Charlie Countryman

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Charlie Countryman (Shia LaBeouf) is an aimless young man. His mother (Melissa Leo) dies and her spirit tells him to go to Bucharest to live his life. On the plane there, an old man next to him dies. He meets the old man's beautiful daughter Gabi (Evan Rachel Wood). He falls for her despite her dark jealous violent husband Nigel (Mads Mikkelsen). Shia looks like a drugged out homeless guy. I don't get it, but some find it sexy. I wish he would clean up a bit. Then there is Evan Rachel Wood's eastern European accent. It is extremely distracting. I rather have a Romanian actress who speaks broken English. Luckily there is Mads. I love his menacing demeanor. He is scary just by looking at you. The movie depends a lot on Shia and Evan. I didn't like either of them in this. Between Shia's disheveled look and Evan's annoying accent, I couldn't get into this pairing. And the stuff with the ruffians isn't that interesting. The only funny joke is told by the ambulance driver in Romanian. It's a mess of unlikeable characters that I didn't care much about.

This movie is just boring. Probably that was a sort of Romania Travel board advertising movie but i'm not sure. Scenario jumps from travel promo to love drama and then to something else like unstoppable and broken roller-coaster. The only one thing kept me watching was LaBeouf, he's definitely a really good actor. Anyway, his acting doesn't save "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman". This movie reminds me a "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" in some ways but if Mitty tries to be a sort of didactic movie full of banality, Charly Countryman doesn't try to be anything except a pointless movie with bunch of good actors. It's worth watching if you're a fan of slow-paced movies with no plot, i simply didn't like this one.

As I found out along the way, the only movies which can depict a country are the ones made in that country, but the Americans could have done their homework... at least. We, Romanians, have better English accents and know English better than some of the English speakers, so EPIC FAIL on that. Secondly Bucharest is an interesting place, a kind of love and hate, organic city and the movie caught none of that. EPIC FAIL no.2. The role of a Romanian should be played by a Romanian. I like Rachel Wood, but she seriously didn't study any of our culture. E.F.3. Overall the movie didn't create any kind of atmosphere for me, disregarding the rest of the points above. The acting was not very good and the story lacks continuity and it's not even close to believable. Good luck on watching yet another movie....