Gosh, where do I begin.... Cosmopolis is a mess. A big, beautiful and very intelligent mess. It is a very difficult film to come to terms with, especially because Cronenberg seems intent on the viewer not liking it at all. He keeps you at a distance and gives you a cold and analytical commentary on the state of the world as we know it. And it works. Well, sort of.

Let's start with the obvious. Pattinson is fine. He has talent and proves himself to be a very capable actor. The character he plays is the owner of a big company that deals with the world of finance. What they do exactly is never clear, but they are definitely big…

I had high hopes for Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis yet I left disappointed ... I think. I’m unsure of my opinion because it is an enigmatic film - it is dense, different and very difficult. Having never read Don DeLillo’s novel I was unsure quite what to expect but I still wasn’t quite expecting this. It is a postmodern Odyssey and a story for and about our times filtered through the eyes of a blank and privileged dick. Despite being confined to a limo that always slowly crawls forward it is a story that is static to the point of being inert. It is an episodic series of verbose conversations that are flatly expressed and stretched out to a near maddening degree.…

This might be the most challenging film I’ve had to review yet, as Cosmopolis is without a doubt one of the most challenging endurances to sit through. But that challenge comes from something that is truly unique, and director David Cronenberg is without argument the master of creating a unique experience.

His most recent exploration into the human psyche is without a doubt his most alienating and criticized film to date, with dialogue that will turn most people off within the first ten minutes. I do believe a lot of this comes from how one’s expectations are upon entering what is the complete opposite of engaging, as this is also his most dialogue-driven film and the dialogue alone is what…

Sometimes you expect you'll like a film going in. Other times you might feel you won't like it. When it comes to Cosmopolis I literally had no idea. The reviews for this film are all over the place. It has to be one of the more polarizing films of the year.

Going by some of the reviews I'd read and a conversation with a friend of mine I knew the film was mostly dialogue, so I knew how much I liked it would depend a lot on how interesting I found the dialogue. Well I gotta say for me listening to Robert Pattinson talk for the majority of the film wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it could be.…

Like with Margaret, Cosmopolis is a film that reveals itself on multiple viewings. When I first saw it I failed to adapt to the film and as with evolution, you adapt or you die.
I still liked it and I admired Cronenberg's audacity for not giving a shit if you followed or even liked the film. My fault was to view the dialogue as an obstacle that lies between me and the plot. I realised too late on my first viewing that the dialogue is the plot.

Watching it again with this mindset I've bumped it up a half star and I was able to relax in the knowledge that not much action was going to happen. I could bask…

Cosmopolis is a film I should love. It's done by David Cronenberg, a director I adore. It has a unique premise and features that dreamy surreal atmosphere that I long for in many films.

And yet, I do not know how I feel about it.

If one thing is true, it's that Cosmopolis is a mess. A big hot beautiful mess. True to the dreamlike tone, things happen without any rhyme or reason, and people talk in short didactic speech and act irrationally. It of course comes with the territory. But there's something off about Cosmopolis, and I'm not entirely sure what it is.

The film consists entirely of Robert Pattinson driving through the city in search for a haircut.…

This is certainly a sad day, I was hoping it wouldn't be the case but I've finally found a Cronenberg film that I don't like. I can sort of see what he was going for but Cosmopolis did absolutely nothing for me, I didn't connect with it on an emotional, visual or narrative level.

My problem with this movie stems from two areas, the first being the plot - there is nothing of substance here and there is barely any story to speak of; a young businessman drives around looking to get his hair cut and experiences some self destructive elements. The meat of the movie is Pattinson's interactions with his various acquaintances and while some are mildly interesting, most…

After being extremely impressed and inspired by The Fly, I was eager to see my second Cronenberg film. This was a bad choice. While it's visually nice, the story is really not even a story. All I could think while watching was, "Whoever wrote this was in love with words. And not in the good way." Because the character conversation are colorful but also so complex and convoluted and artistic that it loses all sense of actual direction or drama in the traditional and necessary sense. Characters also routinely callback or riff on something that was previously said, but not in a clever way like Sorkin, in a way that just comes off as pretentious and overly self-impressed. You can…

From the trailer I was expecting some manner of plot-driven thriller, with our main character being pushed to his breaking point by a confluence of malevolent forces.

Instead we are given an ennui-filled Wall Street financier who is having an extraordinarily bad day, which is almost entirely his own fault. Halfway through I was forced to remind myself that this guy's life has completely unraveled before my eyes, because you wouldn't know it from his relentlessly placid demeanor. Hence I could neither loathe nor sympathize with the main character. I can't blame Pattinson for this, because his portrayal is consistent with that of the other actors and the overall feel of the film. Evidently this was Cronenberg's choice, for what…

This might be the most challenging film I’ve had to review yet, as Cosmopolis is without a doubt one of the most challenging endurances to sit through. But that challenge comes from something that is truly unique, and director David Cronenberg is without argument the master of creating a unique experience.

His most recent exploration into the human psyche is without a doubt his most alienating and criticized film to date, with dialogue that will turn most people off within the first ten minutes. I do believe a lot of this comes from how one’s expectations are upon entering what is the complete opposite of engaging, as this is also his most dialogue-driven film and the dialogue alone is what…