Rumours

Tedious dialogue, pompous ‘message’ that you grasp in the first 2 minutes. Then you get to listen to the dull conversation of the protagonists for 40 minutes while you wait for anything at all to happen. What does finally happen is uninteresting and again-we get it. We don’t have to sit through this masturbatory-haha joke from the movie-nonsense. It’s like The Exterminating Angel without the laughs.

I was lucky enough to see this in a packed theater at the Ebertfest with Guy Maddin there, and this film was a blast. It was absolutely hilarious, and the audience was breaking out in laughter the whole film. It features Maddin's best set of characters yet, with all of them being equally interesting. This picture also has a fine balance of humor and Maddin's signature poetic ideas and dialogue. Visually, this film was stunning. Maddin's use of color was amazing, and it features some of Maddin's best surrealist imagery yet. It was interesting seeing Maddin also finally depart from his imitation silent film style. I absolutely loved Rumours, and it's easily the best film of last year.

Entiendo la sátira, lo estereotipados que están los personajes, se puede deducir con cierta facilidad en quienes están basados y el mensaje que se quiere dar, pero es que no conecte con ella en ningún momento, el elenco es MUY bueno, pero el ritmo lento para construir un climax que nunca termina de llegar y el final anticlimático que explica vagamente lo que esta pasando son un bajón claro en una película que pudo haber dado mucho más.

An underrated movie that is a hidden gem. The hidden messages about our political climate and a foreshadowing of what’s to come. With all that, it’s funny, gloomy, dramatic, and charming.

It's art. It's not really genre fiction. Being art, there is a point being made which may or may not stand the test of time. There are some goodish points made via satire, but it lacks the brilliance of, say, Pope or Swift, but kudos for the attempt.

I just found it disrespectful, not really satirizing anything, just making fun of the characters with no empathy. I wonder what the people he was lampooning felt about it, frankly hope they don't see it. I like Maddin so kept hoping it would improve, but ended up sorry I hadn't walked out.

The wide disparity between the critics and the popcorn crowd says it all. A critic is in danger of losing face with the cognoscenti if he or she discloses his or her true feelings about a POS dropped on the road by prominent Film "Artiste." Paying customers have no such concerns. I won't bother to elaborate, just read the other one-star reviews, which are mercifully short and refreshingly honest.

Another high score movie according to RT. It's as the G7 summit really is. lots fast talking and hard to follow. I use close caption so I couldn't follow anything because before I could finish reading the caption it was gone and someone else was fast talking. I found it very irritating to watch it. I lasted all of 10 minutes.

And I didn't like it. At first, I was very intrigued by the premise of the movie. The leaders of the G7 come together and are then thrown into a crisis where they are left to their own devices and they have to survive by themselves. Which could be a great allegory for the state of the world today. Instead it is a bizarre, pointless wander through the interactions between the different characters as they make their way to potential safety. Every single one of them is a characterless as the next, nothing defines them as they bumble through the story mumbling with big words that are just as meaningless. The events that spurred their walk of survival are just as useless as the leaders. There is no clue at all what is happening, nothing is even remotely explained (nor are the masturbating bog-people coming to life and the big brain they find in the woods). Which I guess... Is the point of it all? I have no idea. The couple of points it gets is the two laughs it got out of me and the interesting use of colour. Besides that... A miss. A shame, really. (I have no clue why Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance chose to be in this project, which is as bizarre as the movie.)

Watching this movie was an utter waste of time. Even Cate Blanchett can't save the poor script and one wonders why she has lent her reputation for this drag. Even the title of the film is totally incomprehensible.