Great film, with great actors and funny moments

If you can completely suspend belief, you may like the film for its offbeat humor and vibe. However the script is a total mess of careless holes and convenient impossibilities. It quickly left me annoyed at being more clumsily manipulated as an audience member than the "mark" in the film. The annoyance merely built over the long course of the films descent into ever more contrived nonsensical scenarios.

I didn't find it remotely amusing.

The Brothers Bloom is enchanting. The writing is exceptional, performances are whimsical, soundtrack is a stunner, Weisz & Brody have legitimate chemistry, and the big twist actually works. It's a great film that doesn't get nearly enough credit.

Johnsons weakest effort to date is still worth it as lighthearted fluff, though it never reaches the depth of his better movies.

This movie has a little bit of everything. Romance, comedy, drama, and a plot twist. Rachel Weis is also in her best form. Great one!

I did really like this movie but there was something I can’t pin point that kept it from going over the hump into great 3.4. To be honest I really didn’t know what was happening half the movie

Although front loaded, the Brothers Bloom still delivers an enthralling and beautiful caper with bits of hilarity, tension and fantastic characters. The depth of it's writing in both screen play and Emotional intelligence can be spellbinding even if it's uneven.

Brilliant concept, great acting; but so convoluted that you're constantly getting lost.

Bland and unoriginal

A wonderfully told and acted tall tale infused with a smiling, surefooted poetic logic. Felt like reading a good novel, like the Great Gatsby, which knows how to end on the right metaphorical note because the author is all in, living in the vision as a whole.

It's been a long time since I've seen it but I have loved all of his movies besides this one so I really want to rewatch it but my memory tells me it was boring and the story never had me hooked.

Now that I've seen every Rian Johnson film I can say now that maybe a lot of his movies don't work for me as I only really liked Looper (2012) and Knives Out (2019). The Brothers Blooms follows two con men named Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and Bloom (Adrien Brody). Together they've been scamming people since they were kids turning a prophet. One day after a successful con Bloom tells his brother Stephen he wants out. Months go by and Stephen convinces Bloom to do one last con with him. The target is a loner named Penelope who is the heiress to a giant fortune. The plan is for Bloom to interact with her and get her thinking she's in a con, but then the brothers in turn will con her. Have I wrote the word con enough in this synopsis? Things don't turn out the best when Bloom and Penelope actually start developing feelings for each other. So yeah, the movies kinda predictable. I found the first half to have some pacing issues and thought it was really slow. The second half does pick up and I will say it has a satisfying ending. For the most part the movie is trying too hard to be "smart" in a way where it's trying really hard to sound like it has more going on. But, it really doesn't. For the most part it's worth a rent, but I can't see this as a film I jump back into and re-watch anytime soon.

It may be Rian Johnson's weakest film but it's still a really fun film to watch.

A film that gets better and better with every passing year. A superbly heartfelt, creative and loving caper and a tremendously steady-handed sophomore film by Rian Johnson, and maybe my favourite of his films. It's true con is it's a romance and an emotional drama about brothers, and this is aided no end by the unbelievably talented leads slumming it in Wes Anderson-lite, 60's con-movie indie. It's a finely crafted, multilayered movie that appears as a puff of smoke but is really the machinery that goes into making a lovely little movie with my favourite score of all time, and some of the best details, jokes, acting and editing I've ever, ever seen. It's true cinema and made with fervour and clarity and wit and bite. Bring on Knives Out if it's even half as good as this. Perhaps the greatest con of this movie is that it is a con-man film where they win and no one feels good about it. The con is that it's not about the con, it's about the people. So Brothers Bloom is a film that has grown on me to become a true favourite of mine; it went from a deeply unsatisfying con caper to a wet-eyes weeper where every character's journey makes me cry and every moment is laden with depth, humour, warmth, pathos and love. It's not here, like most movies of this ilk, to trick us. It's here to move us. Brody and Ruffalo turn in career bests, I really mean that, the character journeys and the depth of their souls is generous, their dedication palpable. Rachel Weisz plays Wonder Woman, way before it was cool; Her character is progressive; sweet, gentle, pin-sharp, open, nuanced, not naive, and completely unwilling to be led. She's far from the adorkable ideals dreamed up by lesser screenwriters, and yet she is utterly stupefyingly attractive. If Brick proved that director Rian Johnson could make an angsty, complicated film about a barren, journey-less character, Brothers Bloom proves he can make a delightfully funny, open, clear caper with rich character arcs. It's an approachable film and, like its main character, wears its heart on its sleeve. It's unafraid to make difficult, complex characters, flow in and out of light, peppy scenes and deeply dark subtext and sequences. Finally (and I could talk about this film *all day*) it's no mistake that the score, one of the best ever, is made by Rian Johnson's brother. It's so integral, it even has a suite at the start, it is utterly equal to every other aspect of the film, a film about brothers, where Rian, the younger brother of the two, writes a film in true reverence and love to his older brother's role in his life. And I feel that in every moment of it, the use of 60's crime capers and buddy flicks to bolster and reveal a real-life connection in his life. It's magic. I watched this film with my younger brother and when it was finished, I was in tears, and he was ambivalent. "That's because you're the younger brother." I said. "I'm Stephen. And you're Bloom." He didn't care for that. But a few years later he still talks about the time we watched Brothers Bloom together and he remembers loving it deeply and fondly. And so do I.

Oof. It was super hack.

While The Brothers Bloom has some goodies here and there, it's definitely the weakest movie from Rian Johnson. But yeah, I'd say it's good.

I love it! It's one of the best movies I've ever seen, of course, not in theatres as I was really young. It's just, that seeing these characters have such fictional personalities, it really amazes me. How everything was portrayed- I really am speechless but I could go forever and say stuff about the movie that I love. I love the ending, how everything was planned and yet to us, to Bloom, it didn't seem like it was being set in stone. And yet it was? It's just beautiful.

just yuck, dont waste your time

My favorite movie of all time.