A brilliant film that helped define a genre

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Imagine this is titled 360 because "Ring" and "It's a Small World" were already taken. 360 involves a number of disjointed stories that have a way of intersecting or not. There are many indie films out there that do this, some work better than others. The ones that work have quirky stories that hold our interest. This one does not. The stories consist of an escort, infidelity, a sex offender, a man looking for his missing daughter, and a Russian. There may be a few more.The Denver airport was filmed in Minnesota, apparently they figured no one travels enough to either place to notice. While the acting wasn't bad, the stories were presented in a mundane fashion. One of the problems with the film is that you know in advance the story will circle back so you spend your time concentrating on how it is going to do that rather than try to take in what is on the screen.If you like intersecting indie films, try Jason Freeland's "Garden Party" a modest production which I enjoyed more than this film.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, and nudity. It had some of each, but really didn't dwell on it.

360 lacks the glint of malice and sardonic cynicism of its model, Schnitzler's La Ronde, filmed in 1950 by Max Ophfuls. It wastes the talents of two fine actors, Jude Law and Anthony Hopkins. Law's part, in particular, amounts to a sniffle and a sneeze; Hopkins is given a monologue — in which he conveys the secret of life according to a Jesuit he knows: "Fuck it." His search for his missing daughter never acquires suspense or urgency. And the sterile, fluorescent lit morgue sucks oxygen from the movie. 360 is a travelogue that pings from Berlin to Paris to London and pongs to Denver and Phoenix and back again. But in each city we see only hotel rooms and airports. A drive around Vienna's famed Ringstrasse, the final act is meant to connote the casting off of shackles — from employer, from exploitative sister — in favor of impulse, liberation, and life. But it leaves us skeptical that the pair will end up differently from the couple at the end of The Graduate, a film with which it otherwise has little in common.

Annoying lack of closure: - Pimp, photographer, and blackmailer gets no consequences - Cheating wife gets no consequences - Husband attempts to cheat but gets blackmailed - Blackmailer wins and gets no consequences - Wife of cheating husband nearly raped by rehabbed pervert? Gives old man hope? - Old man never finds daughter? - Rehabbed Pervert's story ends without closure? - Unworthy prostitute gets rich quick? - Prostitute's intelligent sister hooks up with Russian Thug? - Muslim gives up religious beliefs for married woman? - Subtitles in movie are often unreadable as they appear white on white Not a 'feel good' kind of movie... too many loose ends... bad guys win and at least three good guys end up alone and miserable. Five stars for acting. Zero stars for poor storytelling... c'mon a woman (supposedly the brains of the family) jumps into an obvious thug's car because it's raining? This works only if the story is science fiction and plays out on another planet. Yes, think of it as Planet Whatever.

This way it goes back and forth between countries and peoples lives does remind me of crash but it isn't as good as crash. When initially watching the beginning of the movie i thought it was another film because i didn't recognise the actors and it was in another language. It did follow up on the rule that it only takes six connections before someone else knows you. This film was very realistic and i believe the music was well chosen for each scene. This film is dreadfully slow...there isn't anything fast paced included in it. I wouldn't necessarily define it as a romance either it is quite passionless. The atmosphere is very shallow. I think the film was put together in a great way but the plot of the story wasn't as good as i was expecting. However i really wish john found his daughter at the end...he looks so alone. This should have been a television program.