA) - I love failed movies like this for the use of unknown actors you are glad never to see in any other movie again. Oh but let me put a word in about Lauren Holly - uh...not good. The plot is irrelevant. It's probably a sort of autobiography anyway. The "hero" has directed U2 in the past - surprisingly the director has directed U2's "Rattle and Hum". Wow...And lastly the title: "Entropy" - I don't care about why it was decided to use that title but it surely makes the target viewers (US college students) go back and check the meaning of the word they have decided to ignore in one of last year's classes. Heck - I'll go out on a limb and speculate that the true meaning of the title is this: A mess that keeps getting more and more of a mess.An alternative way of being entertained would be reading the wishy-washy entry of entropy on Wikipedia. Enjoy and be "sillyfied".

Lots of nice minimal jokes. Surreal amusing look at a young Hollywood director's search for the perfect partner. His life falls apart, in an affable way - he's likable. My scratched rental DVD jammed appropriately enough about half way, where there's a turning point. The picture blocked and jittered (almost a technique used in the movie) and ten minutes later the fun began, for me, with the introduction of the gorgeous Kelly Macdonald. If you've ever felt your work or love life's collapsing, and seen the irony of it, you might enjoy this film. It's a sweet story, nothing gruesome or sleazy. Music's minimal and appropriate. No sentimentality - not a trace. Just a nice bloke trying to find love.

But those who can connect with the director at some level will really like this film. It is not surprising to see such difference in the comments left behind about this film. I guess it is one of those that you either love or hate. I for one, loved it. It has "some what" unique camera work that goes well with the story and it makes interesting use of jump cuts in its editing. Most of the actors are very comfortable in their roles, especially Stephen Dorff. If you are familiar with the circumstances behind the making of this film, you will appreciate it even more. Some comments criticized the "smoking cat scene". People, it was only his imagination! And if you had understood the film you would know why that scene is there. This film is better then good but not great and it may come of as being a little pertinacious. Finally, the tagline summarizes it really well, 'The hardest thing to do in life is direct your own'.

I have read all 36 reviews posted on this movie. I liked it that much, that i had to see what each person that took time out of their day had to say about it. To my delight, most of the comments were positive, some of them were bad (likely by people who enjoyed "The English Patient" or "Shine" -very good movies by the way), and few were accurate. This film was very much artistic. The camera work was phenomenal. The acting done by Stephen Dorff was down right excellence. The smoking cat scene was a bit silly "IF" you thought it was meant to be a realistic happening. Obviously he was imagining that but if you want to think otherwise, be my guest. The story was very good, and I don't think it could have been brought to the screen any better than it was. I enjoyed the movie very much and gave it a 10 only to bring up the 6.1 rating that I thought should have been higher. I would have otherwise given it a 9. Someone made a very clever comment about the movie being a real life incident in Joanou's life. Think about it. He directed U2 documentaries, and then went on to do movies. It was very realistic as it shows the real world of filmmaking. Producers very strict demands, problems with the cast. There were many things going on in this film and I thought that it was pulled together quite nicely. It gives you everything Hollywood wants, except the happy ending, which goes back to that thing called REALITY. Jake(Dorff) is a mess. You know this from the beginning because he's drinking and he's got a girl in bed that he married just the night before. He takes you through the occurrences that got him where he is. He takes a step into an unfamiliar world of directing with movies instead of his main talent, rock videos. He meets a girl, falls in love, screws the relationship up, quits his job, meets another girl and recklessly marries her, he gets a humiliating "wake up call" by his friend Bono as the other girl comes back for him, she leaves again, he gets divorced after being married for 24 hours to a woman he knew for 12, he tries to get back with the woman he originally fell in love with... need i go on? Realistically, these kind of things would make you go to the lengths that Jake actually does. He is a guy with a very wild mind, if he wasn't, he wouldn't be a great director. That is very important to realize. Normal minds in most cases cannot mastermind a movie. Anyways, i just thought that everything about this movie was great. I will not try and interpret every detail and TELL you what i think. I believe in something Stanley Kubrick once said. "I would not think of quarelling with your interperetations, nor offer any other, as i have always found it the best policy to let the film speak for itself"-Stanley Kubrick If you havent' seen the movie, you should and pull from it what you can. P.S. It's really funny. I thought i was the only person who right off the bat thought, 'Geez, this is kinda like Christian Slater in Kuffs!' Anyways, people copy each others style all the time. It was a good idea originally, and it was used again. No big deal, right?