What a waste of my time!!!

Disturbing yet enthralling

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

360 lacks the glint of malice and sardonic cynicism of its model, Schnitzler's La Ronde, filmed in 1950 by Max Ophfuls. It wastes the talents of two fine actors, Jude Law and Anthony Hopkins. Law's part, in particular, amounts to a sniffle and a sneeze; Hopkins is given a monologue — in which he conveys the secret of life according to a Jesuit he knows: "Fuck it." His search for his missing daughter never acquires suspense or urgency. And the sterile, fluorescent lit morgue sucks oxygen from the movie. 360 is a travelogue that pings from Berlin to Paris to London and pongs to Denver and Phoenix and back again. But in each city we see only hotel rooms and airports. A drive around Vienna's famed Ringstrasse, the final act is meant to connote the casting off of shackles — from employer, from exploitative sister — in favor of impulse, liberation, and life. But it leaves us skeptical that the pair will end up differently from the couple at the end of The Graduate, a film with which it otherwise has little in common.

This is an international cast directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God) of a marginally-connected multiple-plots. They all deal with sex and lust in some way. Sisters Anna (Gabriela Marcinkova) and Mirka (Lucia Siposová) are in Vienna where Mirka is starting as a call girl named Blanca. British businessman Michael Daly (Jude Law) has made an appointment with Blanca but he runs into some vendors looking to doing business. He immediately abandons the appointment, but one of the sleazy vendors finds out his appointment and blackmails him for his business. Michael's wife Rose (Rachel Weisz) has an affair with photographer Rui (Juliano Cazarré). Rui's girlfriend Laura (Maria Flor) dumps him and she travels back home. Laura meets John (Anthony Hopkins) on the flight and she learns that he is looking for his missing daughter. On a stop-over, sex offender Tyler (Ben Foster) has just been released and is tempted by aggressive Laura in her hotel room.There are a couple other story lines. Some are interesting. Most notably is Ben Foster and his powerful performance. Others are boring as hell. When Jude Law gets blackmailed, I thought that storyline had potential but it completely fizzled. That's how I feel about this movie. I thought it had potential, but other than a couple of sections, there was very little realized.

Taking as its, admittedly uncredited, source Arthur Schnitzler's play "Reigen", screen-writer Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles' 360 combines several stories in something of the disjointed manner of Inarritu's "Amores Perros" or "Babel". It's very skillfully made and yes, it holds our attention but that's all it does. On an emotional level it never really engages us and the 'stories', which are naturally related, aren't particularly interesting. The film is clever, well-written, often beautifully directed and the large, international cast are all fine but there's a distinct lack of substance; this isn't a memorable film. Still, there is at least one thing about this film that is great and it occurs whenever Anthony Hopkins is on screen. It isn't a big part and there isn't a great deal of character development in the writing but Hopkins is such a great actor that he makes the part great. You get the impression he's making it up as he goes along; in other words, you feel you are seeing a real person rather than the actor playing him. He's only on screen for much too short a time but he's magnificent. As can he guessed from the title, the film is called 360 because the stories go full circle; if only they had been better this film might have been as great as something like "Amores Perros" or "Pulp Fiction" which were constructed in much the same way. It's certainly not a bad film but it could have been so much better while the closing story seems both melodramatic and really rather tagged on for effect. On hindsight this would probably have made a good six-part television series rather than a two hour movie.

This way it goes back and forth between countries and peoples lives does remind me of crash but it isn't as good as crash. When initially watching the beginning of the movie i thought it was another film because i didn't recognise the actors and it was in another language. It did follow up on the rule that it only takes six connections before someone else knows you. This film was very realistic and i believe the music was well chosen for each scene. This film is dreadfully slow...there isn't anything fast paced included in it. I wouldn't necessarily define it as a romance either it is quite passionless. The atmosphere is very shallow. I think the film was put together in a great way but the plot of the story wasn't as good as i was expecting. However i really wish john found his daughter at the end...he looks so alone. This should have been a television program.