Cosmopolis (2012)

Boring

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Some won't get it the first time & most won't even after the 5th, but if you're a deep open-minded person like myself...you'll get it! Some of the best dialogue I've ever watched along with Robert Pattinson showing us just how far his range of character acting can go, what a master! HE absolutely nailed it in this film!

I was initially conflicted in watching this. Directed by David Conenberg and starring Samantha Morton, Juliet Binoche and Paul Giamatti, but also stars Robert Pattinson. Will the quality of Conenberg, Morton, Binoche and Giamatti more than make up for the talentless, vacant Pattinson?Turns out Robert Pattinson is still as clueless as ever, but his lack of acting talent is more than aided and abetted here by a dull, empty, directionless plot and very pretentious direction from David Cronenberg. This movie would have been crap even without Robert Pattinson in it (though probably not as crap...)

This movie has surprised me by how boring it was. I have not seen anything this boring for some years. It has worsted even the worst movies that I have seen and I have seen a lot of movies.There is a never ending dialogue about all kinds of things. That could have been interesting, except it's all said in the most monotone voices possible, without any emotion.There are "action" scenes if you can call them that. Because the "action" scenes are super boring! Believe it or not the "action" in this movies is more boring than the endless monotone dialogue.There are sexual encounters of the boring kind thrown in that don't really add to the story.Well, I've warned you. If you still feel like watching, drink lots of coffee.

I recently saw this movie and loved it, I came onto to IMDb and was surprised to see it had some very unflattering reviews, I think that's because some people just didn't get it.Yes the dialogue is contrived and strange, until you realise why.The whole movie sounds like a poem because it is, the characters are inside out, instead of hearing their boasts we hear their thoughts and if you don't get that point, I can see how you would think this is a bad movie.However when when you see the genius behind this creative device it all starts to make sense, thats why I'm giving this a decent score.All in all the movie itself could be any other like it, the underlying theme rather wreaks of 'Collateral' but the turning of the whole movie into a poem and the way the characters introversions are extroverted, genius.I liked it for that alone, it was a refreshing break from the staleness of forumlaic sensory diversion.I didn't know it was a Cronenberg until I saw the credits at the end but when I saw that name, it made sense, he always had a thing for the weird and twisting the boundaries of perception.In this he truly succeeded, even if the storyline itself doesn't stand up to scrutiny, the creativity of the concept has to be admired.