Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Narjes Alnemer When i watched the trailer i thought the movie is going to be about the relationship of a father and his daughter but i was very wrong, The movie is about a man admitting he's depressed and in need for help.Our man here is Johnny Marco played by Stephen Dorff, is an actor who lives in a hotel away from his divorced wife and his daughter Cleo played by Ellen Fanning. The movie is in three parts each one adding to the character of who Johnny is or rather what Johnny is going through and feeling. The first part shows Johnny watching two strippers in his bedroom and falling asleep, he goes to parties that he clearly isn't enjoying, drinking, doing drugs and having sex all of that without the slightest hint of pleasure. All what seem to be the source of pleasure to people is an act of habit to him, he hooks up with so many beautiful women but it seems like he does it out of need rather than desire. We see how empty his inside is, how colorless is his fame, how uninterested he is in everything that is his life. All of that is obvious through Coppola's stunning directing we see Johnny in the middle of a big room, everything seems to be moving but him, people talk but he doesn't join in, the sounds are always distant and he is not participating in making them.The second part of the film we see him with his daughter Cleo who is spending time with him while her mother is away, their relationship is sweet, it's definitely not the best but they have their moments where they have peace in silence, we only see him active mentally with his daughter. He's not completely present though, he's still depressed but being with a loved one for some quality time is able to bring a very little piece of himself back to life. When they go to Italy together we see them watching Friends in the foreign language, and that shows how out of place they are, he is a stranger to his work and she is a stranger to this life though she seems to be coping with it better than her father. In another scene Johnny is presenting a show in Italian and suddenly women around him start to dance and he's awkwardly standing in the middle, again a stranger to his work. While Cleo laughs and smiles at him, that's where he smiles back opening more to the idea of enjoying things.The third part is where Cleo goes to camp and Johnny tries to tell her something about how he cares for her but it's blocked by the sound of helicopter behind him and he's not brave enough to repeat his feelings and he kind of blames his life for it. Then we see where he loses it, he has been so used to depression for so long that he forgot there's a life beyond that, a life that his daughter reminded him existed. And now for the first time we see him looking for it, calling a friend crying telling her there's nothing to do and struggling with expressing himself, we see Johnny rides to somewhere in despair sick of being depressed. That's where the movie ends showing the whole picture of Johnny Marco's experience. This is how Coppola works, she shows you a bit by bit of this painting that is beautiful but you don't know where it's going or how to feel about it exactly, but in the end you get the whole picture and you're stunned of how meaningful and beautiful it is and leaving you feel like you've been there the whole time seeing how it has been painted.

elainegrant This movie is akin to watching paint dry. We kept waiting for something, anything to happen! LA did look very nice but that wasn't enough to carry this sad, hopeless film. The ending was totally nonsensical and made me mad that I just wasted 90 minutes of my life. Would have been infinitely better had it ended with him picking up his daughter from camp and making a life with her. But I guess no one wanted this loving, beautiful young girl! Instead we get the lead character leaving his car by the side of the road and walking off into the desert. Ridiculous way to end a movie. This could have been a good movie but instead it just sucked!

Cosimo Carmagnini "Somewhere" is, like any other Sofia Coppola's movie, a very delicate exhibition. The plot is not extraordinary, given what matters, what the director really wants to appraise is the atmosphere. An atmosphere full of little details that contribute to create an halo of dream, perhaps even of magic. Which is what most people think to be the life of an actor: magical. On the contrary, Johnny's life is gray, monotonous, full of problems: in a word, ordinary. So the contrast between the dreamlike and the gray atmosphere mirrors the crack between what Johnny's life should be and what it actually is. This never-ending loop is then broken by Cleo, Johnny's daughter, who initially seems to brighten her daddy's life. They talk, they play, they listen to good music. But then life knocks on the door and sadness kicks back in. So what to do at this point? With an extremely magnificent ending, Johnny suggests just to go S O M E W H E R E.

Lilian Larwood (lilian-larwood) I figured that 2 is a funny number to rate a film on IMDb. It ain't the worst thing ever however clearly not the best thing ever. But I don't think that all films should be rated 1 for being truly awful because at least they tried to make something that looks like they went a long way for it. At least that's what I thought about for most films. But again, that is obviously a matter of opinion HOWEVER in Sofia Coppola's 'Somewhere' it is the closest thing I could think of for hating a film which is a rare feeling for me. The laziness of making a film just because her father's got millions astounds me. If she didn't have money (and I mean NOTHING out of it) then the quality would've been the exact same thing.Not only that but I felt that it was painfully boring! My god, the sheer amount of pills I had to take to keep awake has become somewhat routine for me during that hour and a half of nothingness. The only thing I think this film is decent enough for my life is simply using it to GO TO SLEEP. Like play it just before sleepy-time and I would get the best sleep ever! Don't get me started on the characters (but I'm going to anyway). The character of Johnny Marco was dry, dull, boring and was just... nothing to the story. I understand that it was about a Hollywood star with no life (at least that's what I thought it was about) but nobody seemed to care! I felt nothing for the character, no sympathy, no heart-felt moments for him, nothing! The only character with energy was Chris Pontius's character which was great improvising by the way with Cleo as apparently he's good with kids in real life.But going back to my title - how did Sofia Coppola get a budget for making nothing!? Because her dad's super successful and famous. I really don't think that some Coppola's should be in the film-making industry, at least not for Sofia's in that way. Only Francis Ford-Coppola and his many years of realising that he's awesome for making The Godfather etc. Sofia went "I wanna make films" and we're going "Pfft! Sure you can!" (sarcastically). Don't get me wrong I quite liked 'Lost in Translation' as I thought it was sweet and pretty but again, typical Sofia with her dry narrative 'skills'.She had pretty much everything to make this film: Great actors, producers with cash - lots of it, locations, music choice. However he messed it all up with her unimaginative mind and writing on the script which might as well be scwiggly lines. No point whatsoever! A very empty film with a weird beginning, a boring middle and an unsatisfying ending. Either watch it for A: Cause you need to get to sleep, or B: Because you wanna slit your wrists with a blade cause you hate life but you just need that extra push to make you snap and finally do it.