SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

ccbo Time to think and reflect, time to ponder. Opportunity to reflect on the darkness of suffering hearts, feeling of misery and love slowly turning into madness - thats how it felt in smokey mountains, a classical greek tragedy, but with entangled stories!

ravenstealsthesun First off, another movie with B. Cooper and J. Lawrence together? Getting kind of played out but that really was not the issue with the movie. Moving on, the script was very awkward, generic, and full of clichés. Several of the outdoor scenarios were highly unrealistic and just plain silly but highly predictable nonetheless. It was a rough draft patched together with half-baked subplots that didn't make a lot of sense and were more of a distraction than adding value. There were a few moments the film got interesting and showed promise, such as the conflict between Bradley's character and his business partner, his conflict about his son with another woman from a past love and his current relationship, but they never developed the real interesting nuggets of the story. The whole time I wondered where the film was taking me to realize there was just really no story here.The acting was stilted and automaton. It was as if Bradley and Jennifer weren't into the roles but did it anyway and wanted to get it over with. Even the animals seemed out of place and not genuine. The directing was poorly executed and the scenes seemed like they were rushed and moved along. The movie just got worse as it climaxed with an attempt at drama that fell flat leaving me with no impact other than waiting for the movie to end.

Predrag I usually write a review only when my opinion drastically differentiates from what I find already contributed - when there's a dire need to tip the scale. And there is one here, to save this incredible film from the lynch mob. This atmospheric dark period romance set in an unusual stage has a lot of human drama to offer. And this is what S. Bier is known at excelling. And pouring it on, which obviously irritates some part of the audience. But it is all done with a lot of taste for timing, with a good and fresh modern editing which disposes of most needless parts of the action and instead rather reserves that time for us to think about it all during the breaks of foggy Smoky Mountains scenery. (Obfuscation plays a leading role here, and this landscape couldn't be a better choice.) Film is layered with appropriately somber music used/mixed with subtlety, and likewise its gorgeous photography has been wonderfully appreciated by the edit which understands its visual potential. This is one of those rare instances where a pattern of hand-held closeups doesn't seem gratuitous, but does manage to bring us closer to the characters. Beside this being the result of the strong characters themselves, it is also a combination of a slower, not-frenetic pace, with a lot of static masters too. While there might be some unbelievable decisions the characters make in this story, we need to remind ourselves that instead of treating this as a negative, these are the emotional extremes we should be welcoming, in an emotional rawness which needs appreciation. At the end, it is an emotional and symbolic theater in which all the elements and symbols have and live to deliver their wonderfully intertwined meanings.

riekondoh-116-326404 The book was so well written, but the movie butchered it. This movie script was apparently just written so everyone could watch these two main actors make out some more. They have zero chemistry here. It's absolutely mind boggling how bad this movie really was.After watching, I thought maybe it should have been billed as some kind of satire. The acting was pathetic, the accents were pathetic and I'm not even sure what the point of the story was. One star for the mountain shots.Read the book if you want a great story. It's one of my favorites. This movie is the epitome of the narcissism that runs rampant in Hollywood. They completely miss the point of the story because they think more Jen Lawrence/Bradley Cooper screen time means more $$$. If you want to watch something tonight there are so many other great choices on this site. Save this one for the dustbin.