Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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

6 Balloons is a very good intense emotional roller coaster that's on Netflix right now. The plot of this movie I thought was very delicate, the script handled this heavy weighted plot so well. The plot is very original for film, and it is done well. I found myself completely shooken up and tied into the plot. The story and the way the story is being told is so raw and real that you just can't help to keep watching. But what really threw me off in the movie was the tone and how it changed. The first 40-50 minutes of the movie had a perfect serious and dark tone which fit the movie perfectly. But the last 10-15 minutes tried to have this comedy kinda tone and make the movie light hearted which didn't work for me. Also, the pacing was off in the beginning. The beginning of the movie started out really slow, but as the movie went on it got faster and caught up. I thought Abbi and James gave some incredible performances, there really great here. Script wise, the movie had some great dialogue. I love how real and raw the siblings are and how they talk, it captures the real life of siblings perfectly. I also thought the movie was well shot, the cinematography is really well done and it fits the setting and the mood the film gives. Marja I thought did a great job directing the movie, you can really see the vision she had when making the film. Overall, this movie tells a heavy handed topic and tells the story in a beatiful way. But with some pacing issue, toning issues, and the end. The end kinds left off the story without really finishing the story and that disappointed me. But I recommend it.

This story is about a sister's love for her Brother and how much she sacrifices for him. There is no big event or a climax in the movie however it does bring you on her journey. You feel her pain, her disappointment, her anger. It's a good movie. Those who have or had someone they love with a drug addiction will find this story all too familiar and for those who don't, this shines a light on what they go through.

The film showed me a reality which I have never seen. It was a fusion of darkness with memories of the past which evoke happiness. Overall well done, with some definite room for improvement. I enjoyed watching our main character struggle with her own addiction which keeps her "drowning" just like a drug addict.Pro/Con: Some really great shots w/ the camera, but not enough story telling through the camera. Pro: The chapters of the boat narration kept me interested in what the moral was. Con: There were times when it was so mundane to watch I wanted to stop watching. Pro: It showed a terrific literal drowning during a very real scene. I don't know that I've seen something edited like this. It was different and it played well. Con: The pacing of the film was too even and I think this is why many viewers will find this film "boring". The colors / contrast wasn't helping tell the story either. With better pacing this may have only needed to be a 45 minute film and would have kept the audience to feel more empathy for the main characters. Pro: Acting by the main two actors was superb, three if you include the little girl. Con: I don't think the director knew what her main characters would eat for breakfast. And if she did, she didn't convey it to the audience, AKA - if we dove a little deeper with the characters we could have felt more connection.

6 balloons is about Kathy (played by Abbi Jacobson) finding out that her brother Seth (played by Dave Franco) has relapsed in his heroin addiction and this just before organizing a birthday party for her husband. It's a believable drama about dealing with a junkie in the family. Well almost believable. You can see his suffering while going cold turkey and her suffering with the dilemma between helping her brother score drugs or bringing him to a rehabilitation center instead. The suffering is believable, but for a hardcore junkie they could have said something about the constant lying, about the stealing, and about the physical signs of deterioration due to addiction. He looked well to clean to pass as a heroin addict. The acting was good, the story also, but it could have used a bit more drama to me to make it more real. Good enough to watch once though.