raul-71

Heartless is simply incomprehensible.

Although intriguing to begin with and supported by strong visuals, the narrative strays off from it's desire to be considered a British faustian fairy-tale and enters the realms of just not making sense. At times it's almost as if they movie we are watching is not actually the movie we are supposed to be seeing - all the narrative forward motion happens outside of the protagonists actions.

I am told that the director is a bit of a cult favorite but i really cannot understand why? Has someone recently changed the meaning of the word cult to crap?

In fact, i give up trying to find good in it... it's simply terrible.

A real stinker of a film. Shot over four years in eighteen countries... clearly someone's time could have been better spent. Visually the film is comparable to a painting, however take into account the film's lacklustre narrative and the film is more akin to watching paint dry.

Here we have a filmmaker who is has no interest in the purpose of film for storytelling; ironic since the film is intended to be a film about storytelling. I'd like to think that Tarsem has made The Fall a deliberately hollow piece of showboating in order to say something about the art form; but alas i think he was just out to massage his ego after the critical supernova that was The Cell.

Unfortunately the visuals do not drive the otherwise substandard Gilliam homage.

I implore you to avoid this title.

To say this movie is bad would be to simplify matters to the extreme and with the exception of Hell Ride's plot, nothing in this life is that simple.

So what's wrong with it exactly... Larry Bishop. The guy must have balls the size of two small dogs to think he could pull this off. Bikes, beer and booty makes for one great cocktail but bikes, beer, booty and bishop... not so good.

The story is interesting, the theme is great, the cast, characters and acting are over the top but welcome, hell, even the directing is good but Larry, why did you have to put yourself in it as the lead? Casting yourself as the lead is a step too far. This isn't going to get you any leading actor roles but will most certainly deem you to a life of character bit parts and walk ons. Larry successfully delivers some of the most ham-fisted dialogue in the most atrocious of displays of acting ever witnessed on celluloid. I can't even bring myself to disgust the batman-esq vocal shenanigans but it's poor.

I am beginning to meander almost as badly as this movie. So in a nutshell: Great cast, great concept, compelling direction, terrible, terrible lead acting.