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Don't waste your time on this movie

posted 15 years ago by dallasfan2006
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I love Jada Pinkett Smith, she's very talented. But this movie is the stupidiest movie I've seen since Boogeyman. There are so many plot holes, I don't know where to start.

You never get a straight answer to the question of what the dark secrets are, there are more questions in your mind at the end than when you started watching the movie, Idris Elba's character is completely unnecessary, etc.

No wonder it went straight to DVD, no one would have paid $8.00 to see this movie. Unfortunately, I've wasted $1.06.

[–] groggo 15 years ago

I agree. This film suffers from a terminal lack of credibility. The lead character is so violent that he has trouble controlling his temper beyond five minutes. He fights in public with everyone, is cut, bruised, scarred and wears a bandage on his hand through most of the film. He's seemingly incapable of avoiding social catastrophes with women and everyone else, and yet everyone appears to be relying on him as the prime mover and shaker in a $5 billion merger deal. He's more street thug than corporate superstar, a guy who's so dysfunctional that in the 'real' world would be lucky to have even a meaningless job.

And this is only one of the plot holes that dallasfan2006 mentions above. The whole film is littered with plot holes. Major incidents in the film seem to fade away without explanation.

I think what I really disliked most about this film is its blatant self-importance. It pretended it was saying something profound while it wallowed in its own shallowness.

[–] corky-27 15 years ago

I couldn't have stated it any better. The male lead exhibited psychotic behaviors worthy of people placed in mental institutions. And would it really have been that difficult to explain why his sister was black? (I understand that it's negligibly, if at all, important to the plot of the movie, but it seems as though it's placed there just to provoke. It did nothing but confuse me).

Right. Well, I have to-- I have to go now, Duane, because I, I'm due back on the planet Earth.

[–] moviebuff888 15 years ago

===SPOILERS===

This movie is a piece of crap. It relies on a new face (which serious and renowned actor would've taken this role anyway?), a copy of Penelope Cruz and the accent, long scenes of sex aka more reliance on Vega's body, and a supposedly mysterious obsession with photography and the thrill of a 5-billion deal. And it tries to go into the psychology of human relations, with superfluous quasi-intellectual ramblings on life and trying to develop intrigue with a web of affairs and sex games.

And it fails miserably at everything.
- The acting is very basic, nothing special;
- The sex is just sex;
- All the 'human contracts' and the psycho babble are left without a single result;
- The family card is poorly played, the suicidal mother bitch with serious issues and ridiculous blind faith in God actually wins by getting both of her children back (and if that's SUPPOSED to be the moral of the film than mmmpppppffhhahahahahahaha sucks);
- The photo obsession is painfully obvious from the beginning, the guy is supposedly trying to balance his mental state by taking pictures of sick or disturbing things;
- The 5-billion dollar deal saga is left without an ending;
- There are other plot holes I don't even have the time or the energy to write about here.

It basically comes out as a story of financially successful man with issues. He's got a bad temper, doesn't know what he wants, *beep* around, doesn't give a *beep* about anyone but himself but is at least good at the things he does (work, screwing around, beating people). Nothing more than that.

Then the director wants you to think that he is about to change for the better by making him fall in love for the first time after his divorce, and the whole nine yards which is supposed to come in the package.

But he ends up even more screwed-up than he used to be. He fails in the affair (he had nothing to apologize to the sick cutting-stabbing-herself bitch, he should of just walked away while he still had some pride), fails in the deal (we can only assume it fell through or that he was excluded from it for not being at that meeting), and fails on a personal level by 'going back to his nutty mommy', supposedly 'finding what's been missing in his life'. It's supposed to make him look like a winner, but instead he ends up as one of the worst movie losers ever.

I don't care whether it was well written and then poorly directed or whether it was a piece of dung to begin with, but this movie is not worth seeing. Period. I don't care if Will Smith is your hubby, dear, stay at the stove where you belong.

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'Do you see me?' (Anton Chigurh)

[–] toxina90 15 years ago

LMAO I can barely remember posting here a while ago, but I must have thought it would be good or I might not have bothered, I think I might skip it :X

I own the Jelena Jankovic board

[–] princemarcel 15 years ago

All this hate on the movie make me want to see it more....

[–] jabberttp 13 years ago

And would it really have been that difficult to explain why his sister was black? (I understand that it's negligibly, if at all, important to the plot of the movie, but it seems as though it's placed there just to provoke. It did nothing but confuse me).

Since this seems to be a mystery to you and others, let me 'splain it to. The mother had sex with a white man, and out popped Julian. She then had sex with a black man, and out popped Rita.

Simple, no? And I thought Julian explained at one point that his father died when Julian was only 5? So that would explain why the siblings Julian and Rita had a different father.

I thought it could've been explained, but wasn't really that perplexing. More perplexing was Julian's short temper, basically throughout the movie.

More perplexing was Michael's repeated suicide attempts. And anyone else want to see more of Thalia, Michael's friend in the limo? ;-)

[–] corky-27 13 years ago

Fair enough, but here's my argument. There could have been adoption in the mix, sometime in the past, that may or may not have added to the plot dynamics of the movie. It's been years (it seems) since I've seen this movie, but I still don't remember liking it much, at all. All respect, Corky.

Right. Well, I have to-- I have to go now, Duane, because I, I'm due back on the planet Earth.

[–] enyse 15 years ago

*beep* you dallasfan

[–] dagaul101 13 years ago

I think it was a good movie, sure as with many thrillers there are plot holes that require further explanation, as for example why would Jada Pinkett-Smith's character go back to her abusive husbandSource:Movie Reviews - The Human Contracthttp://moviereviews.noskram.com/2009/09/movie-reviews-for-the-human-co ntract

[–] Desertman84 13 years ago

This is not your typical Hollywood movie.
It is a dark film that would appeal to European movie fans and the Sundance crowd.

[–] kikun302 12 years ago

No wonder Hollywood keeps releasing horrible stupid films.....seems most people can't comprehend a single damn theme.