LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Madeleine Longtin From the start, it was evident that Being Flynn was trying to achieve a certain status - it wanted to be a compelling drama highlighting the lives of a father and his son, both struggling with different aspects of their lives. However, it fell short in more ways than one.The cast was brilliant as Robert de Niro and Paul Dano were both dedicated to their roles and gave their best effort. Unfortunately, the characters were difficult to relate to as they continued to make poor decisions without any clear reason as to why they were making those choices. This made them both unlikeable and therefore I began to lose interest rather early on in the outcome of their situation.In addition, the plot left me feeling entirely unsatisfied. The development of the story was quite slow and I can't indicate any particular moment that served as a clear turning point. It was as if the viewer was only seeing glimpses but was never provided with the entire picture. Very frustrating indeed.I have no temptation to see this film in the future nor would I recommend it to others. Unless of course you are a die-hard Robert de Niro fan who is able to look past the weak plot in order to appreciate his acting.

KineticSeoul This is like a realistic portrayal of father and son bonding movie. Except it goes a bit too realistic to make it moving or touching for that matter. I mean it's difficult to see how the bonding can be difficult if the father leaves the family for 18yr without any good reason. But there just wasn't enough intimate moments between the father and the son, maybe just one scene that stood out. And the father Jonathan Flynn(Rober De Niro) is a conceited and detestable guy, he is also a racist. Not a extreme one but still a racist. Anyways he is a failed writer that is fool of himself and has nothing else to do but look down upon society and the people. While his son(Paul Dano) who also wants to be a writer has his life spiraling downward because he feels like nothing and because of his past scars. So he decides to work in a homeless shelter where he meets his father. The movie however lacked the bonding elements and just has the two characters having different perspectives and living different lifestyles although they are both struggling. Like how one is a alcoholic and the other a drug addict. Despite their differences there is one intimate moment between them that really stands out. And it's a shame there isn't more of those scenes in this movie. Paul Dano is good but Robert De Niro is magnificent and he pulls off a character that is detestable but you can't have that much hatred for the guy. It's nice to see De Niro at the top of his game again but the movie as a whole just isn't all that good nor does it pull on the heartstrings all that much.6/10

bob-rutzel-1 Nick (Paul Dano) works in a homeless shelter and sees Jonathan Flynn (Robert DeNiro), his father there. He hasn't seen his father for 18 years. Based upon a true story.This is the type of story whereby the main character, Nick, had a disturbing childhood and decided to write about it and now we have the movie. Both Nick and Jonathan have the writing bug.We see Nick go through many of these disturbing events: was told his father was in prison and upon release abandoned the family, the many boyfriends of the mother (Julianne Moore), the death of his hard working mother, seeing his father in the homeless shelter, drinking and getting into drugs, the hard stuff. The acting performances all around are very good. Nick's father is con man without game, and thinks extremely highly of himself. It would have been too easy to feel sympathy for the father if he didn't tout himself as a writing genius (without portfolio) at every turn. But, keep in mind, his situation and deep down you feel Jonathan knows his condition, but outwardly refuses to succumb to it and claims he is a survivor.Sometimes this is hard to watch because we don't like seeing people in the homeless shelter in these circumstances, but if we look outside our comfortable world, we will see real tragedy, people with no hope and who are just trying to make it one more day. I would have thought that Nick would have been more caring, but he endures the father from a distance, something not lost on the father. His big fear is that he will become his father. However, maybe this was the way it really was. With these true stories we are really never sure how it was back then. I am so glad that Robert DeNiro has abandoned the so-called "comedies" he had been associated with as I never found him convincing or funny in them. In here, Mr. DeNiro is on his game and if you look into his character's eyes you will see the bottom. Yes, there may be an Oscar for him, but since the movie has not gotten wide appeal, this may be lost as his was truly a class A performance, and deserving of an Oscar.The ending is okay, kind of bland but tells us hope is alive. (7/10)Violence: Yes. Sex: Yes. Nudity: Yes, male backsides. Language: A lot in the beginning, then it left us (includes f-bombs)

tomasz42 Mr. DeNiro, I review movies by addressing a person involved. This is a first. You are the man. It is Your snake film.Here is what it meant to me. Some ten years ago I read about the ruins down south, how the two civilizations united their galactic mythologies. It seemed convincing, an exact orbital extrapolation corresponding with the centre in exactly 2002, Hendaye, France. Leaving the Earth out of this, I remember thinking about Christmas Eve, and all the magic my parents entertained uniquely around that time, thinking how much longer that would take with the illusion, about seventy years a degree would give St. Nick another 200 years or so, no end to the miracle.With respect to just us men, there is this idea I came across only yesterday, in a way You may agree could not be more appropriate, however childish [ BearPublishing ]. It is the idea of a "Guardian of the Threshold". Having thoroughly smoothed this bump over myself with Neil's metaphysical bulldozer and (more recently) a rationalization of my having destroyed the Venus pattern (do not think about it that way), I want to sincerely congratulate You on my awesome interpretation of Your offering the Soul with this, to the Catholic Church to possibly brainwash and transform the Priesthood with. What I want to point out at large is the virtue of Steiner's mental gymnastics about the "etheric body", especially those "warmth eggs on Saturn" he went on about. What is happening with this whole ExpectoPatronum is realistically a final necessary inflection of collective consciousness towards normal liberation, like humours crusting away the clown. I do not mean consciousness like Jung did, rather in a way of shared sensory pattern.PooYing, Tomasz Kapler