changeling

hexagramer

fantastic. ****en great! i loved it and it got me researching the story online.

very long, with an ending that kinda wasnt TOO sad as i expected. few disguisting parts and a few things missing but thats understandable,

giv us ur thoughts!

evad_lhorg

I found it to be very boring and a real downer tbh.

hexagramer

yeah your right....no mcbain to be found unfortunatley,

it was set on a real true story too

Pigman II

It's decent entertaintment but the characters (apart from Jolie/Ms.Collins) all come off as very 2-dimensional and irrelevant, almost as tho every word they speak is just to jam as many of the facts of the case in there. The end section is particularily disappointing as the movie seems to fall apart under the weight of its own smugness in a ReturnOfTheKing-esque medley of non-endings.

Solid 6/10.

MisterAnarchy

Its a typical Eastwood film,slow,workmanlike ,and extremely drawn out.

mike65

Have not seen it but I'll always cut Eastweood slack cos he picks material/themes that
pretty much no younger mainstream director would even think of never mind make.

MooseJam

I thought this was good, characters were a bit too black v white though

Baybay

I quite liked the film although neither Jolie nor Eastwood would be very high on my must see list. However, I felt that it would have benefitted from tighter editing. It wasn't that it was boring by being longer just a little on the pointless side.

Decuc500

I really liked it. I didn't know anything about the story before I saw the film so it kind of shocked and saddened me the way this woman was treated by the LAPD.

I thought the film looked stunning and really brought 1920's LA to life. Angelina Jolie was great in it. Not showy at all like a lot of Oscar winning performances usually are.

It was easily one of the best films of the year which surprises me because I haven't been a fan of a lot of Eastwood's recent overly sentimental movies.

damselnat

Thought it was OK, Jolie's performance good though the script doesn't actually allow her be anything but one dimensional, some critics are tipping her for an Oscar, I would be very surprised (and rather disappointed) if she did, not because there was any flaw in her performance but precisely because the character was so flat and allowed for no range of emotions...
Thought the supporting performances were very good, particularly liked the cop that the child confesses to (does anyone know that actor's name btw?) and the murderer guy creeped me out. In all I thought the film was very flat and dragged out, not enough time spent developing the characters at the start so I felt no sympathy or empathy for them whatsoever...looks good though, highly applaud the cinematography.
Would recommend Gone Baby Gone over this, however, if that's the kind of theme you're looking for, lower brow perhaps but far more entertaining, better characters, Casey Affleck really surprised me I must say

damselnat

damselnat wrote: »

Thought the supporting performances were very good, particularly liked the cop that the child confesses to (does anyone know that actor's name btw?)

That was the great Michael Kelly. He was in Generation Kill, Dawn of the Dead remake and a number of other great films and shows.

damselnat

Deleted User wrote: »

That was the great Michael Kelly. He was in Generation Kill, Dawn of the Dead remake and a number of other great films and shows.

cheers! knew he looked familiar...

thermo66

Angie sucked in it.

Cazlou

I saw it last week, thought it was a powerful film but seemed to drag on for too long. When I thought about it, it was only about 2.5 hours if even - it seemed way longer! I hadn't a notion of the story beforehand so I did find it interesting, but like a previous poster said - the lack of detail to their relationship meant you weren't as bothered about the child as you could have been. But maybe that's just me..:p