The Voices (2014)

Too much of everything

Excellent but underrated film

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

"The voices" is a tremendous movie based upon a man suffering from psychological disease and loneliness throughout his whole life, and how his disease(hearing voices from nonspeaking organisms and objects) and loneliness leads him to on a road of psychopath killing. Ryan Reynolds amazed everyone by his performance. In one word tremendous movie.

I love a good dark comedy and so I was on board when I read the premise of Ryan Reynolds talking to his cat and dog about whether or not to be a serial killer. The premise works best as a dark comedy but the movie gets really depressing as it goes a lot into the character's actual suffering with schizophrenia. It becomes at different times a drama, a grisly horror film, and a cartoony surreal fantasy. I don't know. This is a really hard sell. I guess I can appreciate it's honesty in actually acknowledging schizophrenia and mental health problems but then they've sort of shot themselves in the foot as it cannot work then as a dark comedy. I don't want to laugh at schizophrenic hallucinations being portrayed as a cartoon in one scene and then seeing Reynolds with his therapist in agony in another. I think what the film should have done is start off with the comedic effect and then have it wear off as it goes into the seriousness of the situation. It doesn't. The film ends with a big dance number where Reynolds dances with Jesus and his victims.

This movie is everything I like about a movie: it's smart, funny, dark, deep, emotional, everything mixed up perfectly. It's also very nice visually. Ryan Reynolds is great, I can't think of anyone who would have done a better job. You must watch this, it's really good.

A sick movie about a man that has a illness to talk to animals and stuff. he takes medicine to help to overcome this & when he doesn't take the regular dosage of medicine he mistakenly kills a girl he likes in his mind he can talk to the head without the body but if he takes the medicine he's ended up with the real fact of a dead woman's head.. yuck. it truly disgusting but can enjoy the movie in the serial killers mind way of seeing things.