Séduit par le casting (Anthony Hopkins,Rachel Weisz,Jude Law) Pas pu aller au bout
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How could Hopkins, Law, Weisz do this??!
Author: michal_ordogh from Slovakia
23 July 2012
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You fall under impression that you are watching 2 movies cut into one of terribly uneven quality.I can not express how shocked I was, hearing Slovak (not Slovakian-as you hear in the movie) language. Two Slovak girls,with NO ACTING skill, one of which used to host a TOP10 on national TV is now showing her breasts and works to empower a myth that all Central European girls are whores.The sidekick girl,her "mission" in the movie remains a mystery. ONE BIG BIG FAILURE: you can predict everything in this movie. A cured rapist will not have sex, 'cos he is cured, a Slovak whore will try to rob,a going-to-be-unfaithful husband will change his mind, a Muslim in love with his Russian assistant fires her to resolve his personal issue. Conclusion: bad image of my country supported, two movies cut into one, all PREDICTABLE. Avoid this movie!!!
13 out of 22 people found the following review useful:
Blah Movie has some good performances--but absolutely nothing to tie any of them together
Author: Matthew Stechel (mateob25@aol.com) from United States
23 August 2012
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Interconnected story lines of various people's lives criss-crossing across the globe film in the vein of Babel--doesn't have much to either recommend or even keep you watching once you're a good half hour or so in it. I kind of liked Anthony Hopkins' performance and i kind of thought Ben Foster's storyline was interesting--at least at first since it doesn't really go anywhere after the big reveal of his character---i kind of liked the ending with the big hearted Russian guy and the younger sister of the exploited call girl coming together with their story lines (does that count as a spoiler? i'm honestly not sure because i'm not sure anything that happens in this movie could be called a spoiler since a spoiler would imply that something happens towards the end of the movie that affects the outcome of the story---and that's really not the case with anything that happens in this movie) I wanted to like Jude Law--indeed i thought the first scene with him was setting up a potentially interesting storyline but then he all but disappears throughout the majority of the film only coming back at the tail end to give the illusion of coming full circle. This film doesn't seem to have much of a point unless you count the very vague notion that we're all people living on this planet and we're all worthy of happiness even if we're not entirely sure that we are worthy of it---i suppose that could work as a synopsis for a film but its about as vague as anything else that i managed to take away in the two hours of watching this movie unravel. It is i will admit well shot--and rather pretty to look at for the most part---a lot of the tracking shots are well done and the score is pretty good. I just wish there had been something or some point that could've tied this entire thing into a whole--it was really just an accumulation of scenes that don't quite build on top of each other the way i imagine the writer and director thought they would. In short its kind of a blah movie--and very much a rather large disappointment from the director of City of God, The Constant Gardner, and Blindness.
3 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
so what else is new?
Author: Solange Barakat from Crete- Greece
3 November 2012
I love social movies, but unfortunately this one was Boring, slow and without any exciting twists in the story. Antony Hopkins' monologue at the AA meeting is the best part of the movie as far as I'm concerned , because you know he will never disappoint you, but other than that ,it really isn't a movie that will enrich you in some way, it is a waste of time really.I also disliked the music, it was poorly chosen and made the movie look even worse. All that made me skip quickly to the end because I wanted to stop watching it, that's how boring it was. I was disappointed because I thought that actors such as Jude Law and Hopkins would eventually offer some excitement in the movie,but mainly, it tells common stories of our daily lives, so..what else is new?
7 out of 15 people found the following review useful:
Forgettable
Author: Rubens Junior from Brazil
1 August 2012
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360 is a movie about a huge international cast (and wasted as well) playing characters that are connected by a fact in common: the difficulties to decide which may be the right decision to take.
I guess that this is the worst movie by Fernando Meirelles and also the worst one to use this kind of 'hyperlinked' narrative. It is exactly as the title says, a turn for nothing. The movie ends the way it starts, and this is not even a spoiler because you will guess it in the very first minute, the same way that you will find out the premise of entire movie when is said that if you find a bifurcation in life, you do get it, but you will have to find out the right direction to take. But the movie doesn't use this idea so well and instead of being a very reliable and confident point of view about life and decisions, it's just another movie most about love and betrayal and some times (a very few times) about other difficulties.
It's not a thriller as it may seems, it's just a drama and a tedious one for sure. The acting is fine, the edition is quite good, and Meirelles's direction is effective, but ordinary. The best thing about Meirelles is the way he uses the camera angles to pick up right moments and that is always a great thing to observe, but the movie lacks of depth and soul. One thing that is very interesting is the fact that seems that all characters are faded and used to their conditions in a ordinary simple and miserable life, but you never get close enough to any of them because every story is told like a chronicle and not as relevant example. Everything is superficial and the movie never involves and brings you into it. Maybe that was the intention, but that distance doesn't work here.
It follows and uses the same characteristics of movies like Magnolia (1999), Crash (2004) and Heights (2005), just some examples as the list of Short Cuts-alike is huge and a now a sad cliché.
Maybe the main problem of entire movie is its huge number of characters and their bad developed stories which makes you never get an entire one or a whole idea.
A forgettable one.
16 out of 43 people found the following review useful:
The Movie Does Live Up to its Name; 360
Author: samlapidus from Toronto
12 September 2011
I saw this movie at is premier gala event at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The movie has good character development but the downside is that the beginning of the film is slow due to the nature that the characters are built. This is a movie about connections between people. As further connections are presented to the viewer the movie moves along at a faster pace. The cast most certainly brings strength to the film as does the locations in which filming took place. Unfortunately this is one of those pieces that you know worked best on paper. If you are a fan of the cast or the type of development that occurred in the movie Crash, you will like this work. The movie does live up to its name; 360.
11 out of 21 people found the following review useful:
Great and amazing cast. Slow moving and kinda boring movie. Good writing and acting but movie isn't all that good. I say C+
Author: Tony Heck (cosmo_tiger@hotmail.com) from United States
24 September 2012
"A wise man once said if there's a fork in the road take it." This is a movie that deals with many different characters from different parts of the world from different social classes and how they deal with day to day problems from doing anything to earn money to getting stranded while traveling. The cast in this, which includes: Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins and Ben Foster is great and honestly the cast is the best part of the movie. I used to think that a great cast automatically means that it will be a great movie, but after the last 4 or 5 movies I have seen based off the cast I am beginning to rethink my opinion. The acting is great in this and the story lines basically end up being tied together I guess but the movie is just so slow moving that it makes it really hard to stay interested in. The movie is pretty OK but for me this is another example of a great cast in a sub-par movie. Overall, very slow moving drama that is really only worth seeing because of the cast. I give it a C+.
The many good elements don't combine to make a good movie
Author: highwaytourist from United States
21 June 2014
When one sees all the talent that came together, you'd expect a really good movie. There is a premise with much promise, which was written by acclaimed British screenwriter Peter Morgan, directed by respected director Fernando Meirelles, and features some top acting talent from around the world, notably Anthony Hopkins. It's beautifully photographed in various parts of the world. So why didn't it work? Mainly because no one was given anything interesting to say or do. It's one of those connections movies with an ensemble cast, which had been done so effectively in movies like "Short Cuts" and "Magnolia", and it's hard to say how disappointing this film was. It wasn't a terrible movie, but it's so shallow, uneventful, and mediocre that I spent some two hours just waiting for something interesting to be said. I could have spent two hours at the airport observing various people and come up with something more interesting. As one critic put it, "It's a dull world after all."
2 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
La Ronde, not by Arthur Schnitzler...
Author: jotix100 from New York
19 October 2012
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It is easy to see the appeal of a classic work, like "La Ronde" by Arthur Schnitzler, to be the basis of a film project. The fact that we, as humans, are more interconnected than we realize, is a theme that appeals to filmmakers all over the world. Unfortunately, this film was done better before by Max Ophuls in France.
This new retelling of the play was the work of the ambitious team of Fernando Mirelles, its director, and Peter Morgan, the screenwriter. For lack of imagination, the production goes all over the world in order to make its point. The action takes the viewer from Vienna, to Paris, to London, to Denver, and Phoenix, and back again. The film kept reminding this viewer of Robert Altman, a genius, in comparison, who could combine a lot of styles and situations into an end that, at least, made sense and was more palatable to audiences.
That is the basic problem with "360". Most of the stories do not connect, or get resolution, in most cases. There is a lot of talent in the film, poorly depicted on the screen. Take the cases of Jude Law's businessman prevented from having sex with an aspiring prostitute, or the grieving Anthony Hopkins coming to identify the body of who can be his runaway daughter.
The large cast is easy on the eyes, but in the final analysis, there is no substance to most of the vignettes. One can only recommend a viewing of the Max Ophuls' masterpiece "La Ronde".
23 out of 47 people found the following review useful:
the worst hyperlink movie ever!!
Author: Binoy Santhakumar (bonzybino) from India
21 July 2012
Let me not get this wrong but there's no hyperlink movie - movies with inter related characters and plots - which bored me till date, until watching 360. And have seen quite a lot of them to benchmark the genre, or the least to enjoy them. 360 falls flat with a lame storyline though it assembles some of the finest actors - needless to say all of them wasted - and for a thread about human connections and relations, it leaves a lot to be desired in the end.
The making style, the narration and the editing were good, but the screenplay had nothing new to offer, seen all of them and many of these characters and plots else where - Magnolia, crash, 96 minutes, traffic, Nine lives to name a few. I mean where's the novelty in showing interlocking stories of characters in pursuit of money, sex, love which have been told a million times! Thankfully we don't have an accident in the plot, easily the saving grace from getting all dejavu'd! To make it lamer the background scores were so erratic and ludicrous.
The movie with some names in the cast is hard to put down, how deceiving! and for a thread that was supposed to draw and evolve the complex nature of human relations sadly stoops, even before the drama gets built up to the core. A big let down.:( :(
1 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Personal Opinion of 360
Author: elaine-jade from United Kingdom
28 October 2012
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This way it goes back and forth between countries and peoples lives does remind me of crash but it isn't as good as crash. When initially watching the beginning of the movie i thought it was another film because i didn't recognise the actors and it was in another language. It did follow up on the rule that it only takes six connections before someone else knows you. This film was very realistic and i believe the music was well chosen for each scene. This film is dreadfully slow...there isn't anything fast paced included in it. I wouldn't necessarily define it as a romance either it is quite passionless. The atmosphere is very shallow. I think the film was put together in a great way but the plot of the story wasn't as good as i was expecting. However i really wish john found his daughter at the end...he looks so alone. This should have been a television program.
