Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Paul Schrader graduates into the "you can mix anything with anything" school of film making and does it with a national treasure in Israel. An Israeli/German/American production, Jeff Goldblum gives his best performance as a Geman-Jew performer/magician who goes through the 3rd Reich syndrome of modern imagined hells in order to describe a loving relationship between two humans lost in the performance/performer confusion. Schrader's strict Calvinist upbringing has always had him swimming deep into deepness and here he's once again in his element. He goes into detail on the commentary about his new thing in directing going from Hollywood classicism to the "anything goes" of today's transcendence into free-style mixing coming out of the electronic music revolution of the '90s. He talks about this at the following times on the commentary: 37:16—43:15, 45:50—48:52, 49:49—59:02, and 1:21:18— 1:24:09. Adapted from Yoram Kaniuk's '70s novel, Schrader needed to 'get hip' to have a chance with this creative masterwork. So did Goldblum who is working against his own past gestalt of clowning and goofing. Here he ironically can utilise a lot of this schtick; and he outdoes himself actually acting as good as he 'teaches' in LA (to get lots of legendary ass). Not a masterpiece, but ably offers a real adaptation of a very complex novel, a very rare accomplishment as Schrader talks about in the commentary and panel discussion. Fossilized Hollywood gets real stupid regarding 'translating' since they think they will miss the original product and lose the magical 'free' $. Art is actually required. Schrader is an honorary Jew and very similar in personality. Looking forward to the second half of his amazing career.

I read all the reviews for this film and I have to agree with someone who once said that rectums and opinions are something that everyone shares. The film was not liked by some for not displaying what they thought it should. I liked it because it resonated with me on a certain level.Earlier this week I was riding a streetcar in Toronto and saw a number of homeless people begging on the streets, and wondered why are they there and I am here. I am not that ambitious or a go getter but somehow I have survived the last twenty years of economic downturns, where they did not.That point comes up in this film, the protagonist is haunted by the fact that he survived where so many did not. It also made me think for the first time in my life, the survivors of the death camps must have had some severe mental heath issues, a theme I do not think has been addressed much in the past with the exception of the Pawn Broker.The film really did hit home and regardless if you think the theme of the holocaust has been done to death, (as one Danish reviewer did) this film had a different slant on it. It made me think deeply about things that frankly never occurred to me before.For that reason I rate this film high not because I think the other earlier reviewers are wrong but simply because I saw it differently.A good film, it might be disturbing, it might annoy but watch it at least once.

I would never,never had gone thru the process to write a review unless it was the kind of movie like this: one Part One flew over the cuckoo nest and one part Earaserhead and one part Anne Frank and one part Elephant Man.It is grotesque yet teaches lessons and confronts life and all of its concerns.By far the best horror movie I have ever seen in my life!William Dafoe is at his sickest best and yet he is looking for and getting no sympathy or even pity.He is a horrible,horrible monster that could only have been created by the Nazi Hate Machine.The young boy that plays the dog does it with earnestness and yet resists the urge to make it into child's play or a sick comedy.Sorry for the simplicity but it is my very first review of a movie.Loved it!

Intriguing and surreal movie with an outstanding performance by Jeff Goldblum, whose name should have been in the mix for any number of acting awards for this film. Holocaust-related movies generally don't get deliver box office results, but this is a strikingly good treatment that deserves a wider audience. Watch it and get the word of mouth out there.Paul Schrader, whose had a hand in more than a few films about human darkness, creates an intriguing film here. The "arms" scene at towards the end of the film is worth the price of admission on its own. Right up there with "I am Spartacus" or the "I'm still here, you bastards" last line from "Papillon". Powerful stuff. Derek Jacobi, Willem DeFoe, Ayelet Zurer, a frighteningly good Romanian kid named Tudor Rapiteanu, and the rest of international cast do yeoman's work.Always been a fan of Jeff Goldblum's read on a line...and he's at the top of his game in "Adam".