Wow! Such a good movie.

What a waste of my time!!!

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I really wanted to like this film, as it was a present from a long time friend, and as I watched I realized I saw this, or parts of it years ago on one of the movie channels. But like many others, I found the movie to be very disappointing. It is cloying while trying to be sentimental and amusing, but is overdone constantly, seeming forced. While Anton Yelchin is good, he is obviously older than 12, and the script he is given is trying so hard to be cute, while still being "naughty", it never rings true. Also, Robin Williams, who is supposed to be mentally retarded, or challenged, seems too wise most of the time, as is the black lady in a detention facility, advising Anton about life. Because almost nothing ever rings true, it is almost impossible to ultimately care about the characters enough to become truly emotionally involved. Needed to be done in a more realistic and less "cute" manner. I guess some Duchovny fans were able to praise the film, but I can see why most reviews were negative.

An American boy goes to Paris after his mother commits suicide, becomes and artist and then discovers himself and returns to the States so he can make things right with his former friends.I have to think that the people who are rating this movie so highly are all X-Files fans, even though there are no aliens or serial killers in it. Don't be fooled, this movie blows chunks.The story is incoherent, with little or no explanation of what people are doing or why. When you do get an explanation, it doesn't fit the story that went before it. What it does is bore you. For all the acting talent in the film, it just isn't interesting. I spent the whole movie wondering when sex-addict Duchovny was going to bang someone. Maybe he was doing it behind the scenes; they should have filmed that instead.What comes across is a story of a self-obsessed artist worrying about minor incidents in his life and wanting to make them right somehow - even though they didn't seem that wrong to begin with. There aren't any particularly interesting or shocking revelations, despite the mention of a big secret in the first few minutes. It's just a guy thinking that his life is as interesting to you as it is to him. It's not.I saw in the trivia that Duchovny claims he wrote the script in a week, that's entirely believable. The guy can act, there's no doubt, but writing and directing are obviously beyond his talents.Why Hollywood keeps greenlighting these self-discovery stories is beyond me. I discover myself in the shower every morning but I don't bother making a movie about it. Mine would probably be better than this one, though; at least there would be some nudity.

Judging by the high rating this film got from IMDb voters, it seems to be artificially pushed upward by a group of David Duchovny's fans. Actors who want to direct easily forget whatever lessons they learned while acting and being directed by professionals. To add to injury, David Duchovny wrote the material for his screen directorial debut, something that could have improved by an experienced writer.Mr. Duchovny, an actor who made his mark in television, is generous to a fault with his cast. The basic problem was engaging Robin Williams, an actor that without the proper guidance tends to run amok doing his own thing. Pappass is a child tried in a grown man's body that befriends Tommy, the teenager who is the director's alter ego.The transformation of Tommy into an artist that leaves New York to make a life in Paris is something not to be believed. The emphasis was in the relationship between Tommy as a teen ager and Pappass. We know little about his mother, who is obviously depressed after losing her husband. As a young widow she loses her will to live, even though she has a son to bring up.The basic fault with the film is that it has all the clichés in the world for being believable.

This film could be great. The cast is flawless, if only Duchovny had set it against an fictional prison in a fictional neighborhood. But he chose the Jefferson market Library as the focal point, during the later years of it's being a women's house of detention. The film takes place in 1973 , but the actual prison was deserted in the late 1950's till 1961. In 61 plans to make it a Library began, and it opened as a library in 1967. So setting the story in 1973 was totally inaccurate , since it had not been a prison for almost 20 years by that time.Details like this always ruin a film for me. If you don't know the history, it is still a very good film.