Beystiman
It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Bergorks
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Gavin Purtell
If you haven't seen any of the 'Entourage' TV series (which ran from 2004-2011), then you may occasionally be at a loss during the film. The film starts off with a brief 'where-are-they-now' (on a yacht in the Mediterranean, surrounded by dozens of women, obviously), but doesn't offer much background otherwise, assuming if you're watching it, you already know the four main characters - Vince (Grenier), Eric (Connolly), Turtle (Ferrara) & Drama (Dillon) - plus Ari (Piven), who is almost more essential to the show/film than any of the others.As usual, there's plenty of guest stars - Wahlberg, Alba, Favreau, Neeson, Grammer, Busey, Saget, Spade, Hammer, various NFL players - which sometimes add something to the film, but often seem unnecessary and seem to be there purely to make it feel like Hollywood. There's a minor plot for each of the entourage - Vince directing his first film; Drama hoping for a breakout role in that film (& getting embroiled in some online retribution); Turtle trying to get date a girl who happens to be a professional wrestler; and Eric doing pregnancy things with his currently separated wife. Nothing revolutionary plot-wise and - besides Royal Blood at the start, Jane's Addiction at the titles and Tame Impala in the middle - there's some very average music throughout.Ari is slightly calmer and - even though he still screams and says mean things - he comes off as more charming and less abrasive than before. Great to see Piven & Thornton acting together - arguably to only two 'real' actors/stars in the film! Also, credit to Haley Joel Osment, who plays entitled, ignorant hick superbly. The main issue most people will have with this film is its portrayal of Los Angeles - young/skinny women in bikinis (or not), always a party, always sunny, always a brunch. Possibly true, but it does often feel plastic/forced. However, the film isn't bad - it just feels like three episodes rolled into one, with no real sense of tension or resolution at all. It's just a comfortable ride with familiar faces.
Simply-Red
My goodness, a 6.7 on IMDb? I've always relied on this site for intelligent and trustworthy reviews and that's probably the reason I rented this to watch.IMDb let me down on this one. Was a bunch of nothingness.I'm only giving as much as 3 stars because all the cameo appearances make it better than a 1 star. Otherwise this move...was this a movie? I'm not even sure.I chuckled a few times, never laughed out loud once. It held my attention with nudity, sex and male bro antics till the end...somehow...not sure how.This movie is 104 minutes of meaninglessness and cameo appearances. I did enjoy seeing the many actors and comediennes and see some of them cuss with raunchiness. I'll see them in a better light on other shows now, but this movie was a stroll through nothing that matters or makes you laugh...unless you are...well...they type of person this movie would make laugh...somehow...My wife and I never thought the series would be any good. Now we know we were correct. Good thing we didn't waste our time on that.We're not movie snobs and have really liked some stupid movies, but this move wasn't even stupid enough...or smart enough...or action enough...or anything really...It looked like all the people in the movie who got paid to be in it were having a good time though. A lot of people who's careers really needed something at least got a union minimum paycheck from it.
heaven1-2
As noted elsewhere, if you didn't like, or have never seen, the series, I don't think that you will get much out of the movie.I don't know if this is a "spoiler" but the fact that the movie picks up 9-10 days later and it is now 2015, didn't bother me. Afterall, Entourage was never about hard fact reality.It was a good Entourage script and I enjoyed all the cameo's. I especially enjoyed all of the old characters making return appearances.It was light, frothy and fun! Didn't exactly expect the end, but as soon as it began, I knew what the 'final word' would be! Well done! My wife asked me why I was laughing. My response was because it was just perfect.
Scarecrow-88
Hot-shot Hollywood producer Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) comes out of retirement to help get his star commodity (Adrian Grenier) a directorial gig for which he also star. It seems Gold will be running his own studio, but being beholden to Texas billionaire (Billy Bob Thornton) and his doofus son (Haley Joel Osment) does him no favors when the movie pretty boy Vince (Grenier) is directing goes over budget (and needs further financing). Meanwhile the movie follows the further exploits of Vinnie's entourage in and about Hollywood. Insider-Hollywood claptrap will probably go over well with those who operate within the confines of the movie business, but if you have no interest in the affairs of these kinds of people (actors, studio execs, producers, financiers, and the hangers-on which attach themselves to anyone with money and lots of it), this will not go down well unless a steady dose of Pepto is on hand. Vapid, shallow lifestyles are so much fun to follow…if you are among them. Hell, Vinnie is posed to us as this kind-hearted Hollywood star who treats his boys quite well (leeches who have financially reaped from this association; lucky friends and brother they are!), while poor Ari must endure the pratfalls of studio bosses and moneymen wanting to see his star's product before paying another dime. The entourage: Eric (Kevin Connolly) has a pregnant ex and sex addiction he's contending with, Vinnie's bro, Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon; the best part about this movie, I thought), just can't get his career on track and a sex tape farce has him the joke on every tongue and the butt of every joke, and Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) desperately wants to hook up with MMA fighting legend, Rhonda Rousey. The film also offers non-stop cameos, ranging from Mark Wahlberg to Liam Neeson. There's a special interest in getting as many recognizable faces in the movie as possible, but I think the appeal of such an idea loses its value due to its obvious desperation ("Look, there's Gary Busey!" "Hey, there's Kelsey Grammar!"). I think Altman's "The Player" isn't in the same vein as his camera establishes place without pleading for us to cheer at their "star cameo" or be amused by their willingness to cooperate within the world of the select characters (Ari's encounters are often unpleasant with the Grammers and Neesons in his town; Vinnie is quite a big deal to the likes of Wahlberg). The movie glams it up and really beats its chest regarding the industry it lovingly projects. But if you live the industry and have reaped its rewards, this film might just be the apple of your eye.Woof, Rousey is a beast in the ring and not bad to look at, but maybe she should hold the scowl and refrain from speaking dialogue. Eric stuck at a café table facing girls he banged the previous day, while Haley Joel Osment fumes over Grenier getting his girl: this is the kind of peachy entertainment you are in store for. So feast! Dillon's dilemma (including phone sex with a married woman whose hubby threatens to take him out) in regards to a pitiful career is perhaps the best part of this whole thing.
