the leading man is my tpye

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

During the viewing of this sweet nostalgic look at backstage life, I wondered how anybody came up with the funding for it! Nobody gets thrown out of a window, no cars explode, there are no scenes of bloody carnage, and there's not even one cute dog. But there is a romanticized slice of honest Americana, a look back at the theatre rehearsals that lead up to a revolutionary production of Julius Caesar, one directed by the 22 year old Orson Welles; framing the tale is also a coming-of-age romance between young Zac Efron and one of two young women he meets as he is hired by Welles to play a bit part in the play--for those with some knowledge of the Mercury Theatre, its fascinating to see a spot-on impersonation of young Joseph Cotten played by Joseph Tupper, but the entire joy of the film is meeting Orson himself in the person of Christian McKay, who seems imbued with the spirit of the man in an uncanny revelatory performance, worth all 107 minutes of the film. This is a film for folks interested in theatre or the cinema, and will doubtless be lost on those in search of realistic action adventures--there's just a hint of early Woody Allen in the film, too--and my hope is that someone is already looking for a another, more complex look at the Boy Genius starring McKay.

when i first heard of the movie i didn't give it much attention first because i thought it's a Zac Efron movie and second bc i didn't know what the hick it's about but tonight when i was scrolling down the channels i noticed a movie about the 30s which am crazily fond of and boom her is zac who i thought was the least talented actor in America but i had nothing to do so i gave it a shot and thank god i did because this film is one of the best films I've ever seen and zac really surprised me with his acting which was serious and impressive and he also made me laugh with some of his well delivered lines.on the other hand, who really impressed me in this was the actor playing orson welles i don't know his name and I've never seen him in a movie before but he made me feel like he's the most famous actor in the world. of course the other cast members are astonishing even the small roles are noticeable which proves what a great director linklater must be.the music, the costumes, the color of the movie, the dialogue, all in all the movie made my day and it deserved more credit. i promise you won't full a sleep watching it

An international cast is assembled for Me And Orson Welles telling about a young aspiring actor gets a part in the Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar while still in high school. The young man gets quite a few life lessons, most of which revolve around working with the ego of America's theatrical genius Orson Welles.This American story is in fact a British production quite frankly because those folks across the pond have far better diction than our players here for the most part. The trick for them is to get our American speech patterns down and the cast did to a remarkable degree. Christian McKay plays the imperious Orson Welles who was Lord and Master of the Mercury Theater company. McKay got the Welles character down really well so much so you think you are actually looking at a newsreel of young Welles even before he became known to the world with Citizen Kane.To insure some box office for Me And Orson Welles, Zac Efron played the aspiring Richard Samuels who with a stroke of luck gets an impromptu street audition and wins the minor role of Lucius, servant to Brutus in the Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar. He and Welles kind of bond until of all things a woman comes between them, the ambitious Claire Danes who is looking for all kinds of help and isn't at all concerned about what she has to do to get to the top.Zac Efron is certainly trying his best to escape the restrictions that being a discovery of the Disney Studios can put on a career. He speaks his lines convincingly during the scenes of the Julius Caesar production. Later on in High School English he speaks some dialog from Julius Caesar with real conviction and the experience of a man of the world which he has become. The same might be said for Efron in his professional life.I'm sure that Zoe Kazan who plays the young woman who Zac meets in a record shop and granddaughter of Elia must have heard a lot of stories about the exciting times of the Broadway theater in the Thirties from her grandfather. She brought a lot of that to her role and turned in a winning performance.Me And Orson Welles does a splendid job in recapturing a very special era in the America of the New Deal and that a British production did it, they should rate some special kudos.

Monotone is the best suited word to describe it. I love every other Linklater film and I've been postponing to watch this film because I don't think "Junior", played by Effron, is much of an actor. Well, I was right, the kid overacts, delivers some of his lines as if he's reading from the script as they're shooting it and even reacts before the right moment. In this scene, where the character played by Kelly Reilly kisses him on the cheek, the kid literally reacts to the kiss before it is even landed. But the problem with this film is not the teenage idol. I don't understand why a brilliant writer such as Richard Linklater would choose to direct someone else's script, specially a particularly horrible one. This film is an insult to New York period films post Mad Men; the characters act - or overact - as if they are on a play the entire time. I don't know whose fault it is, but I doubt it was Linklater's who usually goes for the natural performances, sometimes even improvs. Unless you're a 12 year-old teenage girl who never heard of Orson Welles, you have nothing to take from this, not even entertainment.