Really Surprised!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Now don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a movie that sheds light on the issues that school bullying brings, but the attempt to humanize someone who took the lives of others is just too much. If you want a great film on the subject, I suggest Bully. A first hand account from people who live through bullying trumps a violent bloodbath being used to push someones agenda any day (you hear me Micheal Moore?) When I first heard about this film, I was excited. No, not because Daryl Dixon was going to play one of the leads, but because this is a very real problem in our society today, one that hits close to home for myself and my friends. I sat down with a friend to watch the trailer when it came out. Less than 30 seconds into the trailer, she was in the bathroom, puking. Why, you may ask, did my friend throw up? Within those 30 seconds, she got to relive losing one of her friends during the shooting at their high school. And I mean really relive it as the person on screen was killed the exact same way. Even the trailer shows the director/writer blatantly using the deaths of real people who died in school shootings for "inspiration" behind the deaths in the movie (our friends were not bully's. They were victims of a demented mind that wanted attention. Of all the people he killed, not a single one had EVER bullied him.) She didn't finish the trailer and her words were, "The only way I'd watch that movie is if Norman Reedus AND the director watched it with me. That way they could see first hand the effect that it has. Reedus can hold my hair while I puke." I, being the glutton for punishment that I am, did finish the movie. Not without difficulty I assure you. I site all of the above negative reviews as my reasons along with the deep sadness of watching people killed in the same manner as people I knew. I get the feeling that 'fans' of Norman Reedus are the only reason that this movie doesn't have one star. While Mr. Reedus and Mr. Backstrom did OK in their rolls, it just wasn't enough to save the sinking ship that is Hello Herman. If you love Norman Reedus, by all means watch away. Just keep your kids away from this movie. To me it feels more like a blueprint in how to get attention than it does a warning of what could happen. Never. Again.

I'm terribly disappointed with this film. If you think this is a spoiler then stop reading...It paints a sincerely false belief that video games are the sole reason this kid did violence. "That" is what is shoved down your throat in the foreground of this film, all throughout it. While in the background, pale examples of this kids abusers and a lack of anyone to turn to are the real reasons behind his violent outburst.Stop trying so hard to convince people that violent video games encourage people to be violent when in reality, people being violent to another person while teachers do "nothing" about it, and with no one at all for this kid to talk to about his problems and without being provided with ANY realistic solutions to his problem, is why he became violent.

Normally I wouldn't review a movie that I couldn't finish, but I can't let the shill reviews stand. This is a bad movie: badly written, badly acted, and contrived in every element. The quality is lower than a soap opera, the tone is more juvenile than a children's movie, the propaganda is more shameless than North Korean TV. When a movie is so slanted that it makes you question its unfair treatment of child killers and Neo-Nazis something has gone terribly wrong. The subject of school shooters has been handled better in several movies, and this adds nothing, a movie for idiots by idiots. I almost hope that this is some sick satire, it would help me sleep at night knowing that there aren't such demented morons out there, though that wouldn't really change my rating, because then it would just be a very bad joke.

Michelle Danner's Hello Herman is truly thought provoking. The film's primary timeline follows the aftermath of a tragic school shooting, and, most startlingly, does so from the point of view of the killer himself (played by Garrett Backstrom). Herman (Backstrom) agrees to do interviews with the film's main character, Lax (Reedus), and it is through the course of these interviews that the full story is uncovered. The film is truly powerful, and does what I think many films are afraid to do, which is showing both sides of the story. I think its true success lies in the fact that it never forgives Herman necessarily, but highlights the humanity behind his role, and reminds viewers that the key to stopping these incidents of violence is not more violence, but perhaps more understanding. That's how I saw it, anyway. Excellent movie, a must-see.