Truly Dreadful Film

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) has an imaginary friend in the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot. He likes to crash funerals. He meets Annie Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) at the funeral of a cancer kid. She lives with her mother Rachel and sister Elizabeth (Schuyler Fisk). Mabel Tell (Jane Adams) is Enoch's aunt and guardian. Annie and Enoch begin a relationship. She has cancer and only months to live. He has to process the losses that he has suffered.This is a slow contemplative movie from Gus Van Sant. The imaginary pilot feels a bit gimmicky. Henry Hopper does an able job as an odd introvert. Fisk has some good scenes. Mia continues to shine. I like everybody but there is no tension. The movie mopes around in yet another sick person romance.

I found this film alright like Im not gonna say its the best because it was weird and uncomfortable at the same time. Henry Hopper's character Enoch Brae likes to crash into peoples funerals who he rarely knows and it seems like he is an antisocial person. It was rude of him to back away from Mia Wasikowska's character Annabelle, she is just so like a friend that anyone could have! Then when the pair of them became a couple (finally!), they had arguments that I didn't understand the reasons why they happened to fall out but they did.It was sad to find out that Annabelle had a few months to live because of cancer and Enoch will be soon losing her. Although, in the end, I felt they didn't make a big deal of Annabelles death. No one was even crying or wearing black clothes which was really odd and disappointing. It just doesn't make any sense! I would suggest anyone watching this movie to be prepared for disappointment and weirdness!

It is pleasant to watch movies in which sad and tragic events are not depicted in a depressive and gray manner, and the characters are able to enjoy the current day. Restless is one of those movies, and despite the sad background, the viewers can follow different undertakings of the lead characters, their joys, worries and moods. The ending scene is settled in an interesting way as well.Henry Hopper as Enoch Brae and Mia Wasikowska as Annabel Cotton are good and credible; both of them could be used more in non-mainstream movies. Hiroshi Takahashi (Ryō Kase) is an interesting finding, providing additional dimension to this otherwise linear movie.The movie is definitely for you if you are not ultra-conservative and/or have fresh respective experiences. You have a possibility to enjoy something different and ponder whether your own life is as bad as it may often seem...

The movie in itself is an often viewed topic, but as they say... it doesn't matter that we had have seen the same topic over and over again, it's about how it is done. In my opinion the main characters were equally important and that gives a great balance. The soundtrack is beautiful and those scenes with little details are just perfect, although I didn't feel an authentic pain in the film and that excessive positivism made me mad almost the entire movie. The conflicts were pretty simple and the reactions were too complicated for the conflict. It's a good movie, above the average because it has those pretty details and that carefree puberty that is what is missing in other movies dealing with this topic and -Contradicting my first point of view- that excess if positive attitude made that those pretty details authentic and jovial.In my humble opinion.