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Henry D @Henry_Domke Jun 30 A beautifully filmed story, and a fine print, about a writer, with twist upon twist upon twist. It raises interesting questions about originality, success, integrity, and what a writing career might actually entail. Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Irons were both excellent. See more Mbongeni M @mbongeni.maira May 13 I fell in love with reading because of this movie, it was worth a watch See more Leonardo S @LeoShinozaki Mar 11 Magical film. It is a compound of different stories, and they strangely melt togheter See more Emanoel D @RT19270496 Jul 31 This movie is amazing, it makes you think about your life and the choices you have to make. See more Ifeoma B @RT37549937 05/10/2025 This is nice and I recommend but I expected more at the end. I wanted the old man to let Rory write a second book on the story of how the first book came about and give credits to the old man and I feel in that way Rory wouldn't live in doubt. See more Blu B @RT43513976 11/27/2024 The musics pretty good and Bradley Cooper's performance is great along with JK Simmons but aside from that there really isn't much else I can point too that left much of an impression on me. Everything is mediocre. Going down the list: Zoe Saldana is just alright in this and has some decent chemistry with Cooper but a lot of times I just felt like she was forgettable and the script doesn't do much with her. My biggest problem with this is the overall structure of 3 stories that form a story within a story within a story is an interesting idea but I've yet to see it done right once. Most films that do just a story within a story have to walk a very fine to line and it's difficult so I can't imagine how hard it is to do to the 3rd power. Each of the three main characters get a third of the runtime roughly and it makes perfect sense. Nothing is covuluted about it at all. The biggest problem is in the middle where for 30 minutes straight Irons character comes in and we get a 30 minute flashback fo him talking about himself in the third person which was weird and it feels like this 30 minute scene should'nt have been ANYWHERE near this long. This is a 2-3 minute scene that's dragged out terribly and feels like it doesn't add up to much in the overall plot. Cooper feels like from the start of Iron's scene to the end he's forgotten about and when we jump back to him it feels like we forget about the other two. It just has difficulty weaving the three stories together and finding the right balance of how to distribute the time amongst each. This should've mainly focused on Cooper & Irons and how a writers work can reflect them as a person. But it feels like that message is lost in a muddled screenplay. I felt like the takeaway was supposed to be you live with your mistakes, don't plagerize, and writers reflect their characters but never knew how to say this in a focused/smooth manner. Than it just ends abruptly it felt like in a very anticlimatic way. The direction here isn't bad but the lighting can be dull a lot of times, and some shotts are better than others. I've seen this stealing other people's work storyline done better honestly in 15-30 minute cartoons and sitcoms. This feels like it's making it overly complicated and it isn't smoothed out anywhere near enough to make it work. Skip This and watch a sitcom episode about stealing someone elses work instead. See more Read all reviews

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