Joe

I forced myself to finish this movie based on the great performance by Tye Sheridan but the movie seemed disjointed. Almost as if the gems to make sense of this movie ended up on the cutting room floor. I actually had to turn off the movie and come back 3 days later to finish it. Overall it was very disappointing and i felt lost through the movie. I gather that the overall message of the movie are anger, poverty and alcoholism; however it felt like being on a ride on one of those rubber balls you buy in the vending machine at the supermarket that just bounces from one wall to another until it runs out of steam and falls to the ground without ever really made it anywhere.

This movie, apart from going nowhere, fails on so many levels that it is almost as if the movie was meant as a comedy not a drama. Cages performance is nothing short of terrible and fails to convince or add any real depth to the character, his rivals in the film i.e. the police and the scar faced man not only lack any true malice, but the backstory is never given enough light and Cage simply ends up looking like an idiot that reacts to almost every situation he is faced with in an irrational manner (even for a man with a hair trigger temper). He just looks like a lunatic half the time and as such you simply cant relate to what hes doing. For me the movie spends too much time taking slow arty shots of meaningless scenes and far too little time fleshing out the characters. A misdirected film and another lunatic performance for cage to add to his mantle alongside wicker man. Even making it to the end of the movie without hitting the off button is a struggle.

This has been a very long time since Nicolas Cage gave us a good feature ; since LORD OF WAR and, some years before: LEAVING LAS VEGAS. Besides these two features, he only made garbage stuff. He deserves much better that these craps he was involved in. I still can't explain why he made such choices, it can't be only for the dol. Anyway this film is exactly what I expected from him. He should have made this sort of character since many years now. Why has he waited so long? We Watch here a deep study of the rural countryside of the deep America. Great performances help to enhance this amazing story of a friendship between an ex con and a Young man in his teens. Some poignant sequences for a dark tale, whilst not being depressing. A true gem.

I rented this recently, we watched about an hour of it and with the senseless violence, swearing, and meaningless sex, had to turn it off. We are both adults, but this was pure garbage, without a plot. If you find one, good luck. I do not have a lot more to say so disregard these last few words. I need 10 lines of text here, so here goes, Have you ever reviewed a movie with one word, like AWESOME, or SUCKED ? That should be allowed, simple enough, instead of a spoiler, just tell it like it is. Was it a boring piece of junk, or were you on the edge of your seat the whole 4 hours or whatever? I like a good variety, but really not sure about some of the films like Joe, or August: Osage County. Sure people are dysfunctional, but much of this does not need to be filmed.