The Worst Film Ever

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

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

This could have been a good movie, instead it slowly faded away into a hotch-potch of pointless scenarios. Firstly, if you are seriously going to change your identity, to the extent where you buy new passports and papers of a dead person you don't leave your old identity papers in your golf-bag. You also don't carry thousands of dollars around in an old sports bag, maybe you could do if you lived in the Vatican, but in the USA you wouldn't. Then you would not pick up a young girl who is obviously mentally unstable for some unknown reasons and even if you did you would be an absolute fool to let her sleep in your motel room so that she has access to your private papers, money, id's etc. while you sleep like a baby. Thirdly, if you were a golf pro. and had been on TV playing golf with the greats, you would not be looking for a golf job under a different identity while being exactly the same physically . Can you imagine Greg Norman turning up at a Golf Club under the name of Bruce Smith, weeks after the real Greg Norman was pronounced 'missing presumed dead', Don't you think one or two golfers would mention that the new golf pro looks just like Greg Norman and is playing like Greg Norman? ......... so far not so good, then we enter the sex scene sagas, pointless escapades of sex in other peoples houses, I don't know if many watching this movie thought that was worth watching...... I certainly did not..... Sorry, but this movie misses the mark when unfortunately with a good script it could have been half way decent.

I like this kind of films to watch occasionally. I am not talking about the story, but the type of comedy. Like two unusual characters go on a ride and each one set to rediscover themselves. This one was a bit more than that. It tells the story of a divorced man who is not happy with his life, so decides to fake his death and take up a new identity to live somewhere else. Then he meets a woman who is throwing up her life for nothing. Now these two join hands for an unexpected adventure to an unknown destination. Well, they head towards with an intention, but without the plan to accomplish in a way. Very fun, but not like loudly laughable or even with a little smile. You will get that while you watch it.Both the British actors played the American role, but still with the British accent. They were good, I liked their combo, as well as the characters. The film was enjoyable, but something says it's not all well. It's not the production or the screenplay, or even the directional inexperience. It could be the thematic which was like from pre 60s or 70s. I bet you will remember the title 'Sullivan's Travels' and other similar. Basically, it is not comparable with others, but feels familiar with how everything was developed. So it is not for everyone, but some people might think it is very good. I stand in-between, but I don't know you are one of those, so why not try it and decide yourself.6/10

Like many of the viewers I chose to watch this for the stars, King George VI and Queen Victoria (Firth and Blunt) But I would have given it a pass if I had looked up the reviews before taking it out of my local library . Big mistake.Never have I seen a film so consistently panned, and never have I thought the critics so consistently mistaken! Both the professional critics and other amateur viewers. To be fair, the latter gave it slightly better ratings, but not much better. Few of either stripe liked it.Granted, it is not an easy film to watch. Its not a comedy and its not a road movie though it is zany and it does take place on the road. In fact it is in a category all its own, and for anyone who understands Colin Firth's line "Family just crushes your heart, doesn't it?", it is a deeply moving observation of what it means to be human. I won't say I came away from the movie feeling good, but I did come away feeling less alone.These are the last words spoken in the film, before each of the leading characters returns separately from their wild escapade to shoulder their family responsibilities. We see, and feel, them doing this with no words spoken.Charlotte(Mike) "Good bye, Wallace"Wallace(Arthur) "Don't worry. I know where to find you!"I give it 10 out of 10 Don't miss it.

In an obvious homage to (if not an outright rip-off of) Arthur Miller's seminal play about facing life in the fast lane of corporate America when a guy is a tortoise, not a hare, Miller's "successful" suicide Willie morphs into a slightly more imaginative "fake" suicide Wallace Avery, who dubs himself Arthur Newman (as in a New Man, get it?) in an attempt to use upwards of $50,000 from his savings account to start a new life. Despite giving himself the first name of a guy married to Marilyn Monroe (Miller), this "fake" Arthur is not a successful author when it comes to writing a fairy tale ending. Instead, he hooks up with an even bigger whacko, Mike (played by Emily Blunt) who is burdened by the urge to impersonate her institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic twin sister, whose condition drove their mom to suicide! Naturally, "Arthur" and "Mike" decide that the best step toward making a happier future for themselves is to stage a series of role-playing home invasions. Is this enough to carry a light comedy? I've seen a lot worse.