You won't be disappointed!

hyped garbage

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Blistering performances.

At first sigh, a film for see only for actors. or for location. in fact, this is not the only motif. but the story. sure, simple, nice, full of flaws. but working. in nice manner. a film about choices. and, maybe, about art. about refuges. and about the way to define yourself and the others. not special. just beautiful. and that is enough for see it. for the not bad reflection of feelings, first.

It is without question the most unbelievably boring excuse for a film I've ever seen... It just keeps on going and going and going towards absolutely nowhere what so ever. I'm not gonna reveal as much as possible but I'll be tell you this much. Everything here is exactly as the description for the movie states. Teen wandering in to town and discovers art forging...TADAAA!!! THATS IT!! They just keep on dragging it out endlessly i an extremely pointless manner that'll literally be able to bore you to death. There is nothing happening here. When I saw the title I expected maybe something like magic or teen action or hell something!! BOY WAS I DISAPPOINTED!. I didn't read the description which I deeply regret but simple based my reason for watching this on the fact that it had an interesting name and a cool action looking poster. Epic fail in my face was what I got. There is no reason to watch this what so ever unless you enjoy the performance of the actors...thats it. You wont learn or simple take the tiniest thing away from this. It should have never been created. THis is a prime example of actors with too much time on their hands and not enough work, simply deciding to cash in on some piece of ...well... I usually don't have a problem with that since the movies of the past where typically watchable. THIS ONE IS NOT! It's so boring, so repetitive, so uninteresting, so pointless, so... without any reasonable concept justifying its very existence. Good god... This alleged writer should be so ashamed of himself. Its outrageously dull. It takes the meaning...the definition even of excruciatingly, mind blowingly, lazy stream lined dull story making to the next level. Stay away from this film. I haven't been specific on all that much of the content but thats because there isn't anything..as I said in the beginning. Teenager, homeless bum...town...art.. taking an interest....TADA!!! ooh yea and starting fights several times , freaking out and annoying everybody! Hutchersons character is profoundly annoying to follow. One of the most annoying and boring protagonists if you were to ask me. He has like the same immature, childish, brash type of behavior as Connor Kenway from Assassin's Creed 3 has and boy did I hate Connor. So cold, boring, pointless and SO NOT A HERO TYPE OF CHARACTER. He was more like an annoying side-kick that the audience can't wait for to die...thats hutchersons character here ..once again if you were to ask me. Filling in more of the blanks will result in a pointless and FAR too long walk-through of something without a freaking soul. Rios must have been on drugs or very drunk when writing this. No inspiration, innovation, imagination. It's a text-book build type of movie with some random main subject. Good guy...bad guy...conflict...helpers...objects... The plot I couldn't see through but thats because the film was literally making me fall asleep. This is my experience with this! my advice....STAY AWAY. STAY AWAY. If you like interesting movies this IS YOUR CRYPTONITE! Don't EXPOSE YOUR EYES OR YOUR MEMORY TO THIS GARBAGE. 2 out of 10. Its not the worst thing I've ever seen by far but it definitely makes it within the top 5 under the most boring and pointless section.Ultimate conclusion: Hazardous filthy horrible garbage excuse for a quality film that SO DOESN'T DESERVE A 5.1 that IS HELLBENT ON HURTING YOU! It will scar your mind with its badness! It will engrave its symbols of suckiness on every bit of your body! It will give you nightmares! THIS IS THE PLAGUE. BLACK DEATH FTW. stay the hell away. Don't you this to yourself and watch this dear viewer. Spare your eyes and your mind the pain. We saw this so that we could report to you what it really is SO THAT YOU Don't HAVE TO EXPERIENCE IT FOR YOURSELF.

I suppose, well, no, I know, that most of the reviews before mine are right about the many holes in the script, the flimsy dialog, the wrong casting for the main character (a twenty year old actor to represent a fifteen year old character) and several other flaws.But I enjoyed the movie from beginning to end.I just watched it as if it was a Walt Disney production, knowing that I couldn't expect more than what was offered and so, I wasn't as disappointed as the other reviewers that were waiting to see an Eric Rohmer's "My Night at Maud's".Well, sorry, There was only ONE Eric Rohmer, and he wasn't here. So, back to THIS movie: If you lower your expectations it isn't a bad movie to spend a couple of hours watching some very good actors practicing their trade in a gorgeous environment (Carmel) with some nice eye candy (Hayden Panettiere and Scott Eastwood) a very dignified Lauren Bacall and a born actor, Alfred Molina.In contrast to all the other critics, what really bothered me as the weakest point of the script was the unpolished way to represent the forgery of an old painting (too long to go into specifics) but just one enormous flaw: Molina was an expert forger and surely he should have known that no matter how much you clean an old canvas to erase the original painting, traces of that painting will be seen when looking through the new layer of paint with special equipment.Forget about all those weak points within the script and enjoy this movie as a very good piece of light entertainment.

I can understand scrapping the uninformative title CARMEL, and even the extended version CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, but the title THE FORGER fooled me. I expected a focus on the intricate labors of some fascinating criminals. I figured that if the movie is good enough to enlist Lauren Bacall and Alfred Molina, it's got to be good. In fact, though, not so much. The dialogue occasionally goes wooden with exposition or preachiness, Molina's accent isn't completely consistent, in places the characters' behavior isn't easily believable, and although a couple of interesting tricks of the trade are displayed, art forgery is made to look pretty easy, with first-time forgers capable of deceiving the experts. However, I'm criticizing the movie for not being what it wasn't shot to be. From the opening music, camera-work, and text font, you can easily tell that this is a movie meant to play on women's emotions. It's about an adorable homeless boy, an adorable well-groomed girl, an adorable old lady, and a series of misunderstandings that threaten to keep them apart, and as Spielberg has shown elsewhere, if plot offers a good dramatic structure it doesn't need to hang together logically.