Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

SnoopyStyle Grace (Susan Sarandon) and Allen Brewer (Pierce Brosnan) are devastated when their son Bennett (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is killed. He had stopped in the middle of the road to romance Rose (Carey Mulligan) when they get hit by Jordan Walker (Michael Shannon). Grace is obsessed with her son's last minutes with the criminal Jordan waiting for him to wake up from his coma. When a pregnant Rose shows up at their door, Grace is furious and disbelieving. Allen is more supportive of the homeless Rose. Bennett's black sheep younger brother Ryan (Johnny Simmons) struggles to deal with his family and he finds Ashley (Zoë Kravitz) in his support group.The greatest part is the actors. There are some aspects that feels awkward. Grace's obsession is very obsessive. Her relationship with Rose is strange. It speaks to a dysfunction before Bennett's death. Carey Mulligan is enchanting and Pierce Brosnan is terrific. Aaron Taylor-Johnson doesn't fit the school star role. He's more of a geek. This is a sudsy soap that has plenty of family melodrama that is elevated by the first class cast.

Muzaffer Bayraktar I cried more than once during this movie. I recalled the ones I cared. It doesn't have to be a person what you lost. Something you cared about. I'm a 32 year old guy looking tough with enough physical and mental proof. I thought that I'm really messed up while watching the movie and crying at the very same time. I don't know how I would have felt if I never had lost anything big in my life. But I did and this movie gave me a great relief like someone I don't know understood what I've been through and said "Hey, I have the same thing. I got you. Everything will be alright". It might give you the same relief it gave me. I can't talk in the name of you. But you should give this movie a chance. Maybe it will say something for you no one ever did before.

Argemaluco I complained in various occasions about the family dramas which ignore the story in order to plunge into the characters' suffering...and The Greatest is one of them. As many of these dramas, the film relies on competent performances to keep us moderately interested, but there is not too much story after all; we simply have a premise which could have been much more interesting if someone had made an effort to bring it a better structure and an authentic message.After having established the situation during the first half hour, we still have 60 minutes in The Greatest to see how every member from a family assimilates all the hard things they have to go through. And sure, the things they live are enough extreme to justify various scenes about suffering, consternation and compromise. In other words, all the actors have the opportunity of showing us their most afflicted expressions, and their solid performances certainly make The Greatest to look better than what it really is.However, I am usually not left very satisfied by these movies which consist of a constant suffering, because I feel that they exploit really tragic situations for the audience's entertainment; but I do not want to discard the possibility that its artificial sentimentality might help someone to overcome a horrible personal situation, so I think I have to give it the benefit of the doubt and give The Greatest a slight recommendation for what it is: a generic drama which results moderately interesting thanks to the performances from Susan Sarandon, Pierce Brosnan, Carey Mulligan and Johnny Simmons, whose collective presence is the only thing which makes this movie better than many dramas made for TV.

perkypops The subject matter seems simple. Boy gets girl pregnant and dies in road traffic accident, and his passing opens all kinds of wounds within his grieving family. But this story is far from a simple one about grief, as it explores jealousy, morbidity, self destruction, and so much more, as Rose, the pregnant girlfriend, pieces together the picture of Bennett the boy she has secretly loved for four years but really only known for just a few hours.Beautifully acted with powerful performances all round, this film is a carefully guided tour about emotional healing processes which is never over sentimental. There are several memorable moments in this film where relationships are threaded together or torn apart by virtue of the wonderful script. The film is exceedingly well edited.You will see more entertaining films but if you are looking for depth of character and well crafted story telling then this takes some beating.