Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

scareahmonster It was very well written & the cast was spot on! It was a fun movie & kinda reminded me of a modern day "Breakfast Club" in a mild way. It was full of witty teenage angst & being misunderstood. I love Charlie's character, you really cant go wrong with Anton Yelchin. The other actors Robert Downey Jr.,Kat Dennings (amazing!!) & Hope Davis were also wonderful!! Kat is her normal sarcastic & smart self, Hope is very "Norma Bates" in her personal style, Robert was pretty good but not amazing. I still fell in love with the cast, especially the "bully" & well....all the supporting members. It was the kind of movie that made me miss High School...well, if that was how High School really was! Anywho I loved it & recommend it to everyone!!!

daddy8902 As an avid Scifi fan I was really looking forward to this 'alien' prequel and perhaps therein lies the problem but this film is flawed on so many levels I do not know where to begin but I will begin with the biggest and most fatal flaw of the lot. I did not care! The characters are so under developed that not only didn't I care about any of them but didn't really understand why any would behave in the ways that they did. Fassbender was OK, Rapace wasn't bad given her command of the English language is less than perfect but all others were vacuous and frankly pointless. Theron suffers particularly for this poor lack of development and just comes across as wooden rather than cold which I suspect was the intention.The second problem is plausibility. Now I know it's a scifi and you need to suspend disbelief but that should be limited to the premise. As it is we are asked to believe that these so called scientists, educated and measured people would disregard scientific methods and become mindless idiots, wandering off from groups (cliche) and prodding and poking things as soon as they see them. Collecting samples in what can only be described as a duffle bag is among the worst of these actions.Finally and perhaps most disappointingly for Alien fans is where is the menace? Alien and some of the sequels succeeded because you were anxious almost all the way through the film. Here there was none, no egde of your seat moments, no heart stopping scenes, just a collection of uneven scenes hastily cobbled together to minimal effect.It is beautifully shot hence why I've given it 4 stars but other than that very poor and for me the most underwhelming film I've seen in a long while!

Walter_Skinner I have to admit that I first judged this movie from it's trailer (who doesn't?) It looked astronomically dumb. With some kid running around in his underwear screaming random things. It made me cover my face in shame. But when I finally got around to watching it I was actually taken back by how enjoyable the movie was. The movie managed to be fun, upbeat, and Robert Downy Jr. did a very nice job in it. (My favorite part was when he fights Charlie in the pool when he thinks that he got his daughter pregnant) If you are sick of watching the same dumb teen coming of age movies that Hollywood has made and you want a slight change of pace then you should watch this movie.

KineticSeoul I can understand what direction it's trying to go but isn't all that absorbing. The plot is about not the average drug dealer and the main reason why he sells drugs is not because of the money but because of popularity. It's starts off alright but loses it's edge as the film progresses and becomes very narrow in a negative way. For a comedy it wasn't funny and the direction and pacing isn't well done, like I said I know what it's trying to do but doesn't really accomplishes that task. Also for the most part this is a very predictable movie with characters that are not memorable. The premise would have been alright but nothing is really absorbing or got my attention, but left me bored most of the way through. Maybe because of the dull and generic direction it takes, it isn't a terrible movie but there are better movies with a similar premise.5.8/10