Wow! Such a good movie.

Such a frustrating disappointment

Really Surprised!

Expected more

Well Intentioned Post-Terror Musings on a Mother's Loss of Her Son (what grief there is for Her Husband is virtually absent) from, not one, but four, in tandem Suicide Bombers at a Stadium in London.Extremely Heavy Handed and sometimes Incoherent and Rambling Story. Badly Edited, the Film seems Pasted Together from a Committee of Mentally Challenged Monkeys. Things Happen without the Least Bit of Coherence (the middle with the Teenage Boy as one example) and the Triangle Romance is just Awkward and Distracting.Michelle Williams in a Difficult Role is Ravaged by it all and spends most of the Movie completely Disheveled and Delusional, in Tears, Distressed, and Depressed. Then a Segment Pops Up where She is Completely Gone, Hallucinating and Detached from Reality.The Biggest Problem is the Movie Never comes together and Appears Random and Rushed. The Music is just Awful and the Film is a Heavy Duty Downer. It Needs a Finesse of the Heart and Soul. It Feels like it was made, Tossed in a Blender, and Released without Regard for its Deep Subject Matter and the Emotional Attachment that it would Demand from the Audience.

This film has been maligned because the director previously directed a "Bridget Jones" movie. Yes, those movies were shallow, but this film "Incendiary" has a few decent points, and Michelle Williams is worth watching.Basically a neglected housewife who's son and husband are in a soccer match in Chelsea when an act of terrorism is committed. The daily life scenes as we see her apartment and her husbands UN-glamorous job as a bomb prevention specialist are realistic. The beach scenes with her little boy are relate-able without being overly dramatic.The "letter to Osama" suggested by a hospital nurse is a ridiculous statement to say to a grieving mother who has lost her son and husband. Especially in a random act of terrorism. No doubt anyone who has lost a loved one will agree with this. The grief Michelle Williams emotes is believable here, she is alienated and dissociated from the world around her.Yes the scene with the stuffed rabbit is a ploy we have seen, but it is believable. A person in this situation is not going to sit in group therapy and want to share all the pain and horror they have just witnessed. The pain is at first internalized and sometimes hidden from the outside world.The Ewan McGregor character, who has an affair with the grieving mother at the time the incident occurs, seems to be added in at the last minute and extraneous. Other than driving her to the scene of the bombing and visiting her once at the hospital he does not seem to contribute very much to the overall story.The visuals are very good, the gritty streets of London and the building she lives in, versus the Welllington building of the upper class.The story itself is worth watching and Michelle Williams gives a sympathetic and nice understated performance here. Don't discount this film. Recommended. 8/10.

I just rented this yesterday without knowing anything about it beforehand. I sincerely think that it is an awfully bad film. I read a few of the reviews posted and cannot agree with the reviewers that say that if you don't like this movie you are either "an idiot, a zombie or who someone who likes action films and (evidently in their opinion) cannot understand anything else". If we are here to discuss (or comment) about movies let's just do so. Here are my plus points: good acting all around, good photography. Here are my minus points: 1) Unnecessarily complicated storyline. If you take away the Ewan McGregor character and the affair with the policeman, the story, which regards a woman losing her husband and child in a terrorist attack in London, would still stand-up and probably have been more focused. Did they need to make the movie longer just to reach 90mins? 2) Some characters are not believable. How does Ewan McGregor get to own an Aston Martin etc? Someone commented "who cares about the car". I wouldn't care but in films, if you have something that doesn't fit-in with the character it makes you think that maybe there is a reason for it then you start thinking what that reason could it be and, will running after butterflies, you lose focus on the principal storyline which I think is the drama of a woman losing her child in a bomb attack and everything else that goes with it.. Given that for some reason this character had to be in the film, if he had a Ford (for example) I think it would have been much better. By the way, for once I think that the Italian title is much more apt: translated it means "without apparent reason" which I believe answers the question of why this film was made.

The thing I abhor most about selecting an unfamiliar movie from the rental or bargain bins is being lied to by the copywriters who decorate the DVD case with descriptions that have nothing to do with the movie. This film was the last straw and I will no longer choose movies I know nothing about based on the cover blurbs.I was in the mood for a thriller - the most prominent word on the DVD case - and the promise of a gripping terrorist theme with a woman at the center of a police investigation was right up my alley. Instead, I was presented with a somber, slow moving, often disjointed story with weak character development and periodic attempts at artistic visuals. Though all of the acting was very good, it did not make up for the empty plot tangents that dragged down the pace nor did it improve the frequent sappy dialog.This movie is one long whine about a lonely woman's grief and guilt, a supposedly very ordinary woman who nevertheless is the object of desire of many men and who has not even one relative or friend in the world. Despite the hopeful ending, a sad movie that really doesn't take you anywhere or reveal any new insights means I've wasted my time. Only 2 out of 10 stars for the acting and the cinematography.