The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

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Abbi J Aug 12 What an utterly pointless film. There was no build up to anything that happened, it jumped around pointlessly and the end scene was unnecessary violence for the sake of it. I went into this expecting some commentary on the working class and vulnerable youths being led into things they would normally have never witnessed and instead wasted an hour and a half of my life. See more 12/12/2019 Utter trash after the first 15 minutes. Someone got reaaaal excited about all the new things they had just learned in film school, but seemed to sleep through every lesson on character development, subtlety (the odd thing is: he was using subtlety throughout most of the film, but it's ironic how massively overdone subtlety can be), red herrings, and how to create an actual fucking plot! Nearly all of the scenes were so far away, that you couldn't even see the people half the time, which made it nearly impossible to know who was who and what was happening. Has this guy never read a single book in his life? Characters are never one-dimensional automatons with no backstories or reasons why they do what they do. Everyone in the film is a sloppy caricature of pure evil, and the whole thing is absurd. He HAS to know someone in the business that he blackmailed to make this film, because i can't imagine a single true artist who would look at this and not tell him how badly he needs to find a different profession. See more 12/27/2018 What a bunch of pretentious drivel. I only watched this film because there was a video that named it one of the best horror films of the last decade. What an utter joke. It tries to be Kubrickesque, it fails. It tries to be horror, however the horror is completely missing. It is a slapshot admixture of angry English youth not quite sure what to do with themselves. I want my hour and a half back. See more 03/09/2012 Ugly, disjointed with sub par acting, nonsensical plot and shockingly brutal climax. While the beginning seems promising, after a while it is obvious that the plot is going nowhere and the awful climax is the director's only way to get the audience's attention back. Watch something else. See more 02/11/2012 Well its just rubbish. Nothing happens for a good hour and when stuff does happen its just awful, there's no reason behind the bad stuff that happens. Nothing likeable or hateable about the characters, just nothingness and complete boredom throughout. You can tell that the director is trying to make some point about the iraq war, in which he manages to convey nothing to audience really. One good point is that sometimes the camerawork is quite good and interesting. And you can tell the director is technically quite capable, a kind of 'Gasper Noe' wannabe. I hope that he manages to stop this obsession he has with rape and war and create something a little more worthwhile as this is just a waste of time for all who watch this. Its like a unhealthy mixture of a exploitation director wannabe, a muddle script, unsure acting, drawn out awful rape scenes and (the cherry on top) Danny bloody Dyer.... See more 02/10/2012 Nothing really happens until the last 15 mins which is utterly horrendous. An uncompromising, realistic film. Another great British film. Another great British horror. See more Read all reviews

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