SnoReptilePlenty
Memorable, crazy movie
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Gordon-11
This film tells the story of a paranoid man who spends his life running away from the authorities.I have to say that I just don't understand the plot at all. It is confusing, and is not helped by the constant jumping between different time points. I can't piece together the story from the scenes displayed. It is quite a pity.
barbagvido
Buster's Mal Heart is a movie about a man who has a job and a family and then he meets this other guy who seeds paranoia into his mind and "wakes him up". So it becomes a story about a man who lost his mind. It starts Rami Malek, known of Mr. Robot, in a very similar role to that one. Actually, the whole movie kinda feels like a dull, season filler episode of Mr. Robot.I went into it expecting a total puzzle full of twists and mind-bending moments, but the movie is actually pretty dull. Malek is fantastic and there is some nice symbolism at times, but it's all overshadowed by the boredom of this movie. I didn't hate it, I just didn't find it engaging. It does have a few nice moments, but it's not enough to make the movie stick out. It just feels overlong and pretentious with quite a few unnecessary moments. Just to make this clear, I love the puzzling art-house flicks, but this felt more like something that wanted to be one of those instead of actually being one. And I didn't find myself thinking much about it after I finished it. Only a little about the ending, but that quickly faded away too. Also, one of the reasons is because it felt like too many things we've already seen before (Mr. Robot and Fight Club in particular) and to me at least, it never felt really as fresh as unique. I suggest you rather watch (or re-watch) Mr. Robot.
Reno Rangan
This is one of those films, you won't properly get the notion. Too random, surreal, but at the end somehow all connects. The narration has multiple layers, that's what confusing at the initial stage. Though I liked the character nicknamed, 'the last free man'. If I had watched this film successfully means, that's the main reason. But I felt they have under-used it or missed a great opportunity. Because it was a wonderful film character. Tens of stories can be created using such role. But why did they go for a dry story. In my opinion, it should have been in the line of 'Captain Fantastic'.Rami was okay. He did justify the role he had played. But not like a performance of the year. I understand why this film was very dark, and partially being a dark comedy. The overall storyline looked good. The man with ambition, and to meet that end, he had dedicated his life. But he did not know what he's becoming. It was like 'Split' meets 'Bad Santa'. From all, the boat scenes were a bit of out of context. Yet it brought distinct perspective to the character who was struggling with reality. A film for a few selected people. I feel bad for rating it such low, but I'm only being honest.3/10
Adler-99
I think if you look at the film as being similar to a long, deep episode of The Twilight Zone, you'll get it.Jonah is a graveyard (sad pun) shift concierge in a crappy, dead-end hotel in a crappy, dead-end town. He and his wife Marty and toddler daughter Roxy (adorable Sukha Belle Potter) live with Marty's parents in order to save money for a better life. Marty's mother is a shrill harpy and her father is silent. There is a subtle hint at one point that perhaps Roxy is not Jonah's biological daughter, which armchair geneticists will notice right away when they see her chocolate brown eyes yet her parents both have blue.Jonah tries to stay awake while working his night shifts and watching his daughter during the day, and it's never clear when he sleeps. How much of what happens to him is real, and how much is a sleep deprivation-fueled hallucination? There are more easy-to-miss hints in the soundtrack of the movie; listen for static noises that indicate something's not quite right in Jonah's world.Religious allusions are rampant. Obvious are the name Jonah and being "in the belly of the whale," and also the frogs that appear to rain from the sky. Look, too, for a shot where a heavily bearded Buster lies in a bathtub, arms spread wide, looking for all the world like a picture of The Crucifixion. Finally, at the end there is a cave scene that recalls the tomb of Jesus on Easter morning -- is he there or is he not? What can we believe?