Why so much hype?

As Good As It Gets

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

One problem with Turkish comedy is that it tends to be very specific to Turkey: if you aren't Turkish (or living in Turkey), you won't understand a sit-com like Türk Malı or Avrupa Yakası, and you'll even miss a lot of the jokes in a SF comedy like G.O.R.A. Organize İşler (confusingly untranslated as "Magic Carpet Ride" after one of the songs in the soundtrack) is unusual in that it manages to be very Turkish in feel, but universal in its humour.The film shows us the lives of two families: a middle-class intellectual couple and their daughter on the one side, and the "family" of organized crime on the other. In between is a failed stand-up comedian, "Superman" Samet, whose attempt to hang himself (dressed in his Superman costume) at the beginning of the film is interrupted by our criminal anti-hero Asim, who is escaping a jealous husband. The plot continues in a similarly absurd vein, and critics have complained about the story's disregard for logic, but then this is a comedy; nobody complains that Monty Python and the Holy Grail has an absurd plot. The important thing is that the characters are well drawn, from the irritatingly logical physics professor Nuran to the lovable but unprincipled and incompetent Asim, and the dialogue is hilarious, with a lot of the humour surviving translation. The film also gives a great picture of the contrasts of İstanbul (even though the scenes of the "çingene" neighborhood where the gang live seem to be from İzmir).

i have been hearing all the time that the movie was not so good, but had some marvelous scenes of Istanbul. so i hesitated to choose it as a Sunday night movie to watch with my wife.it turned out to be a perfect choice with more than i expected. knowing Yilmaz Erdogan's earlier movies which don't have a real scenario but some funny dialogs, i wasn't expecting more than that. however i came up with a fulfilled cinema movie with well organized scenario, very smart dialogs, and of course, really the best actors and actresses of the genre. And also scenes from Istanbul were really amazing which increased the taste. it was really a nice choice to watch with lots of fun and never boring.

Organize Isler revolves around a good-willed character, a gangster-to-be thief played by Yilmaz Erdogan who is one of the most talented actor/writer/director in Turkey. The plot is not too complicated, but the dialogs are very well written and you can giggle and laugh increasingly through the movie. Plus, it has really magnificent views, mostly from above, like you are flying above this cosmopolitan, colorful, intimate city. The rest of the cast is also very skilled, most of the one of the best in their league. One of the is Cem Yilmaz, the most famous comedy actor in Turkey, with a relatively small role in this one (has done a great job with it if you ask me). I really liked watching this movie, felt like cruising through a hilarious story! If you are from Turkey, you will have a good time watching Organize Isler. But I do not know if you can get the humor if you don't know Turkish. It probably depends on how good the translation is. Still, I think the movie has a lot of specifically Turkish jokes that you can only get if you are Turkish or if you have lived in Istanbul for a long time. Then again, if you don't get all the jokes, you will have a great look at a great city from a cheerful, sunny screen.

As a veteran theater writer and player, Yilmaz Erdogan's first movies, although being funny to average cinema audience, were not more than theatrical sketches on the big screen.But by this movie, he really managed to shot a real cinema movie. It's got every aspect of a cinema movie, nice plot, good detailed characters, telling the story by acting and good direction, not by direct dialogs.You might see critics or news about the movie that're saying "it's a movie about Istanbul or it's no more than beautiful air-videos of the city" but this is not true, it's just an illusion that our media likes to create on everything valuable in order to make it look less than actually it is --what a devil act--.I might call it as a funny love story adventure.Of course there are some flaws with the movie. It's hard to grasp what kind of relationship Erdogan's character has got with his ex-wife and his daughter and why he has to spy his own daughter and need to kidnap her from her school. They are the scenes that Erdogan felt the story gets weak and he used direct dialogs.Place selections although being diverse, it's sometimes confusing to audience, ex-wife and her dentist husband seem to be neighbors of the other mafia group? I think, there is only one condition in Erdogan's mind for being rich and it is living in Degirmenkoy! Last but not least, no character represents common Turkish people in this movie, I'm not saying this because I think every movie should do it, but from boring professor to mafia boys they are not like majority living in this country and movie doesn't actually tell anything important while claiming it does. So, after a couple of months nobody will remember this movie ever existed.I hope Erdogan's next projects will be more strong and closer to real people's real lives...