Good start, but then it gets ruined

Absolutely amazing

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

For starters, I was let down 15min into the movie because I found out that the main actor wasn't Keanu Reeves (ok, maybe that's just an emotional argument). Before that, I was wondering why Reeves' character wasn't as good as I expected from him and how he could've fallen into such a lame role.But continuing with the rest of the movie: Photography sucks, everything is on the two bottom thirds of the screen, almost out of frame, which is terribly irritating. They were trying to be artsy, but it wasn't well executed (unlike "Her", which's Photography is also artsy, "hipster", but successfully centers on the appreciation of "the aesthetic"). Some effects were quite fake. Most of the effects were acceptable because that can happen when you lack a large budget or strong CGI tools, however, at some moments I don't know if they were going for "magical"? but it stopped at tacky, like it was edited by a 10-year-old. I saw it as unprofessional. User "Jody Bruchon" covers my points pretty well: "A story should work BECAUSE of the camera work, not IN SPITE of it."Acting and script are unnatural as well: Transitions between ideas in the conversations are totally unnatural and fake. Half of the time Justin Long's acting was —as user "Grasswerks" states it— "garbage", and Emmy Rossum's was "as cute as her face = barely." Hard to enjoy the potential and ideas of the movie when you're cringing because of all of these things.But there are also good things this work: I like some dialogues, the concepts behind it are very well stated, quotable, which is the reason this movie is saved from being reviewed less than 5 stars. The plot and concept of it being "like a painting, without a beginning or an end" are pleasant. I don't think the ending should be taken that seriously, else you're stuck with that unsatisfying "what type of ambiguity is this?" I didn't have a problem with it and even thought the last 20 min were the most enjoyable of the whole piece.It's a good movie to watch when you have some spare time and you're doing something parallel to watching it (i.e. it doesn't need your full attention; unless you want to suffer from the photography and acting).

Comet is unlike the majority of romantic/drama movies that are out there. The movie is about a man and a woman in a relationship that bounces back and forth between the highs and lows. The movie is more of a collection of memories that bounce between the 6-year relationship of the couple. The film was shot beautifully and truly captures the tone of each scene and the emotions that are supposed to be felt. The movie was almost presented as a puzzle. You have to pay attention and make sure to fit all of the pieces together. This is what makes it significantly different than most romantic movies, and definitely is a reason that it was such a great movie. The chemistry between the two lead stars, Justin Long and Emmy Rossum, is outstanding.A must watch.

Three stars because some of it wasn't done bad. Art, photography, lighting... But they were also pretty damn underwhelming for a film trying to be what it is.The review that says this is Annie Hall is bang on queue. This is got teenagers trying to find a deeper, arty and relatable movie. Teenagers and people who ... are impressed by pseudo art meets pseudo intellectual films.Justin Long is garbage. Emmy Rossum's acting is only as cute as her face = barely. And indeed, the undefined ending is less ambiguous and more like they didn't know what to do with the film once it was done.This movie was recommended on Netflix along with films like Upstream Color. ... Now THAT was a brilliant movie.

In his directorial debut Sam Esmail shows us that he is competent enough to put together 3/4 of what look like a promising film. Unfortunately he fell victim to the now common modern trend of ambiguous endings. This does not leave the viewer interpreting the ending, it just leaves the viewer wondering what happened to the rest of the film. ( Since it's an Indie Film, one might assume budget issues are to blame?) Although the dialogue was intriguing and somewhat humorous, not enough time was spent on character development, even though the co-stars Justin Long and Emma Rossum were in almost every scene together. I might have rated this film higher if a complete film was provided.