The Longest Week

That's right... My husband and I rented this movie as a time killer, not quite sure if it would be a surprise hit, or a total pretentious miss that we often still have fun watching with a greek chorus of mockery and the laughter that ensues from said mockery running steadily between us throughout the film. What I am trying to say is, we are not unintelligent people who do not 'get' the point or the references attempted by the filmakers. We get the nod to 60's French cinema, we get the '"oh woah is me" melancholic apathy of the main character Bateman portrays. What we DON'T get is - what is the point? This could have been a sharp, Woody Allen-esque satire if it had any cojones, but it didn't. We didn't understand if we were supposed to loathe these people (which we pretty much did regardless, so dunno if that's a failure or a triumph to the director/screenwriter?), or if we were supposed to feel some sort of validation when *SPOILER ALERT* (not really...) Bateman "comes of age" as he reaches his tender 42nd year in his over-privileged, under-achieving life... Is it meant to be pathetic or a gleeful, sardonicly humourous moment? That was our issue. Yes, it is easy to loathe the decaying, entitled NYC Upper East Side white aristocracy, but hasn't that been done with a lot more bite in countless other films to much greater success? I had a sneaking feeling that the Bateman and Wilde characters were suppsoed to be somewhat sympathetic, but that wasn't 100% clear either. And, on a final note, who hasn't read "Pride and Predjudice" (especially if you are a female) by the time you reach your late teens? Okay, enough venting, I'm out...

Honestly, in the beginning I thought this movie was going to be awful. And yet I heard a lot of bad things about it. But I watched it all the way through to see if things turned around. And for me they did. I loved the movie. I thought it was funny, and romantic. I mean I don't care what anyone says. I love the way he talks about her. Yes things fall apart in like every movie, but overall. I loved it.

Love all the actors, but the voice over makes me want to run around the room screaming, while the movie fast forwards to the end. Attractive actors, beautiful scenery and photography, literary humor ….. but the voice over is just about unbearable. Still at the end (fast forwarding made the movie about ten minutes long), I found myself smiling because the characters all seemed in a good place.

Love makes you grow up... I appreciate the artistic direction and creation.

Although the cast is decent, the story line is shallow and the acting is just as much. Jason Bateman is meant to play a roll of a detached, grown up "rich kid" but seems to have detached a little too much. The "iconic" style of the director seemed more like a try at the iconic style of Wes Anderson.

This movie was terribly boring. I do not recommend watching it.

I love movies about pretentious educated people having issues. I’m pretty vapid, so 5 stars.

This movie makes no sense, it is pseudo-intellectual and without any orientation in the narrative, action or humor. What a waste of time!

I liked the actors. However, there was ZERO to like otherwise. Rich person becomes slightly less rich for all of 7 days, barely has to deal with it because he just puts everything "on the house bill", and stays at other well-off people's houses. Um, WOAH how did you live through the struggle?! Then he "falls in love" - for a week… Then promptly returns to his old life, having learned (despite what the narrator says) NOTHING. Nothing terribly funny or interesting happens to any of these unlikable characters. Everyone is a privileged oblivious white person who pretends to know of the world because they read (even the model lives in an impossibly large flat with no roommates so we know she's rich too), and at that, they read common novels everyone reads. Not that much to be proud of you guys, everyone has read Sense and Sensibility for petes sake.

I love Jason Bateman and had high hopes for this movie. Had a 2.5 hour flight and high hopes for great entertainment while in flight. What a disappointment. Absolutely nothing to enjoy about it. Not a comedy. Not a romance. Nothing to think about. Nothing redeeming about this movie. Don't waste your time or money. If it had been a movie theater, I'd have walked out.