Buster's Mal Heart

I'm a huge fan of Rami Malek's acting. I could watch him act in anything. His acting is just mesmerizing to me. I hope Hollywood gives him more roles. This was good. I wasn't crazy about it, but Rami always shows up to work. He did his part.

As a fan of Rami Malek and slow, brooding movies, I really wanted to like this one. Unfortunately there just isn't much that's compelling here.

"Buster's Mal Heart" will infuriate some viewers, annoy others, delight others, and generate quite a few Google "explanations." It's incoherent yet coherent. It's not filmed sequentially, yet it has a cohesive feel. Rami Malek plays Jonas / Buster in alternating scenes of the same man at different points in his life—or more precisely, in his head. He's a man split in two. One of him is Jonas, a caring family man who works as a hotel concierge and lives with his in-laws so he and his wife can save money for a piece of property and someday live a simple, independent life. The other is Buster, a wild-eyed, bearded mountain man who breaks into vacation homes, eating people's food and sleeping in their beds. Malek also plays a third character in dreamlike sequences, symbolically adrift in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. This film is absolutely bursting with symbolism, much of it biblical. It raises more questions than it answers. It doesn't proceed in a linear fashion from beginning to end. You just watch and absorb. This review has been deliberately obscure in terms of details. That's because it's impossible to describe. Personally, I was drawn into it, and I think most thoughtful viewers will be, too. The rest of you—Well, you're probably better off sticking with the usual Hollywood fare. Sarah Adina Smith is to be congratulated for making such an audacious and weird film.

A bit discontinuous, but they may improve with a second viewing?!

New Title - A slow moving abstract sloth! He is a great actor but it was no thriller. I dozed off a couple of times. Yes a mystery - as in what the F did I just watch. Waste of my time. I don't do surreal. It was not intellectually deep. Best described as a slow moving abstract sloth.

I’m into cracking plot in movies but this one go from easy to confusing - at the end I got bored and just let the movie runs in course - and I’m like whatever done

Extremely slow for the entire movie.Way too many questions. My main question is how a group of professionals actually thought this was a good plot to turn into a movie.

Great movie to watch with your family and friends.

Low budget mind twister in the same vein as mr robot and inception. If those were too much for you then avoid buster.

Its complex narrative structure, slow pace and convoluted plot make it unappealing for mainstream audiences. But its deft direction, surreal style, a superb lead performance from Rami Malek, unexpected plot twists, social commentary and some biblical references make it a thought-provoking, genre-bending, engaging, compelling and insightful although severely underrated arthouse indie drama.