Tomorrow You're Gone (2012)

Sick Product of a Sick System

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This film is driven by many things, but certainly not by plot. This is clearly intentional. The title itself is a spoiler. This movie is another one of those "The Guy" and "The Girl" movies, but it works, more or less. The girl is Flo, and the guy is Sam/Charlie, and that's about as much as we ever know about them, assuming even those names are real. I have never seen a sexy woman throw herself at a man so extremely to no effect. I found myself yelling out loud several times, "Just do it with her!" (I am married, and my wife was watching too, and I don't eat hot pockets nor live in Mom's basement.) This was very frustrating, and that alone made this movie unique. Charlie was very, very brooding and that most sexy thing of all, vulnerable, and Flo moves in on him with the intensity of a cruise missile. They hook up, and when she's not trying to have kinky sex with him, often involving her feet, she does this "Hannibal Lector" thing on him from out of The Silence of the Lambs. She's in his head, she gets vague responses from her bizarre psychoanalytical probes, and then tries to get it on with him, repeatedly. Charlie is so tormented that he doesn't even notice her sexually. This is a redemption movie, and yes, as in many movies of this type, "The Guy" dies at the end, although I found the ending to be the aspect of the move that made the most sense. There are other things in the mix, including a bare-bones plot that was actually irrelevant.I liked this movie and as others have said, it's not for everyone. It's a psychological non-thriller, so to speak. The interplay between Flo and Charlie is, in it's slow paced, quirky way, quite intense. Much of the dialogue is of the New Age variety, both from The Buddha, Charlie's criminal mentor, and Flo herself. It's all pretty obscure. So, I hope I've helped you decide on this movie. I could condense my review to be: "WTF? But I liked it." This movie is why we use Redbox religiously.

TOMORROW YOU'RE GONE is no thriller, which is not, of course, an entirely bad thing. It's a strange, dreamlike, and fairly uneventful film about Charlie Rankin (Dorff) being released after a four-year stint in prison, intent on wreaking vengeance on those who put him there and performing "hits" against adversaries of "The Buddha"(Dafoe), another former--now dead?--inmate who acts as his ethereal mentor. He also meets "Florence Jane" (Monaghan) the girl of many-a-guy's dreams, but not Rankin's, who just wants to be friends with her. Florence Jane, it would seem, is a sort of guardian angel figure save, perhaps, the "guardian" part. Much of it is open to interpretation, and much of it simply doesn't make a whole lot of sense.More thematic and atmospheric than action-oriented, TOMORROW YOU'RE GONE is well-filmed and well-played, and much of the script (especially Florence Jane's) is quite memorable without being overly pretentious: See the quote from "The Buddha" used as my title here. TYG also has things to show and tell us about the futility of vengeance, the destructive nature of bitterness, and various other things.If only the plot were better. . .

¨You want to tell me what went wrong last night? ¨I think I just found the number 1 contender for worst film of the year, at only 90 minutes long this film is so tedious and pointless that I felt it was never going to end. It tries too hard to be an art house film, but we've seen these character driven neo noir films done much better in the past. I don't even think this film makes sense or tries to deliver any sort of message. You don't even know when the main character is imagining things or living reality; everything is so ambiguous and vague. Tomorrow You're Gone never goes anywhere and it's a shame because Stephen Dorff and Michelle Monaghan are pretty good actors. This is just a waste of their talents and a waste of our time. Director David Jacobson (Down in the Valley) has made one pretentious movie and with the help of screenwriter Matthew F Jones (Deepwater and A Single Shot) he has made one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. I usually take something positive about a film no matter how much I dislike it, but I cannot say anything good about this movie. There is not one single thing that I like about this pretentious thriller. Willem Defoe could be the best thing about this film, but he is in this movie as much as he is in the trailer. This is a complete waste of time so stay away from this film.Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff who gave his best performance in 2010 in Somewhere) is getting out of prison after four years, but before he leaves he receives a letter from his mentor in prison, the Buddha (Willem Dafoe), who asks him to kill someone for him. As soon as Charlie gets out of prison he goes looking for this man and receives a special payment from the Buddha. However, something goes wrong with the hit and Charlie can't quite settle his debt with him. Along the way Charlie encounters a mysterious woman named Florence (Michelle Monaghan) who for I don't know what reason sees the good in Charlie and tries to rescue him from his pain. Together they embark on a road trip and half of the time you don't even know what the two are talking about. It's hard to explain the plot of the movie when nothing really makes much sense and most of the things going on seems like they are all imagined by Charlie. There is a thin line between reality and fantasy here, and Charlie has some serious and dark unresolved issues going on. I really hated this movie and I can't say it enough times, stay as far away from this film as possible. http://estebueno10.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow You're Gone a.k.a. Boot Tracks is a Thriller that centers on Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff), who prior of getting released from prison gets a message from his "mentor" - "The Buddha" (Willem Dafoe) to kill somebody... But the murder goes wrong and Charlie gets seriously effected by it... meanwhile Charlie begins to have some serious hallucinations because of his past and because of what he's doing... On a way he meets these mysterious girl Florence Jane (Michelle Monaghan) who reminds him of someone he used to know and together they embark on a mysterious journey...Tomorrow You're Gone is a typical B-class movie, directed by the director of "Down in The Valley", David Jacobson and starring Stephen Dorff, who does his usual thing, Michelle Monaghan and Willem Dafoe in a small but efficient part as he gives the movie more class...I wouldn't recommend this movie to everybody, but as long as you're a fan of any member of the cast or if you like these kind of movies...then go for it, if not just "forget about it" cuz it's not worth it.PS: it's only 88 minutes long..