Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Excellent, smart action film.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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

25 years later, four former college buddies rent a place, get together and do an outrageous amounts of alcohol and drugs. They remember about other times they got together and partied and then about their personal failures, although I would have swapped places with at least two of them. Then PLOT SPOILER they start to kill themselves based on some old nearly forgotten 25 year old pact they signed when they were all stoned. It really did seem stupid. Some dark comedy moments.The whole film was miscast. This should have been a Tarantino production with a neat sound track and James Franco, Gary Busey, Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, and /or Samuel L. Jackson. Then add some dark decent dialogue with biting flashbacks. This was an opportunity missed for a cult classic.Guide: F-word and nudity.

Mark Pellington's I Melt With You is a miserable experience. Here is a dark, dreary, morose film that takes four potentially interesting characters, soaks them in booze, drugs and self-pity and then drags us through a second act that throws them off the proverbial cliff. If we cared about these characters at all it might mean something, but they are such loathsome and self-pitying losers that we long to get away from them. The last hour of this picture is one of the most depressing experiences you'll ever have.The set-up seems to promise a much better story. We meet four guys in their mid-forties, all suffering some form of mid-life crisis. They get together at a large California mansion for an annual reunion that will last five days; this is a week that will include fishing, swimming in the ocean, partying and some inevitable male bonding. The bonding is a necessary agent to what is going on in their individual personal lives. Richard (Thomas Jane), is a school teacher whose dreams of becoming a novelist have blown away in the wind. Jonathan (Rob Lowe) is a doctor whose marriage has imploded, leaving him at a distance from his kids. Ron (Jeremy Piven) has some financial indiscretions that are waiting for him back home. And there's Tim (Christopher McKay) who is suffering the burden of guilt of a tragedy from his past.It is more or less telegraphed that all of these problems will come to a head. That's okay, but it might have seemed easier to sit through if the guys weren't constantly ingesting mounds and mounds of drugs. I'm not talking about marijuana, these guys take the hard stuff: cocaine, pills, heroine and gallons of booze. Their front living room table is covered in the stuff. They are high for nearly the entire length of the picture. They take so many drugs so often and spend so much time in a drug-induced haze that you are left to wonder how they remain conscious or keep from overdosing. At one point, Jonathan pushes a handful of maybe twenty pills into his mouth and maintains his conscious state. The drugs push one of the friends over the edge and he opts out of his misery the hard way. That opens the second half of the movie wherein misery, grief, self-pity and a long-dormant suicide pact are called into question, and what do think the odds are that they are going to make good on that very suicide pact.Pellington's visual style is to twist and turn the camera so that we feel the nausea of the drugs and of the inner-turmoil, but all it does it wear us out. That wouldn't be so bad if we cared one bit about this story. I didn't, and I wanted to get as far away from these people as I could. In fact, I wanted to get as far away from Pellington's movie as I could. Looking over his list of credits, after sitting through this and his previous efforts like Arlington Road and The Mothman Prophecies, I almost don't want to open anymore gifts from him.I guess some may see this as a contemporary statement on the state of the lost and wrecked lives of many middle-aged contemporary men. To be very honest, I don't know any contemporary men like this, nor would I want to. I understand the burden of having to face your responsibility and your maturity, and I understand the burden of having the face your fears, but this movie makes the pains of life into a blood-soaked vomitorium for which the only cure, the only cure, is suicide.How depressing is I Melt With You? Let me put it this way: I just saw a picture called Melancholia that ends with a rogue planet smashing into the earth and wiping out civilization. Between the two, Melancholia had the more upbeat ending.

I watched this film with my dad (who is 44) in the theater when it came out. I am a huge Mark Pellington fan, and this movie was every bit as genius as Mark's other features. My dad is right now going through many of the issues facing the 4 stars of this picture. I have cried along side my dad through divorce, financial dilemmas, and other middle age male situations that this film brings to the big screen. I felt the same way watching this movie as I do when I watch the Alice In Chains music video called the the " Rooster", also by Mark Pellington. The realism tears right through my heart and soul. When the movie pulp fiction first came out it was bad mouthed by many that did not understand Quentin Tarrantinos out of sequence scenes, Now Pulp Fiction is considered Epic, and Quentin a one name fabulous director. As with most geniuses, they never get the praise at first they deserve. As time goes by, this movie will get its just sub title, Epic Masterpiece!!!

This might be the worst movie I've ever seen. The only redeeming quality is the soundtrack, and maybe a few funny quotes. A bunch of selfish California Hollywood types who think their life is oh so bad whaaaaa. Yes, their lives are terrible but it's because they never got it. And this movie doesn't get it. Don't waste your time.The plot had a lot of potential. Disappointing to see several of my favorite actors partake. I've lost a lot of respect for them. This could have been a great movie but instead it is another example of the simple-mindedness coming out of Hollywood. Life is too short for you and all of us to get all caught up in this kind of crud.