Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

A Disappointing Continuation

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The East (2013) is a great film filled with great actors and actresses with a story-line that needs a whole lot more exposure. The East shows a little bit of both sides of the argument versus how the real world news makes everyone out there that is trying to correct or fix something the bad people while the bad in this world run it all.The East shows how they're good and bad people in everything, those that stand up for the right things yet in a group with some who have the wrong intentions; whilst at the same time the media showing these groups to be harmful while covering up for the companies who are causing the issues to have such groups. The East shows how the biggest concern with stopping groups like this is only to financially gain from it as everything in this world revolves around. The East is a great movie and everyone needs to see it.

The East seems to be a very interesting political thriller. But I was disappointed. The East is rather a boring and long-winded thriller. The plot progress quite slow, and there is not really a feeling of culmination for the group (The East) we are following. We are following a FBI agent, who is infiltrating this environment activist group, The East. And already in the beginning of the movie, we learn that the reason the female FBI-agent have to infiltrate the group, is quite stupid. She is not really a FBI-agent. More like, well, you will se in the movie...And the ending, well, it offers a quite dull plot-twist, and it is a quite a anti-climax.And of course we have to see the generic kiss-hug-and-sex-scenes for the I don't know gazillion time, which we have seen in numerous Hollywood-movies before. The only new here, is a couple of gay-kisses.

This movie starts off in a way that grabs you in. The movie is about a former FBI agent who takes a job as a corporate counter-espionage person. She is asked to infiltrate an anarchist group who plans attacks on corporate executives. Interesting premise and the corporate wrongdoing in the movie is based on real events.I find that movies are at their best when they provide a window into a world that most are clueless of. I felt the movie did a good job of doing that in an at times fascinating, visually stunning way. The story was good and the main character played her role very well. SHe was tough, smart, willing to take risks, and you liked her and rooted for her.I think they did a good job of showing her internal struggle and posed some interesting questions about what morality means for people on all sides of the issue. The ending was a little too cutesy for me and I think the final twist of the movie weren't wholly believable to me. That said, its thought provoking, well acted, with an original premise and its definitely worth seeing. This is the type of film that could've been great with a bigger budget. Hollywood should be trying to fund these kinds of films.

As a big fan of Sound of my Voice, I'm interested in this director. The reviews for this really made it seem like a really by-the-numbers, formulaic, but decent spy thriller. It's definitely following a formula, but it's not as thin as the reviews made it out to be. It's not Sound of my Voice, by virtue of it just not being as interesting thematically and plot-wise as that film, and not as atmospheric and all around more creepy in its vibe. But it's better than the Hollywood dreck that we'd be sure to see, so in that regard it succeeds. Brit Marling is very good, as usual and unsurprisingly. I recommend this, yeah, and hope the director continues to make interesting, well-rounded films