Baieti Destepti

"Wise Guys" falls short on every front imaginable. From abysmal acting to a lackluster storyline, it fails to engage viewers in any meaningful way. The characters lack depth, the dialogue feels forced, and the plot meanders aimlessly, leaving audiences bewildered and disappointed. Instead of subjecting yourself to this cinematic disaster, opt for the mindless yet entertaining distraction of scrolling through TikTok for 1.5 hours. Trust me, it'll be a more worthwhile use of your time. "Wise Guys" is a cinematic disaster with shallow characters, forced dialogue, and a meandering plot. Avoid at all costs.

A truly badly scripted, acted, and directed movie. Foreign audiences might not catch the bad and utterly false acting but trust me, it is really awful.

While I am not an avid fan of all of the more famous directors of the so-called New Romanian Cinema (Porumboiu, Puiu, Mungiu), at least these guys know how to pick a good script, good actors, and how to direct a movie.

This is not the case of this director, Igor Cobileanski. I cannot help but wonder who was so stupid to finance it. If it was financed from state funds -- which happens in the case of some films here -- then the jury that decided to finance this movie should be fired. Avoid this movie at all costs!

After seeing a slew of dumb Romanian movies, you might hope for something smarter. And maybe you'll fall for this title. But you quickly realize you're dealing with an even bigger stupidity. This director, Cobileanski, who showed promise with "Afacerea Est", now delivers a colossal, mindless mess.

The so-called "comedy" features the dumbest humor, akin to the primitive flip-flop kind seen in Asian viral videos on Facebook. Moments where a gut-wrenchingly painful blow to the groin is supposed to be hilariously funny. You could even say this film insults the Gypsy community, for whom it was supposedly made. Almost all the actors are Gypsy, perhaps including the aged Melinte, who plays a ridiculously "zen" character.

Nothing in this film relates to reality or common sense: a psychotic cop shoots a printer in a fit of rage, another goes to confront bandits armed with a slingshot... And other ideas so stupidly naive, they seem imagined by a seventh-grader who isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. The fight scenes are choreographed in a stunningly idiotic manner.

The most cringe-worthy character is played by a plastic doll with neon teeth, going by the name Ruby Maneloasa. A deep disgust accompanies you throughout the film, but you're guaranteed to vomit during the scene where a policeman releases himself in the most vulgar, thuggish behavior imaginable.

This film is a must-watch, even if only in fragments depending on your stomach, to understand the "thinking" of wretched and retarded generations.

I was excited for another romanian movie this autumn, but my expectations felt after 1 minute. Bad acting, sound mistakes, fight scenes mistakes, wrong cars for the story (what cop drives a new X6 in the world?), wrong wrong wrong.

In the last 30 minutes we started laughing in the cinema because how bad it is.

What can i say more. Just dont go to this movie. I feel bad for the few good actors, Sergiu and others, who tried their best, but Rubi and the main cop were awful. Also how can you hear that the a dialogue line was spelled wrong and dont try to correct it, how much time did it take to record again a 15 words sentence?

I'm not saying it was an exceptional action movie, but it was interesting and I don't think it deserves a grade lower than 5.3.

The action was suitable for an action movie, there were no banal scenes or scenes that would leave you with a bitter taste in your mouth. The action was fluent and the characters were well characterized, through the sly or dangerous style, but identifiable to each individual.

The film kept me hooked and I gave it the minimum mark that I think this film deserves. The idea behind the film is very simple and the way they implemented it was just as simple, convenient and solid.

Imagine that you are watching a film in which the main protagonist is one, but he has three other small protagonists next to him, who, in their turn, each have a little story of their own, throughout the film, and these little stories, plus the story of the main protagonist.. they converge at the end of the film, towards a scene that is in unison with the rest of the script from the last hour and almost thirty minutes.

It's that good.