Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very disappointed :(

Absolutely amazing

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

In The Tradition Of Movies Like Crash, Magnolia (A Brilliant Movie), Babel. Pulp Fiction We Follow 4 Different Stories As They Slowly Weave Together Becoming In The End One Story ... Ryan Phillippe Is A Detective Seeking Justice For A Dead 6 Year Old Girl ... Bernard Hill A Worried Father Looking For His Lost Son ... Sam Riley A Man Looking To Replace The Love He Has Lost ... Eva Green An Artist That Suffers Through Multiple Suicide Attempts For Her Art ... These 4 Lives Are Thrown Together In What Appears To Be A Perfect Religious Society ... Like The Movies This One Imitates This Is A Brilliant Story That Reminds Us That As Large As The World Is It Is Very Tiny In The Scope Of All Things ... We Are not Alone, We Live, Suffer, Laugh, Cry, Rejoice, Etc .. Together ... The Writing Is Excellent As Well As The Acting ... Special Credit To Gerald McMorrow's Direction, His Ability To Keep Such A Huge Story In Front Of The Camera From Beginning To End Was Amazing ... Also It Would Be Wrong To Not Mention Those Who Handled The Production Design, Art Direction, Set Decoration And Costume Design ... Original And Enticing This Is Not A Movie To Be Missed ... In A World Gone Mad Hope Survives

This movie has the potential to be one of my favorite movies. here is why I hate it instead: The movie starts out like a fantastic, mesmerizing, amazing steam-punk/fantasy world/masterpiece and in addition there are some great, clever lines about religion that I can only highly agree with, but soon the viewer realizes, that the story takes place in the normal world instead - that's it with the great setting/the great Meanwhile City, poof and gone. Instead it is a regular garden variety crime story/drama and not just that, it turns out to be a story of immense injustice - what naive characters may consider romantic is the proof that this world is a heap of BS: that stupid Milo gets the happy ending, why? And why not David? David is not a bad man, on the contrary, and he is the one who can not be lulled (he recognizes the Theodicy dilemma (If a god is willing to prevent evil, but not able, then he is not omnipotent. If he is able, called but not willing, then he must be malevolent. If he is neither able or willing then why call him a god? Why else do bad things happen to good people?). He is just unlucky. He experiences evil / traumatic / unsettling/sickening experiences (the loss of the sister, war experiences, an annoyingly religious father - just think of: "It was God's will that our daughter died" -duh) and along with an unlucky, genetic predisposition to mental instability this makes him a condemned soul and his only way out is death, while fate brings other people a happy ending - that is pure injustice, depressing, unsatisfying, typical !! Not everyone's "life is too much of an adventure as it is without making anything else up" - blah blah, stupid chatter of lucky people, who understand nothing. -The ultimate injustice, a bullshit end - as David said it himself: "they neglect to see (...) the damage that fate causes so many in its selfish journey towards just one favorable consequence." Milo is the one favorable thing that happens and everybody else including/esp. David are the losers and have to suffer a cruel fate. Disgusting, depressing, I wish I hadn't watched it, I misjudged it, I was misguided by the nice pictures of Meanwhile city which the movie happily blasts away in the end.

The events taking part at present are often slow and boring, versatility has been created too complex making the film difficult to follow - especially in combination with Meanwhile City fuzz which, to be admitted, is slightly more interesting. It took even some time to realise that there are 4 main characters in this film - normally, I can consider myself as a fast grasper... The actors are also nothing special - even Sam Riley's performance is just average. Or perhaps the characters do not allow to achieve more. And final/settlement scenes and ending... Brr, not to my taste at all.Perhaps two separate films could have been a better and more interesting option. In the present form, Franklyn is just a film for art's sake, just "different" in the artistic sense. There are so many good British films available!

What's FRANKLYN about? I doubt the scriptwriter even knows for sure, because this is a muddled and uninteresting would-be science fiction film that attempts to lift itself out of a genre to become a movie of real merit. It's deliberately quirky and obtuse, and annoyed me in much the same way as the similarly unappealing V FOR VENDETTA: I take an instant dislike to films that think they're better than they are.FRANKLYN tells the stories of four people who initially seem totally unconnected, although unsurprisingly it transpires that each story hooks up with the others in some way, shape or form. So far, so routine, so they decide to have one of the stories take place in a fantastic worldscape where everybody seems to have started up their own religion (probably the only interesting idea in the whole movie). In an attempt to keep viewers' attention, they also throw in some half-hearted fight scenes to keep things moving along.Frankly, I was quite embarrassed to be watching this. Eva Green, an actress I like very much, plays an utterly embarrassing role as a whacked-out art student and has to do some painfully silly (and once again pretentious) stuff. I felt quite sorry for her. While the fantastic world stuff is more fun than the mundane London scenes, the movie lacks interest, hinging too much on a plot twist that turns out to be not very good at all. None of the cast really shines: I've never been a fan of Phillippe and his performance here doesn't change that, while Bernard Hill gets almost nothing to work with. As for the overrated Sam Riley, all of his dull scenes could have been cut without making a jot of difference.Let's face it now: it takes substance to make a real movie, and a movie that's all style is never going to be successful. That's why FRANKLYN turns out to be a real bore.