The Big Bang

R

Released May 13, 2011

1 hr. 41 min.

Mystery & Thriller

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19%

16 Reviews

Tomatometer

25%

1,000+ Ratings

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The search for a boxer's missing girlfriend and diamond fortune leads a detective (Antonio Banderas) to a reclusive billionaire and a physicist who want to recreate the Big Bang.

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Cristian s

Técnicamente la película es entretenida, tiene buen ritmo y se puede ver. El problema principal es que la trama es muy mala, empieza bien y a medida que pasan los minutos se va deshilachando, cada giro que toma en la historia (además de ser muchas veces bastante ridículo) es siempre para peor. Al principio prometía pero se fue cayendo sin parar.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/04/23

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carlos t

Minha opinião: Percebi que estes dias assisti a vários filmes trash e este é mais um. Uma coisa que já disse, quem sabe se fosse o #Tarantino sendo o diretor este filme seria muito melhor. Um apelo idiota. Onde tem um brutamonte que se apaixonou por uma belíssima dama enquanto estava na prisão. E quando sai vai a procura dela. Para isso enfrenta todos os obstáculo e para ajudar contrata o detetive Banderas. Aonde ele tem que passar por várias situações até mesmo com mafiosos, cafetões e policiais corruptos. E chegar no final descobrir que a lindíssima se trata de um homem que esta dentro do armário. E todo mundo morre e onde estão os diamantes. E o Antonio sai na boa, com os diamantes e a lindissama loira. kkkkkk Roteiro: torpe Vale apena assistir? não Nota: 3

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Pretty light but I liked the sciencey bits even if a tad inaccurate. If you want a little fun then watch it.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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This is basically a kind of weird rework of Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. It's a gangster film set in the modern day, which makes it a different sort of animal altogether. I never imagined Phillip Marlowe-esque dialogue with an accent straight out of Desperado, but it works in it's own strange way. I expected a low critic rating - this movie doesn't tickle that part of their insular and insignificant brains that compels them into a froth of glowing, smug rhetoric. But I expected a higher audience score. Perhaps it's because this movie is so unexpected for Banderas that people didn't know how to take it. So here's the deal. It's brilliant. It's cool, it's sexy, it's clever, it's intelligent, it's compelling. You don't get to assemble this sort of cast without a good script. Banderas, Sam Elliot, Delroy Lindo, William Fitchner...etc. I'll admit...it's weird. It's neither one thing nor the other...and I can't quite figure out why. But it's great. The drive across the desert scene has me mesmerised every single time to the point that I watch it on loop. Do yourself a favour and check it out with an open mind. And then watch it again coz you will have missed half the nuance and dialogue the first time around. Thanks Tony Krantz...this one deserved way more love than what it got.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Audience Member

A cast that any director would kill for, star in this film that plays as sort of a "Pulp Fiction" meets a screenwriter on drugs. A premise so crazy it could have worked had it been handled properly, unfortunately all of the talent involved could not save a poorly written script with a very unsatisfying ending. Banderas is good as the typical private eye. D

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Dull suspense thriller, which attempts to do this in some sort of film noir style but despite the fine cast it's all rather disappointingly flat. Banderas is a private investigator looking for a missing girlfriend and a stash of diamonds

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Tony Krantz

Director

Antonio Banderas

Ned Cruz

Sienna Guillory

Julie Kestral

Thomas Kretschmann

Det. Frizer

William Fichtner

Det. Poley

Sam Elliott

Simon Kestral

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Peter Rainer

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Where else can you see a movie where a sexy waitress says, "Reality is just a wave function"?

Rated: B

May 13, 2011

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

For a noir, the film is way too talky and convoluted, yet for a physics lesson, it's trash.

Rated: 1.5/4

May 13, 2011

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Is Antonio Banderas's career really such a big bust? On the one hand, it's a shame to see a talented guy slumming in this budget-bin thriller. On the other, it'd be entirely unwatchable without him.

Rated: 1/5

May 13, 2011

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Jason Best

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Raymond Chandler meets Stephen Hawking in flashy film noir thriller The Big Bang, a bizarre mash-up of private-eye sleuthing and subatomic physics.

Mar 14, 2015

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Annlee Ellingson

Moving Pictures Magazine

Film noir for physics geeks, The Big Bang ... is a clever, if relentlessly dramatic (despite stabs at levity), existential detective story.

Jun 22, 2011

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D.K. Holm

Vancouver Voice

he script ultimately wastes the talents of actors

May 30, 2011

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Synopsis

The search for a boxer's missing girlfriend and diamond fortune leads a detective (Antonio Banderas) to a reclusive billionaire and a physicist who want to recreate the Big Bang.

Director: Tony Krantz
Screenwriter: Erik Jendresen
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Production Co: Hannibal Pictures
Rating: R (Some Strong Sexual Content|Nudity|Language|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 13, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2015

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