Very best movie i ever watch

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Blistering performances.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The Forger is nowhere near as most critics make it out to be. It has a talented cast, solid pacing, a great family component and a classic Travolta performance. It will keep you hooked throughout. However, it's never surprising and doesn't break any new ground. (3/5)

At first sight, The Forger is a "heist movie" with all the traditional ingredients: the retired criminal who is obliged to make one last job; the picturesque parade of allies and enemies; and the tenacious policeman who suspects something, even though he has no concrete proofs of an illegal activity. And, of course, the unavoidable betrayals and obstacles which complicate the anti-hero's plan. However, The Forger prefers to employ the "big hit" as a mere ornament of the authentic story: the main character's redemption and the reunion with his family. That was a good idea: adding an emotional component in order to bring the criminal plot more dimension; or vice versa: enriching the family drama with brief moments of action and suspense. Unfortunately, the affair of the robbery feels listless and lacking of tension, while the family drama is so predictable and manipulative that it's difficult to share the feelings of the characters. As for John Travolta, I don't know what he did to his face; he truly looks like a wax figure. Anyway, he brings conviction and charisma to his role, while having a good chemistry with Christopher Plummer. As the policewoman tracking the forger, Abigail Spencer made her best, but her scenes are among the weakest ones of the film. I feel that The Forger would have been a much better film if it had fully engaged itself with any of its two facets: it could have been an interesting "heist movie", or an efficient drama about the reunion between a father and his son, supported by the irascible grandfather as the "comic relief". But, well... the union of those divergent plots didn't result on a boring experience... it's just not very satisfactory.

I took a quick look at the most recent user comments for this movie before typing this up, and it sure seems this film has divided people - people either love or hate it. I think that those viewers who didn't like the movie may have felt they were promised something different (a traditional caper movie) than what the movie actually is (a character study.) I admit that I thought I was going to get something closer to a caper movie, but I didn't mind at all what I actually got. The movie is pretty well done for what it is. There is some good acting here, for one thing. While Travolta (who has a weird looking toupee and facial hair) is just adequate, Plummer gives spark to his scenes, and the youthful Tye Sheridan does very well at all, making his teenage character interesting and vulnerable instead of obnoxious. It's primarily the script that makes their characters and the others not boring. I actually got interested in these people, and I didn't have any idea as to how they would end up until the end of the movie. I will admit that the movie is somewhat slow a lot of the time, and could have used a bit more excitement here and there (the art theft scene is surprisingly short). But in the end, I thought the movie was okay. Just don't see it if you are in the mood for action/adventure or a traditional caper movie, that is.

What might have been an okay movie turned out to be ridiculous from the very start…and didn't stop there. John Travolta, having a terribly bad hair day, is in prison. We have no idea why. He wants out. His lawyer says his appeal has been denied, and advises him to stick out his remaining 10 months. Ten months isn't so long. We have no idea why he simply has to get out, but he does. He gets a mobster to bribe a judge to get him an early release. Of course the mobster expects to be repaid. Turns out, to our utter surprise, Mr. Travolta is a expert art forger, perhaps one of the very best. And by an incredible coincidence, the mobster wants him to make a copy of a Monet that is on display in a local museum so they can make a switch. He has a filthy-rich client who wants the Monet for his private collection. Of course, they could simply steal the painting. It would create an uproar, but who cares? However, they want Mr. Travolta to create a fake. Okay, maybe that buys them some time, but he could paint a reasonable facsimile that would pass casual inspection long enough for the theft to be history, but no, he has to find a canvas of the same size and same age, and clean it off and then create oils in exactly the way Monet would have done, and in the end, create a masterpiece that is indistinguishable from the original. Why bother? I briefly thought maybe, in a plot twist, he would sell the fake to the buyer who would never be the wiser, but no. In any event, as Mr. Travolta points out, there's no way he can do all this in two weeks. But, it's life and death. So although he has to do this impossible task in a couple of weeks, he appears to have plenty of time to fool around before he even gets started. Then, somewhere in there, we can assume the reason he wanted out early is because his son has terminal cancer. By then, we're past believing anything that's going on, and overall, the storyline is so plodding and lacking in interest that we've pretty much lost interest. At the very end, the rich buyer, rather than pay half a million dollars to the mobster, has him killed and gratefully hands the half million over to an "art appraiser" whose expertise is based upon presentation of a business card. With the half million in hand, everybody goes to Tahiti where most of them live ever after, save for the poor boy with cancer who we are given to understand is going fast. This could have been a pretty good story without the enormous plot holes and confused directing.