Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

bizzywiththefizzy Had relatively high hopes for this as I adored Nicholas Hoult as X- Men's Beast as well as the adorable zombie in 'Warm Bodies'.I haven't read the book, so I can't speak for the source material and how it compares, but this film was dreadful.I get that his character - the protagonist- is meant to be a misanthropic sociopath, but at no point is he engaging on any level. At no point did I feel like I cared about anything he said or did. It was just boring and sad. I started painting my nails after five minutes in.Even his inevitable 'break down' was tedious. I couldn't give a monkey's as he drank and drugged himself to near death in his underwear while whinging along to 'Karma Police' (am astonished Radiohead gave the rights to their epic video for this piece of crap).Seriously, don't waste your time.If you want to see a British 'misanthrope tricks, manipulates and destroys people' film, watch 'Filth' or 'Naked' - these are wonderful and essential viewing.The one star rating is for the very brief, bumbling role played by the always lovely James Corden and the wide-eyed young talent scout played by the equally sweet and talented Craig Roberts. Also, the performances by fictional indie band 'The Lazies' were great (Freda Sundemo is fantastic here), but just look these up on You Tube rather than sit through this drivel. Plus, the little dog was cute (RIP).I laughed once - when the chorus of a highly inappropriate Euro dance track is debuted at a meeting. That was it.

brianpalmer-61642 The movie was somewhat interesting in the beginning only because it was very similar to "American Psycho". However, after so many drug scenes, it just got plain boring. The characters are very good looking and are rather interesting. However, the plot just seems so disjointed that their efforts just tend to fall flat. I think a different script would have been extremely helpful as well. There are only so many f bombs and sexist insults you can stand. The main character was really complicated and intriguing. I wish the film had developed his character more than focusing on other aspects.By the way, use the subtitle feature so you can understand the dialogue. British brogue is very hard to understand. I am planning to read the novel to see if it is any better!!

shock-lit It became a modern trend to rebrand shockingly poor films as "dark comedies" - it's one rock cliché after another, but it presents a parallel world where A&R people are the rockstars and the rockstars live lives of accountants.There are no laughs. It's not that absurd. It's just ridiculous.It follows the same story as Vinyl - if you've seen Vinyl, then this is almost the exact same story. A&R person kills someone, beats him to death with an award/trophy, the slowest, dumbest murder investigation, corruption, hedonism, sex, drugs (nopes, no rock 'n roll, just office workers pretending like they're rock stars).The show has an arrogant way of pretending "We (record companies) tell you what's cool, what isn't, we tell you what to listen to" and so on. It continues a theme started by certain shows about advertising, but takes it to a whole new level. The problem with that is how far they go and the irreconcilable issues they themselves present with this.Firstly, they show that they can make any bunch of idiots into rockstars and pop idols, it's all make up, photography, studio work and so on, fine. So the record companies make the stars. They tell the fans what to like and what not to like. Fine. But then they have this incredible fear of missing out on the next big band - what? Didn't you just say you tell people what to like? Didn't you say you can make any nobody into a star? So how do you "miss out"? "I don't want to be the person who said 'no' to band X..." It makes no sense. It's a terrible film made by someone who clearly feels left out. They want to be stars, they want to party like they're stars, but can't, so they pretend that they hold all the power.In reality this doesn't make sense. It's one massive ego trip and fails to be anything but that.If you really want to see this film, watch Vinyl instead. Same story, but better made. Vinyl is a 5/10, but it's almost twice as better as this crap.

littlepalmer If you liked the book, then you should enjoy the movie just fine. The issue is the book is not something easily adaptable to become a movie that you could enjoy even if you never read the book and liked it. Some more tweaking could've made this movie a lot more enjoyable to the general audience instead of just taking out the more offensive lines. At the end of the movie you learned and felt nothing. Just an hour and a half to waste time. Steven Stelfox gives you no reason to understand why he would have friends in the first place. You literally know nothing about Steven beyond his cynical internal monologue about the world. Obviously he's not a likable guy, and he's even more charmless in the book, but it doesn't translate well on screen. That was the biggest issue.I think all of the actors did a good job, and Nicholas Hoult did a good job of portraying Steven even though I think he was still looking way too young to be that cynical about life. Other than that, I don't think this book should have been a movie, some things are just better off being left as books.