Really Surprised!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Bill Murray's performance is worth the watching but the storyline is glacial and in parts improbable. Not fond of movies where the music tells you how you should be feeling (but really aren't!)

This was a very touching movie with a 'cute' 'funny' 'realistic' story, had me laughing and crying. I love Bill Murray and the boy, but I am sick of Melissa McCarthy. Honestly the only thing that stood in the way of the last star was her... if they cast someone, almost anyone else, it would have been a solid 10. Also, why does IMDb put a 'minimum length' requirement on movie reviews...

St. Vincent is a great movie. It's funny comedy but also has a surprising emotional depth. I've always liked Bill Murray and also here. To be fair he plays the same character he usually does, but he does it so well. He's the bitter sarcastic jerk but who deep down is a good person. St. Vincent has many funny moments and dare I say all of them come from Murray, close to all. But this movie I would describe as kind of a dark comedy or maybe even little tragic comedy. Because the drama is actually most gripping. There is much more depth in the story than I was expecting. In the end the movie is of the feel good genre and so there are some cheesy moments. But it's not a problem as the movie is still not too predictable or overly sentimental. Newcomer Jaeden Lieberher does great. The character we the viewer should feel most sympathy for and one does. Usually I'm not a huge fan of Melissa McCarthy but here she fits her character perfect. Nothing of her slapstick overacting which is what I associate her with. Mostly her character is serious and sad in a emotional way. Her funny moments come when she's playing of Bill Murray's grumpy old man with her own sarcasm. Of the main characters its Naomi Watts who brings the shortest straw. Her performance is alright even if I can't stop noticing the accent. It's just that her character is the least interesting and also feels like the least important. St. Vincent is a very good heartwarming movie. It has humour, a well written story, good actors and characters.

So this is how modern America see Saintliness. Yet another moronic entry into the wretched 'Bad Santa' genre. Yep folks commin' your way is a feel good, sweet and warm, movie about a slob, a boozy drunk, a bad language man (if you went into businesses or banks and spoke to employees like this bod you'd be arrested or shown the door!), among other things he's also a gambler, a cheap womanizer and tobacco abuser - what other kind of a bloke is there we can all look up to?. This seems to be about as close as it gets in too many movies these days. It's OK that we've seen it all before (there's very little new left to be found out there anyway...) but, it's not OK that it can't all be done a little better.There are some good scenes that creep into moments of this show (scenes with Murray's Dementia suffering wife for example). Otherwise it's unfortunately aimed squarely at those who can be kept happy with the sub generic vulgar type 'cuteness' that gets thrown at us too often nowadays. Maybe there's no need to improve scripts - seems they've managed to dumb down most audiences to the point they can still make money from junk anyway. While it's interesting to see him, our iconic Bill has done this role so many times he just walks through it all (by the numbers). Oh well, is it likable? - some will, some wont, I didn't....but, it does also have some sparse but likable bouncy original score music by Theodore Shapiro - that almost gets lost amongst the now expected, 'top-of-the-pop-hits' that make up so many promo type sound tracks today. Pity, would have enjoyed hearing better use of what was scored for the movie.