A Common Man

Poorly done movie even for low budget. Not sure when I've seen such badly done movie last time. The story is so predictable, and easy to find out the ending after 30 mins of movie. Bad acting, really bad. Music is totally out out and not fit into movie at all. Scenario is all wrongly written. Not sure if this movie has an director at all but I would see this as an school project movie and not profi done. Don't have much more to write and I'm so surprise I have watched it to the end. I would say that this movie is even not good enough for TV. Im not sure if it makes it onto the screens but hope no as it would be a waste of money for tickets. Don't waste your time

"A.Wednesday(2008), the Hindi Crime and revenge movie was seriously produced with a great original screenplay, good directing supported with first rate actors, the editing was also good, and of course, the sound track dutifully accommodated to the situations changed and twisted with great collaboration. the whole storyline really grabbed you and never let you go to the end. that old guy would never cast any doubtful impression to anyone, because he really looked and behaved like a common citizen in any big city that walked around you but you never paid any attention to him. yet in this pathetic film, they signed up Mr. Ben Kingsley to play that devil's advocate and avenging angel (or should i say, the avenging devil?). of course, Mr. Kingsley is a great actor who did so many great jobs in so many good films, but hiring this iconic actor to play that role was absolutely inappropriate! he got a satanic face with such a vicious features and such a prominent hooked nose, he is the extreme opposite person who we would call him common. anybody sees him would inevitably remember him. his unique satanic face has turned into even worse as he grows older. i don't know why Sri Lanka movie people would have adapted a 2008 Hindi film and reproduced it. by hiring two well known international actors, Ben Kingsley and Ben cross, two English actors would never make it better if the screenplay and other supporting actors were so weak and so bad. unlike "the next three days" adapted and remade from the original french film, 'anything for her', the remake never ruined the original copy but also turned it into another absolutely watchable thriller. but this 'a common man', on the contrary, completely ruin the 2008 original 'a Wednesday'. why they made this movie? did they think nobody would know what they poorly copied and ruined a great film after six years gap? this film should never have gotten a nod from their investors, as always, stupidity never failed to amaze me. my rating of this movie is not 0, but 0 minus 10. an absolute piece of crap.

Any movie with Ben Kingsley surely cant be as bad as reviews here said. Really, I love this guy. But after seeing "a common man", I stand corrected. Its even worse. The script is ridiculous, the dialog so bad its almost hilarious, the music is painfully bad, the acting absolute rubbish. I hate to say it, but even Kingsley is anything but impressive in this movie.

Throughout the movie I kept thinking there has to be a back-story to this. How did this thing ever get made and why oh why did Kingsley ever sign up for it?

I got to write a few more lines before I can submit this. But I have nothing else to say. Don't waste your time on this.

This movie was so terrible that I was so surprised that how could it turn out to be, with an actor like Ben. But then I realized that the whole production team and the cast was just horrible, so there's no surprise that it was an epic failure.

Made me wonder whether they did have a casting session before selecting the cast or at least even read the script twice! Why didn't they go for Sri Lankan actors? Instead, they had to go for people who called themselves actors, only god knows from where they were picked up from.

Major blow to Sri Lanka and as a Sri Lankan, I am quite crossed about making this movie. I hope people will not think bad about Sri Lankan movies, because we produce many good movies which goes and wins foreign movie festival awards. But among them, here this is, smearing mud on our faces.

Absolutely horrible. Cannot give 0. So I'm giving 1 out of 10.

This movie could have been good.

I loved Ben Kingsley in it. He was the only person who acted.

At first I thought the actors were actually trying to look stilted and awkward and were purposely trying to deliver their lines in that horrible manner. It felt like they were literally reading their lines from the script....

I soon learned, no, they were just all bad actors... apart from Ben K that is...

Very disappointing.

The story itself was great though.

This could have been a much better movie.