Really Surprised!

Good idea lost in the noise

A Disappointing Continuation

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

"The voices" is a tremendous movie based upon a man suffering from psychological disease and loneliness throughout his whole life, and how his disease(hearing voices from nonspeaking organisms and objects) and loneliness leads him to on a road of psychopath killing. Ryan Reynolds amazed everyone by his performance. In one word tremendous movie.

The Voices is an expertly crafted film with a powerhouse performance by Ryan Reynolds and a great balance between good and evil, depression and happiness, and comedy and thriller. I love when he takes the pills for the first time and sees things the way they really are even though he and the audience only saw the ideal picture keeping the gore to a minimum until we see what other people see. And how the happy moments for the character actually seem happy and the depressing moments are just sad. Please watch this film for a morbidly funny, creative, and well acted time. But note that it's not for the people who can't take extreme depression and violence in their movies. 10/10

I love everything about this movie and it's exactly my type of movie. It's funny without making you laugh all the time, more just delighted by what you're watching. It's scary in the right moments, absurd in the right moments, sad in the right moments. I loved the tone of the film, it's almost like it could sometimes be a musical, but it isn't (except for the credits scene), it's almost a thriller, but it's comedic enough to not get quite there, it's got a really interesting psychological premise, it makes you feel for the character of Jerry even when he's doing horrible things. You feel bad that he's doing those things but almost not really for the victim but for him because you know what doing those things is doing to him as well. This just really hit all the buttons I like in a movie like this. I'm extremely impressed with all the voices Ryan does (I didn't realize it was him because it truly sounds nothing like him at all). Ryan did fantastic in this movie, he was awkward, charming, funny, embarrassing, scary, intense, sad, etc. he did it all and did it very well. The director did a fantastic job with the whole thing, I really also liked the scene where our perception of the world shifts with Jerry's and we see the horror he's really living. It was definitely unique to me and I liked that insight going forward for the rest of the movie. It also makes you question his perception of the fact that his kills were "accidents" - was that true or is that how he's able to justify himself? Great movie, I continually watch it, and I completely recommend it to everyone. So good!!

I love a good dark comedy and so I was on board when I read the premise of Ryan Reynolds talking to his cat and dog about whether or not to be a serial killer. The premise works best as a dark comedy but the movie gets really depressing as it goes a lot into the character's actual suffering with schizophrenia. It becomes at different times a drama, a grisly horror film, and a cartoony surreal fantasy. I don't know. This is a really hard sell. I guess I can appreciate it's honesty in actually acknowledging schizophrenia and mental health problems but then they've sort of shot themselves in the foot as it cannot work then as a dark comedy. I don't want to laugh at schizophrenic hallucinations being portrayed as a cartoon in one scene and then seeing Reynolds with his therapist in agony in another. I think what the film should have done is start off with the comedic effect and then have it wear off as it goes into the seriousness of the situation. It doesn't. The film ends with a big dance number where Reynolds dances with Jesus and his victims.