Sadly Over-hyped

Better Late Then Never

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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.

Well, I like all of the actors but let's talk about their characters in this movie. While Michelle Williams as mother/wife/doctor is trying to save a boy's life in NYC...the happily married man - her husband - gets bored waiting for a business deal to go through and has a beach vacation with a young prostitute (and I note he fails to tell his wife he might be HIV infected by the prostitute). Also, I don't think the nanny would have left the girl Jackie alone without calling to tell her mother...you don't ask a 7 year old to do that. And the nanny's mother blew it by telling her grandson that the kids go at night and get money "sleeping" with someone. (What an unfortunate reminder that it is Westerners who keep the child prostitution going there.) And to add to the dreariness of the characters,the pace of the movie was horrendously slow. There was a heaviness, too...so on my list to never watch it again.

This is for sure the worse movie I have ever seen. I just want to warn you. I can't believe that actors like García Bernal or Williams accepted a script like that. I just made an account to help you avoid even thinking about it. Trust me, you don't want to loose exactly 2 Hrs. looking at a film that shows how our third world countries are screwed, without taking any position about it. I appreciate that someone visits this countries and gets so impressed that he wants to make a movie about it. It seems that this particular director has gone to Thailand, smoke something with the surfers that he met, and forgot what he was doing (But he recorded them to remember the killer party he had).When you thought he was going to change dramatically the course of the story, he just reinforced the idea of the typical bad things that happen anywhere but in Sweden and USA. Maybe is informative for someone that doesn't understand how people live overseas, but you can't make a movie without a script that has a

In New York, the immature family man Leo Vidales (Gael García Bernal) is a successful businessman, owner of the Underlandish, a successful website of digital games and married with Dr. Ellen Vidales (Michelle Williams), a dedicated surgeon of the emergency room of a hospital. They have a daughter, Jackie (Sophie Nyweide), who is an intelligent girl that is raised by her nanny, the Filipino Gloria (Marife Necesito) that spends more time with her than Ellen. Gloria has two sons in Philippine that miss her.When Leo need to travel to Singapore with his partner Bob (Tom McCarthy) to sign a millionaire contract with investors, Ellen operates a boy stabbed in the stomach by his own mother and she feels connected to the boy and rethinks her relationship with Jackie. Meanwhile Leo is bored waiting for the negotiation of Bob with the investors and he decides to travel to Bangkok and lodges in a rustic cottage on the seashore. Leo meets the young prostitute and mother Cookie (Run Srinikornchot) and he has one night stand with her. Meanwhile, Gloria's ten year-old boy Salvador (Jan David G. Nicdao) misses her mother and decides to find a job. His innocence leads him to a tragedy. "Mammoth" is a melodramatic film about motherhood – there are four parallel situations of mother and children – Ellen and Jackie; Gloria and her sons; the boy Anthony and his mother that has stabbed him; and Cookie and her baby. I had a great expectation with this film, but unfortunately the plot does not work well and is pointless, going to nowhere. There is the contrast between people and specially children from the First and Third Worlds, but nothing new. The narrative is cold and not engaging. Gael Garcia Bernal is miscast and his immature character has nothing to do with his mature wife. Sophie Nyweide steals the film with her top- notch performance. There are so many tragedies along the story that in the end I was expecting that Leo had contracted AIDS with Cookie and would transmit the disease to his wife Ellen. The title "Mammoth" refers to the expensive pen that Bob gave to Leo, but I did not understand the intention of the author with this title. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Corações em Conflito" ("Hearts in Conflict")

watch this movie if you are not able to sleep, it will cure your insomnia, phillipine expat life is not like they showed! this could have been a 30 minute TV show.the people know what the world is, the ones in the movie were spoiled.many are happy just to have a roof over their head and something to eat.movie did not show how the guy got a trip to Thailand, seems he is clueless about life.hookers in real life in Thailand do not look beautiful, they look like drug addicts. these were actresses. his grammar is ridiculous, his wife would not make enough to have a nanny or other things.go ahead and enjoy the sex trade think how your daughters will be the replacement