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.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

It's a nice repeat shot. Inspectors or filmmakers will see that this is a slightly altered repetition of an old Filmin. Of course, not as impressive as the original, but a new character joined the director. If I had been watching for the first time, I'm sure I was more impressed, but that's the job again. I can say it's worth watching. The final part is good, although there are not too many corner points. The shooting style and the procession are also beautiful. A tight tension. I would definitely recommend watching the kind fans.GUIDANCE OF THE DIRECTOR: Director Brian De Palma did a good job. It was a return film after a long ride. But I think it's a low quality film compared to its quality. But ultimately De Palma is a good cook. Eat what you cook.

Whilst searching round on the BBC iPlayer for the Nordic Noir series Follow The Money,I found out that the BBC had recently shown auteur film maker Brian De Palma's latest Neo-Noir.With the movie starring the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,I decided that it was time to find out how passionate passion could get.The plot:Running a leading ad agency, Christine Stanford finds Isabelle James designs to stand out from the pack. Beginning to work closer with Standford begins to passionately charm James. Initially supporting James ideas,Standford changes her mind when she discovers that James has secretly slept with her lover Dirk Harriman.As Stanford reveals her fangs and tries to bully James out of the business,James starts to investigate Stanford's relationship with Harriman,and begins to make her own passion play.View on the film:Rolling the opening with a shot of an Apple Mac,co-writer/(along with Natalie Carter) director Brian De Palma cakes the title in decadent glamour,where all the "perfect" advert images and shiny tech are a mask for the decay laying underneath.Backed by an operatic score from Pino Donaggio,De Palma and cinematographer José Luis Alcaine reflect Neo-Noir low-lighting with bitter dark comedy.Sliding spilt-screens and extreme close-ups across the canvas, Da Palma gives the title a surprisingly playful atmosphere,due to each deadly turn James and Stanford take in their bitter feud allowing Da Palma to twist homages of his past works onto the screen.Inspired by the French Film Noir Crime d'amour, (which I've sadly not seen yet) the screenplay by De Palma & Natalie Carter gloriously threads a peculiar "Women's Picture" with crooked Neo-Noir teeth.Breaking into off-beat dream sequences,De Palma and Carter give James and Standford a soft shell which shatters into brittle Neo- Noir pieces as Standford's attempts to get revenge on James unveil a frosty Femme Fatale dame.Looking absolutely dazzling in the long lone shadows and 50's-style clothes, Rachel McAdams gives a great performance as Christine Stanford,with McAdams peeling away Stanford's elegant image to fully display her acid tongue,femme fatale sting.Pushed around by everyone In sight, Noomi Rapace gives an fantastic performance as Isabelle James,thanks to Rapace giving James a fragility which hardens into a Noir shield of rage,as James reveals her passion.

"I used to want to be admired. Now I want to be loved."We can all agree that Brian De Palma directed some of his best films during the 80's and 90's (Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible, and Body Double) and let us not forget about his 1976 classic horror film Carrie, but it has been nearly two decades since he has made a great film. We can make a case for him that he doesn't nearly direct as much as he used to considering it took him five years to make Passion while in the 80's he directed nine films and five during the 90's. However his latest efforts haven't made much of a splash with critics nor audiences. It may come as a surprise however that Passion has a sort of 80's retro feel to it and that De Palma included some of his classic trademarks like the split screen, long takes with dolly movements, dopplegangers, and several dreamy sequences. Fans of De Palma might enjoy the fact that in Passion he revists these recurring themes, but at the same time he introduces those elements in such way that they feel like a parody of his own work. More than a De Palma film, Passion feels like an attempt from one of his fans to honor his past work with deliberately forced dialogue and over the top performances. It is a B-movie, but one I really had a difficult time enjoying. There are ridiculous amounts of twists that make very little sense and I lost interest in the story pretty quickly. Passion is actually a remake of Alain Corneau's 2010 French film, Crime d'amour (Love Crime), starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier, and that film seems far more appealing than this one. De Palma adapted the screenplay for this remake which stars Rachel McAdams as a manipulative advertising agency boss in Germany named Christine. Her protégé, Isabelle (Noomi Rapace), proves to be very talented when she comes up for a slick advertising campaign for a cell phone company. Executives in the United States are fascinated by the concept she came up with, but when Christine takes credit for her protégé's work things begin to get complicated between them. It doesn't help that Isabelle is having a secret affair with Dirk (Paul Anderson), who happens to be dating Christine. No one is actually who they seem to be in this world and things begin to get out of hand pretty quickly when Christine tries to publicly humiliate Isabelle. Caroline Herfuth also plays a secondary role as Isabelle's assistant with who she is a bit obsessive with.It only took me about ten minutes into the film to lose much of my interest in the film. The acting was over the top and the dialogue extremely forced, and I know that it was intentional but it didn't make for an interesting satire either. Passion is a film that obsesses over its style and forgets about its substance. The long takes with dolly movements are incredibly distracting at times and I didn't feel they served any purpose in the story. The final third act is incredibly dull while trying to be clever layering one twist after another which doesn't make much sense. I honestly didn't find any redeeming quality from Passion and couldn't even enjoy the performances from the talented cast because the story was too painful to get through. http://estebueno10.blogspot.com/

The storyline is laughable, the soundtrack is genuinely borderline between comical and plain awful. The majority of the acting is dreadful. It is not well-shot, the directing is poor; genuinely the film has no redeeming features. However, it is compulsive viewing as you have to watch it the end to ensure it's really as bad as you think it is. And in the end, it is. Rachel McAdams and Karoline Herfurth are the only two people in this film who do it any justice, in that, they are the only two people in the film who come across as capable of acting. As for everyone else, it also comes across that post-production did them no favours what-so-ever. A poor film that probably had the potential to be alright. The sets, costumes and locations are impressive, and that is about it.