What a waste of my time!!!

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Jake Paltrow's 'The Good Night' tells an interesting story revolving around dreams. I liked the creativity that was used in this movie and the concept behind the story. What if life has become so dull and sad that one prefers living in their dream through lucid dreaming? The storytelling is pretty tricky as it hints and suggests without exactly revealing until the very end. In between the main story, the film jumps into interview scenes with Gary's friend, ex-girlfriend and ex-bandmember talk about him. The dream sequences are very well executed. I liked how Penelope Cruz's voice was modified to suit Ana (who is a figment of Gary's dream). The screenplay is solid. Martin Freeman does a superb job. Simon Pegg is first rate. Penelope Cruz is wonderfully sensual. Gwyneth Paltrow does a fine job and Danny De Vito is terrific. Music is an important component of the film and 'The Good Night' is provided a brilliant score. This is a unique little film that had me engaged throughout its running time and I may pay a revisit sometime later.

I really like this film, OK it didn't quite have the plot 100% perfect and it got a little mucky. But I think that is good, because it had an interesting concept and it delivered on that concept enough to make me sit down after the credits started rolling and have a real think about it. That's what I look for in a movie and this one delivered.The movies main message is a man with a sad boring life going through a mid life crisis, trying to find an escape. He finds it in his dreams, now this is where the film gets me, because although I'm not depressed I too on many occasions I wish that I could go into a perfect world and never wake up. Now he must decide which one he wants, a real life or a dream world, this is where it gets a bit cliché but nothing you can't handle. Definatily a rental.

It's a real bummer when you see the potential in a cast but the script doesn't live up to their abilities. The directing is adept, the camera-work is nice but ultimately I don't get anything out of this film. You have a character who escapes from his naggy one dimensional girlfriend to a model in some billboard prancing around on a beach. If we are going to get into why dreams are cool please spare us the old cliché of some hot chick on a beach. Clichés or not the biggest crime of the film is that it has no point. I am not invested int he flimsy characters and I don't buy the story. It's a true feat when we spend half of a film inside a character's head and learn almost nothing about him. Paltrow needs a lesson from Fellini, Bunuel and some others who know how to make a dream interesting...

I'm a major Charlie Kaufman fan, enough so that I am willing to see other filmmakers lightly tread the territory he has mastered while waiting for his next masterpiece. Zach Helms' script for Stranger Than Fiction (8/10) is the rom-com answer to the theme of art and reality being interchangeable, as expressed also in Adaptation (9/10). Jake Paltrow's The Good Night is an indie-dramedy look at the subconscious vs. reality theme CK nails in Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine (both 10/10). This film tells the story of Gary (Martin Freeman), a 30 something ex-rocker scoring commercials in New York. His stagnant relationship with an art-dealer girlfriend (Gwynneth Paltrow) and his complicated, brotherly friendship with an egotistical ex-bandmate and boss (Simon Pegg) give him little fulfillment. So he turns to a lucid dreams with an exotic dream girl (Penelope Cruz). But when both the dreams and his real life seem to unravel, he struggles to fix both.The story is certainly not innovative, but it is well-developed, and the characters are interesting enough. The movie feels very authentic and sincere, which makes it worth sitting through. Jake Paltrow is not a particularly inventive director, but the camera-work is generally competent and the dream sequences are nicely photographed.The real highlights of the film are the subtle supporting performances by director's sister Gwen and the brilliant Simon Pegg. Freeman's role is pretty typical of his other work, but he carries the movie reasonably well. Devito and Cruz are both dull and distracting in their roles. It would have been better if their parts had been given to lesser-known actors who would have cared more about the production.A rental of this movie is certainly worth 90 minutes of your evening.