This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

After watching Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy films in the 00s (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance), I'm just now getting caught up on his more recent work. This is a sort-of erotic thriller with a lot of Hitchcock overtones and just gorgeous camerawork that embraces its atmosphere and sense of mystery with the director's distinctive tone that's most dream-like and immediate, in turns. Really good, if you like this sort of thing.

Spoiler Alert!!! My suggestion with almost all films now: if you want to watch a film, don't watch the trailer and don't listen to reviews. This fantastic and dark film caught me by surprise and had three incredible performances from Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, and Mia Wasikowska, great direction, and a phenomenal script by Wentworth Miller. Loved it.

Not sure why anyone would enjoy a pointless and senseless murdering people movie like this one here. You would have thought the film carries deeper meaning or there's more to this story, but at the end you realized it was just a movie about two soulless psychopaths without a conscience. This movie was a total waste of my time, and I felt sort of angry after watching a piece of crap like this. Come on, couldn't someone have written a better plot or something? Don't we have enough sick people and sadists on earth? How could have a widow fallen for her late husband's brother shortly after the funeral when it seemed like she loved and missed her husband? All of these characters are so unrealistic as if they all were without souls. The girl was born in 1994, but the way people dressed in this film didn't reflect our time at all. That's the other weird thing about this film.

Having seen and been unhealthily engaged in 'Thirst' I acquired this.It reminded me of a similar disappointment. One of my most trusted filmmakers is Kar Wai Wong, someone who has expanded my electric cage. His first non-English film 'Blueberry Night' was every bit as ambitious as, say, 'Chun King Express," but had none of the adventure. None of the crazy veers past the guard rail. I suppose it was because at home, his crew understood intuitive shifting as you go. His borrowed US crew had no idea, so he just had to plow through the seafood to the nauseous end.This is less of a failure. Many of the themes, urges and cinematic devices from 'Thirst' are here. The actress seems to understand, but she's just too much of a person where she needs to be a simple container of undirected, temporarily knotted desires. The Charlie in this one isn't much different than Hitchcock's Uncle Charlie, more mad, but as much in control. Too much control for what I think Chan-wook Park had in mind. But he had a script, and not the room to intuitively embellish. Does simply using US assets kill non-character oriented improvisation?