Adrian Stunt

I only saw the last hour of this film by chance, so I might not be in a position to give a proper opinion, but from what I saw, I wished I'd seen it from the start. There was a kind of 'Hemingway-esque' aspect to the dialogue at certain moments, in which an issue of great import can be delivered in small sentences such as (spoiler alert) 'I'll pay you back in Greece.' I got the sense of an 'American Graffiti' but in Fort William. I'm giving this a high-star rating, because I was moved. Funny, a bit raucous, and sad.

Complete tripe. Wasted my time watching this thinking all was going to be clevery resolved. Instead, it was full of red herrings with an abysmal ending. Hugely disappointing. Don't waste your time.

Fascinating movie, which is set in space, but explores the spaces in our psyche and gets you thinking. Magnificent performances all round, including the brilliant Michael Sheen as a robotic barman (who seems, like all good barmen, to know the right thing to say- apart from once). Through the labyrinth of guilt and loneliness and thwarted destinies, ultimately, a feel-good movie. SPOILER ALERT: where 'fate' is concerned, if Jennifer Lawrence's character had not been woken up everyone would have died in their hibernetic sleep.

Quietly and disturbingly astonished when I first saw this film. I think it's a masterpiece. Naomi Watts is outstanding, and one of the greatest film actresses I've ever seen. Very existentialist movie. I can only assume there is an Eliotesque twilight zone, so to speak, before the bullet enters our consciousness and we die (like dreams and death which take perhaps five minutes but cram everything into that time). Some scenes are mysteriously long but there may be a reason for that. A brilliant critique of this film is on the web somewhere. It's about 22 pages long but comes from the heart and he nails the analogies perfectly. I'll try to find it again after many years and post it if I can. There are some long, seemingly irrelevant scenes in which the real protagonist is lost, rather like the elderly couple Betty meets at the airport who become stupor-like, grotesquely, in the taxi since they have now become irrelevant to Betty's subconscious 'invented ?' narrative. I can only describe this movie as a kind of 'cubist' conundrum, but which, ultimately, breaks out of its various perspectives into a harsh truth of unrequited love and dreams like the opening of the blue 'Pandora's" box. As the director said : if you understand where the aunt is ... ( in the US an actor's career has effectively ''died" when they have to go to Canada to get work). I know this film may be hateful to many, sort of like Hemingway 'Marmite -' you either love it or hate it. But, for me, it went off like a slow nuclear detonation in the soul somewhat like the release of the 'radiation ' of reality from the mysterious blue box at the theatre ,aptly, at a time when everyone (including the viewer) is asked to consider the latent ambiguity of perception and emotion. This movie intrigues and challenges, and for me, is a profoundly and emotionally disturbing exposition of the fulfilment we desire that brings our dreams to a trivial, base, vain world which is no country for the pristine innocence of optomistic feelings of love and fulfilment Ultimately sad but intriguing movie. Make sure you're in the mood. My wife is bored hy 'Wings of Desire' but I love it, if that's any indication of my opinion. '

Subtly compelling film on the enquiry into the Challenger space shuttle disaster of 1986. I liked the coincidental, though probably artistic/dramatic licence-driven, banal and miniature events and phrases that drive the narrative of this scientific detective story to its resolution. Dominantly about the character and way of thinking of the unique, socially unconventional genius that was Richard Feynman, played superbly by the late, lamented William Hurt. Feynman's inherent need to establish the truth is in contrast to the the institutions that try to mask it. Intriguing and touching movie that I caught almost by mistake. But glad I did. William Hurt in this movie reminds us how very great and subtle an actor he was. Recommended.

Beautifully scripted and acted one-act piece. Amazing the drama that can be engendered by such a basic format. Was gripped from the beginning. Wonderfully dark motif runs through the film. Cannot tell you more more without spoiling it. There is a moment that suddenly hits you like an express train.

I loved this film. Full of quiet, passion for particular artworks by 3 veteran gallery attendants. Touching and funny even down to the last scene in the Danish gallery. If you're feeling gloomy, this will lift your spirits. Brilliant performances by the lead rôles, it turns out to be a romantic epiphany for Christopher Walden's character. Uplifting, funny and touching this is a much under-rated inspirational movie that makes the soul and heart, smile and pulse again in the dawn of one's twilight years. Thoroughly recoommended with a biscuit and a nice cup of tea!.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Naomi Watts is the most outstanding actress of her generation. Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn are superb. This is not just a craft, these performances are an art. Perhaps, like the works of Edvard Munch, love and death are inextricably twisted in the nature of things.The beauty of the twilight birds coming home to roost become difficult not to perceive as falling autumn leaves towards the end.The use of sickly green tones in the soul-desroying scenes and the dischronological juxtaposition of scenes if love, redemption , and it's absence is very powerful. I think the film endsends as as a testament to the power of the soul ( only 21 grams) but endsin winter with snow on aunserviced, disused cheap motel swimming pool. How this film did not win an Oscar is baffling. But Iňarritu did win it when 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri was in contention a few years later. Powerful, intense movie. Highly recommended.

Sorry, but maybe I have to see this film again in the right receptive mood. I cannot seriously review this film since it bored me to tears half-way through, and didn't like the amateur improvisation, apart from Nicholas Cage. It did not engage me but maybe I have been emotionally worn out by too rich moving films presently, far better than this.

A ripping yarn with underlying human frailties with a touch of British Empire-heightened sense of importance, undermined by the two, insubordinate sergeants who decide it's time to embark on their own 'empire-building' for the worthiest causes : themselves and profit. But the rebel is gradually lost in Sean's character, eventually succumbing to the the lure of a kind of benevolent, prestigious empire imperialism from which he initially sprang like a rusty coil. 'Fill your pockets' says the wonderful, earthy Sir Michael Caine's character to his comrade sergeant, and you wish he would - 'There's a bigger one' (ruby). Caine and Connery at their best. Great little twists in the plot which keep their adventure going, like a kind of fate that initially favours them. Wonderful characters portrayed superbly by the cast. A great, if ultimately dark, adventure full of wit and character. ( I think it's Keith Richards' favourite film - that's recommendation enough in my books). Thoroughly recommended on a slow Sunday afternoon.