I really wanted to enjoy this movie but it was simply impossible
353594
I really wanted to enjoy this movie but it was simply impossible. I have always liked Elle Fanning as an actress. Neon Demon is creepy and drawn out with an absolutely terrible ending. Don't waste your time.
3175721
Huge comics fan, especially DC.  The animated movies are really a Trademark to movie making without a doubt! Wow I really wanted to like this but it was barely watchable!  Unfortunately the director didn't think highly of jonah Hex.
694226
Did not enjoy this movie at all nor the characters.
2958214
I really, really wanted to like this film.  I eagerly anticipated its release over many long months of following the press releases and snapped up a copy the moment it hit the shelf at a local department store.  The verdict?

Quite simply:  stay away unless you're a die-hard Wells fan and have to have everything related to his works, no matter how awful.

I'm a collector of "fan films" and a 3D CGI artist, and I have many efforts produced for under US$20,000 and released for free which show far more professional editing, acting and "special effects" than this film.  The directing is uninspired, which is reflected in the insipid performances.  The editing is the worst sort of amateurish choppyness, resulting in pacing that is all to often a squirming-in-your-seat-awful dragging out of mundane activities.  The director can't even claim attempts to evoke period moods and mindsets, as he fails to deliver those contexts, resulting in numerous scenes which are just bloat.  This film should have weighed in at 2 hours, tops, and the inability to recognize and edit out the fat is the first and worst sign of an inexperienced director.  Sure, he tried to follow the book (which I have read so many times I couldn't possibly enumerate them, and which I absolutely love every time I re-read it), but there's a difference between adapting a novel for the screen and slavishly copying every written scene no matter how poorly it translates to film.  The latter shows no imagination and little creativity, and is the hallmark of the form this film has taken.

I won't even start in on the CGI, as the memories are too painful.  Suffice to say, given the enormous amount of talent out here that generates studio-quality work for free, just for the fun of it, there's simply no excuse for a supposedly professional film to display the embarrassing level of work found in this film.  I've rolled my eyes at sci-fi fan films that were better than this.

I want my money back.
4324048
I wanted to like this movie.  I really did.  The idea was a good one - unfortunately it is poorly executed.  From the slow moving script, to the 70's era back music, to the bad acting - it was all just too much to suffer through after about 30-40 minutes.  I'm sure there was redemption but I (and the rest of my family) needed to be redeemed from the agony of sitting through the entirety.  It was that bad.  Every stereotype is overdone and the guy who's supposed to be the most sympathetic character comes off as a scary stocker.  He's begging everyone to give him a chance to do an honest day's work to earn a meager wage, with an appropriate bible verse ready to roll off his tongue at all the right moments,  but he's confrontational, aggressive and nearly yelling at everyone he's asking help of - most of whom are the among the most downright heartless people imaginable toward him.  Even so, I would call the cops on him too if he persisted in my personal space after ambushing me at the back door of my business - yes, even though I'm a Christian.  It was almost laughable. Though we didn't make it to the end, I'm confident that everything was wrapped up in a neat little package and everyone lived happily ever after.  Surely there are more excellent modern day representations out there.  Much more enjoyable, with still not the greatest acting overall, was The Secret of Jonathan Sperry.  Our 10 year old son especially enjoyed that one.  I imagine I'll catch flack about this review but I'm sticking to it.  It could have spread what Jesus in action looks like today in an excellent way but it falls short.
4270523
Movie is great.  But somehow it kept stopping and reverting back to the same point in the movie.  I never was able to finish it.  I don't know if the problem was with Amazon or with my cable company (for internet service).  I've never had the problem before.  And it's especially irritating when Amazon Prime doesn't cover an old movie like this so you pay for it and can't even watch it.
2196688
I had higher hopes for this movie but it was borderline ridiculous to be honest with you.
136806
I really wanted to like this movie, and did find plenty to enthuse over, but ultimately, no doubt due to my own inadequacies as a human being, it was simply tedious. I was put off when half-way through, my wife started snoring and my 15-year-old movie buff daughter picked up a maths book to study in preference to watching more of it.

The most irritating scene is where Michel sits around in his undies playing the tough wiseass beseeching his 'girlfriend' to sleep with him. I doubt there was a tight script for this part of the movie. In an attempt to be hyper-realistic this scene sadly comes across as totally feigned - it's embarrasing watching the actors ad-libbing to fill-out their roles - and from this point the immersion in the reality of the movie is completely destroyed.

It reminded me of a John Waters movie with a girl is sitting on a train, eating lunch, farting, scratching her nose and staring out the window... for two hours. Performance art? Maybe.
711824
I tried to like it, really I did...they just didn't pull it off IMO.  Spoofs can be fun like Galaxy Quest, Spinal Tap, Scream or 8 Legged Freaks, all much better attempts.  Now what would have been probably more entertaining would be to have had Mystery Science Theater doing the audio...Two starts for the effort but I wouldn't recommend watching this.
1732180
... I just couldn't. I was able to suffer through 3/4 of it but couldn't finish. I love comedies as well as action films and this was neither (despite really trying to be).
1179322
I noticed that some others really liked this movie but I thought it was strange and kept waiting for it to get better. The choice of background music in several places made it seem like a dark comedy, but I had the impression that that wasn't the intention. Also, many of the situations were just too unlikely to be realistic. The female Native American part was the only one that seemed close to possible. The rest of the story just didn't work for several reasons.
871542
Boy, I wanted to like this movie.  The professional reviewers had prepared me to think that this movie was at the head of it's class when it came to the theater.  Bill Nighy is rightfully praised for stealing the movie and with a cast that includes Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman and Liam Neeson, what could go wrong?
For starters there was the "cute" idea that a couple who serve as body doubles in a porno movie would actually be shy and have difficulty communicating to each other that they really were attracted to one another in between the times that they were naked and bringing their private parts together.  When the first of these many scenes appeared on the screen a white-haired couple seated in front of the Mrs and myself walked out.  We were not offended enough to leave, but these scenes were unfortunately not particularly engaging or believable either.
Then there is the cute notion of the assistant to the Prime Minister of England who is commonly given to firing off language that my mother (and I bet your mother too) would call vulgar, he he, whenever the Prime Minister happens to be just coming in the door.  This is aside from the notion that her character is a full generation younger than he, yet they are *destined* to be together.
Has anyone else seen too many "Romantic Comedies" that end with one of the characters (usually the female) leaving (usually forever) their male love interest by heading towards an airport, only to have their true love come crashing towards that plane to catch them at the last second?  That cliche was ALREADY too old for me, and to see it trotted out again by having Liam Neeson's pre-pubescent son rushing through the airport after his pre-pubescent sweetie made me groan.
Bill Nighy runs away with his scenes, and the sub-plot with Colin Firth and the Italian house girl was fairly satisfying, though predictable.
In short - there are some eight or so stories going on here at once, and only about half are believable or interesting, while a few would shock your Mom so badly she'd faint.
1108311
I'm sure the movie itself is great, but we couldn't actually watch it because the audio was so messed up, it would play minutes in advance and sounded like hyper chipmunks. We refreshed and restarted everything but it didn't help.
2654263
This movie just went way too overboard trying (and missing) to be clever, cutesy and hip. Nothing worked in my opinion. The music score was completely off-putting (not the music itself - just wrong for the movie). The dialogue was agonizing. The stunts - well, no one does stunts like Jackie Chan but in this movie all that was missing were the POW! WHAM! and  OOF! overlays a la Adam West's Batman.
936021
I wanted to like this movie and I watched the whole thing waiting for something special or funny, but finally in the end, I felt like, "was that it"?

For me, at least, a very forgettable film.
977074
I wanted to like this movie but Stewart ruined it... it could have been outstanding with the great special effects and other actors/actresses who did a great job
635330
I wanted to like this movie, I really did, but I found it terrible.  I was hoping the cast would redeem the ridiculous story line, but to no avail.