Very well executed

Sorry, this movie sucks

one of my absolute favorites!

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This is a completely ambiguous (although not exactly bad) movie, which personally inspired me to read the novels of the author of the idea and one of the co-authors of the scenario of postmodernist Don De Lillo. I do not think that even because of Robert Pattinson "Cosmopolis" like all the fans of the vampire movie "Twilight" - this is a completely different kind and different style of the film. I would even say a little crazy and chaotic. Do you know what he looks like? On what is happening in each of us in the head ... Each of us, when we are awake and not focused on something important and concrete, hundreds of thoughts, thoughts, memories sweep through our heads. If you take them to voice - then you'll surely roar in a psychiatric hospital, because no one in the world, except ourselves, is able to catch the interconnections of this "brain kaleidoscope." This is our inner universe, our cosmos, which for outsiders is never completely incomprehensible. That's the hero of Pattinson - multi-billionaire Eric Packer - even those who know him well can not be fully understood. Of course, it is clear that he is devilishly bored, being unable to at least rejoice or grieve. Neither sex, nor frenzied profits, nor so mad losses, nor crazy and useless acquisitions for fantastic sums, nor even murder, can not excite him. And you want to worry ... And as a person who has not fought for a banal survival for a day in his life, did not live on wages, did not submit to anyone and (without having everything that can be bought for money) did not dream at all - how to "get him" its "rich inner world"? How can he learn to enjoy simple things - like good weather, the opportunity to buy new shoes or affectionate SMS from his beloved woman? Oh yes - he does not have such a thing and can not be. Love in an atmosphere of boredom and cold does not live ... The wife of Packer, incidentally, is just as unhappy self-centered. But even she became uncomfortable with him-not even two weeks after the wedding ... How can he be upset with simple things-like leaving a partner, losing money or damaging an expensive car, if he does not care about a partner in general (there are many others, and he does not need to win them) , losses will not drive him to live in a slum, and such machines he nemereno? However, it seems the last frame makes it clear that Eric finally succeeded in something to FEEL. Well done, ran into and achieved the goal ... And paid, as always, expensive. So, about incomprehensibility - not satiated people can understand why Packer is bored. But how to understand how he can generally be bored with such and such opportunities? Director David Cronenberg, in my opinion, greatly complicated himself the task - to shoot the event HISTORY in - mostly - a limited space (whether it is a submarine, a room or - in this case - a limousine) is extremely difficult. It would seem, well, that such - the rich man in a limousine rides and dumps the listener with sarcastic monologues. What's in this movie? But the movie! And cult star Robert Pattinson is very good here. Packer at the actor turned out clean, tough and infernally inviting. The role of a person who does not know how to be happy, in my opinion, he has worked flawlessly. ... By the way, this Cronenberg film with its desperate atmosphere reminded me of the novels of the Frenchman Serge Bruissolo, a great lover of exploring (and fascinatingly telling) the origins of the most strange and crazy human deeds. NOT FOR ALL ..... 7 out of 10.

A stupidly rich young man sits in a limo and rides towards his barber meeting. Around him the city gets crazier and crazier as the society crumbles in the throes of an economical crisis. Or at least that's what I think happens... The movie isn't big on explaining stuff.As the stupidly rich young man rides across the city, things happen. He has his daily doctor appointment right there in his limo, he argues with his wife about sex, has sex with just about every other woman he meets, talks with his business associates, hires bodyguards (one of them being a woman he eventually bangs), and so worth. None of this really moves the plot forwards, none of this really connects with anything else. The movie tries to rely on mood and an interesting situation to hook you in, but it lacks the core structure. Plus it tries to make economics into a philosophy, which only reminds me how much I hate the whole subject. At least a film like The Big Short, which is also about economics, makes the whole subject interesting by talking about the people behind it. This tries to elevate economics into an art form, if not a religion in its own right, but it just doesn't have the depth to pull it off.The film has a couple of merits to its name. The story is artsy garbage, but at least the film looks really good and director David Cronenberg's touch is clearly visible across the board. Plus the final scene, where two mentally ill people sit in a trashy low-end apartment and try to make their personal neuroses resonate with one another, is pretty cool. It's still artsy, but in an entertaining manner.All in all I'm sure the film has its fans because it throws enough stuff at the screen that some of it has to stick with certain people. Personally I didn't get enough out of it to be satisfied, but perhaps the fault lies with me.

One evening I tried to watch it (up to somewhere 20 -30 min) and I found it too complex to follow. I gave up and decided to watch it again when I am not tired and can follow the plot. I haven't read the book so I can not comment and can not make comparisons with it.Next day I enjoyed it more and was able to use the IP TV functions to go back to the most compacted wording scenes and was able to better follow the plot. I was fascinated by the surrealistic and exaggerated character of Eric Packer. Compare it to "The Wolf of Wall street" - Cosmopolis is the dark and ugly side of it.The pacing in the first part and after meeting (the character) Benno Levinis, cutting the world of Eric in two. Just like when I lost my job as a senior finance manager and had to stay 11 month at home - the change in pace is breathtaking and mind blowing. You have to experience to believe it possible! A film packed with existential quotes ... a truly European film. July 2016

It's a very challenging, difficult film to enjoy, but I did, mostly because the director has luckily found a clever and apt metaphor for the slow inevitable descent of society into chaos, mayhem, and oblivion which we're all currently experiencing, whether or not you realize it. Our world is on track to implode into some real horrible sh*t very soon, but everyone's coasting along like skaters on some very thin ice, seemingly unaware that their terrible fate lies inches away just below their shuffling feet. As the limo very slowly rolls and stops on it's interrupted journey through the mean, nasty city which is bursting into revolutionary madness the protagonist, a surprisingly compelling Robert Pattinson, manages to keep my gaze averted from all the increasingly ugly things occurring outside the tinted power windows and focused upon his sincerely fascinating face. I felt as though I was being invited. emphatically, to pay attention to the man behind the curtain, except in the case of this profoundly disturbing film the Wizard is not a loud mouthed little phony. No, this Master of this Universe is a genuinely powerful and twisted fellow. If you hate to have to think or ponder or even consider for a moment what anything means in a film--or in life--you're sure to really, really hate this deliberately annoying and confrontational film. But if you're anything like me and you don't mind being asked to contemplate the bizarre nature of our ever more devolving, collapsing society then you, too, should find this deeply unusual cinematic stunt to be quite worthwhile. It's not always fun or pleasant to watch, but it's extremely original and undeniably haunting. And it has some neat surprises from some very good supporting players, especially a superb Paul Giamatti as an especially ominous and unpleasant sort of Angel of Death.