Mohsen-Qassemi

One of the most unrelentingly dark, albeit nonsensical, purposeless, hollow films I've ever seen in my life! It's suffocating to watch, unbelievably brutal to fathom, unrealistically inhumane. The generous 4 stars I gave it was for its visual effects and makeup.

What was the point of the film after all? The love of a mother for her child is a sacred thing and to be cherished, but does it justify any heinous act? Imagine if Hitler's mom would know her son would in future engulf the whole world in flames, would she still do every moral or even immoral act to save him if his life was endangered when he was a childe? Yes, if she had been a woman like Edh! The least likeable character in the film.

I just summarized and criticized it as concisely as I could: pure bul-sh-i-t! What a waste of time! Ok I need to write at least 150 characters: pure bull-sh-i-t pure bul-sh-it pure bul-sh-it.

It is worth watching, but it is not really well made. The screenplay is very good, but bad acting and editing ruin everything. Jodie Foster's performance is hit and miss. Sometimes she delivers her dialogues impeccably, but sometimes like a novice acting hopeful who gets rejected in her first audition, and parts of that audition are in this film! In some scenes, it's obvious that she has just memorized the dialogues; she doesn't put much effort into them. Worse than Foster is McGillis! With her performance, she manages to make the film a surrealistic one! She's to blame for the opaqueness of the whole film. The film feels so hazy, vague, dreamlike, all thanks to McGillis' simply bad acting. It is as if she doesn't understand her own lines, and that is why she can't provide a clear, perceptible performance.

What a waste of a good subject and screenplay.