Lack of good storyline.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The very best film/play I have seen since "12 Angry men". Have lofty ideas about the nature of existence, and how we should feel about it? Watch this.

I'm speechless, never been into movies like this. I mean I'm into comedy, action, adventure, suspense and mystery type of movies. This movie grabbed me from first minute. Use your imagination and pay attention, this movie is insane and one of the greatest and hardest acting I've seen. BRAVOOO my boy Samul the best as always. If you use your imagination this movie will be one of the greatest movies ever.

Liking or hating a movie can have many factors that lead a viewer to develop an opinion upon the whole, without paying attention to the subtle technical details; but finding a film such as TSL, with all its components, scenes and fading moments, a piece of collective brilliance, an ensemble of great writing, cinematography, directing and acting — it is extremely difficult to list the the reasons for how this film cuts deep into the soul of the human condition.I find myself searching in vain for the most proper way of reviewing such a film — a way that could capture the message of an artist par excellence like Mr. Mccarthy — but to review a film of this standard is to encapsulate a myriad of feelings and observations into one hopelessly unfair critique.One can view this movie as trying to show the incommensurability of two drastically incompatible world views. This is a reading that greatly undermines the depth of the film's theme, and shows a lack of insight that cannot even penetrate the outer skin of the onion like scheme of the film."Whatever Happened?" is the question that Peter Wessel Zappfe asked in his famous article The last Messiah; but the answer was obvious. It was "A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart."That life has not the meaning — the teleological sense that humans desperately crave — has been known from the times of the ancient Greeks, and echoed by clever artists through the centuries to our present day. The problem of existential nihilism had never any resemblance to other animal problems; this is because it is not a disease that is seen as having its origin in anything other than being human. And if a cure to human angst, to our the essence — the absurdity of the overdeveloped animal — can only be in death, it does not mean that there are no palliatives that can mask the problem.So, what will happen if anchoring oneself to a "foundational firmament" does not work anymore? "Depressions, excesses, and suicides result." But is going back a viable option? that is what the movie tries to answer. We cannot but anchor ourselves to something, be it a religion, or a cause, or the aspects of our own culture; for unleashing yourself from them will only lead to a horrific fall into the soul crushing abysm of being an intelligent animal in a not so intelligent world.

The stage-script adaptation of this movie was one of the only stage performances which lost me in the dialog/performance.. (in the Tivoloi Theater in Dublin, a number of years ago..) Usually stage scripts/performances leave me constantly trying to let go of the fact that acting people are standing in-front of me on-stage, acting their lines, but this was different. The actors were flawless, The content was sparse yet poignant... I left aghast! Now seeing this version featuring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones... I'm again mesmerized! Simply two men, in one room... great acting... Welll worth the watch! *****