Absolutely a strange thing this is. Somehow it makes sense. Just love the moxie to make this thing. It''l be an artifact for sure as Dylan will be.

A Collage worth watching several times. It's fun and inventive.

As a Dylan fan, especially of his Time Out of Mind/Love and Theft/Modern Times period, I'm glad I watched this. Otherwise, it's skippable. The Time Out Of Mind songs in use are sublime. I also enjoyed the star studded cameos, and Jeff Bridges is always a sight to behold. I also loved the production design, this unnamed, presumably fictional war torn country in which this takes place could have been a Terry Gilliam creation. Come to think of it, in Gilliam's hands this could have been a reasonably enjoyable movie. Otherwise, it was impossible to follow, the writing tiresome, and then ending nonsensical. But Dylan completists, enjoy!

Put me out of my misery. Bob Dylan fans, get in line. But if your ears work like mine, you'll realize he can't sing or act and this movie is about as dumb as they come.

Typically, against the flow, I rather liked this. Mad and clearly flawed, but fun, unusual and some great people and cameos.

I think that the critics who pan this have absolutely no idea of art. Bob Dylan is an artist folks and this movie is one of his masterpieces

Perfect, like any other Bob Dylan song.

A convoluted mess of ideas, that basically seems to serve Bob Dylan's ego in an attempt to further mythologize himself. His performances on stage though are pretty awesome, as expected. There's a shocking amount of cameos from incredible actors, but it all amounts to very little...

Bob Dylan can not act anywhere near enough to give him this much focus.

Incredible visual representation of Dylan's work

"You gotta be born on my side"

I did not find it unintelligible at all. Itï¿ 1/2 1/2(TM)s a surreal movie, not meant to be taken as a realistic movie. Itï¿ 1/2 1/2(TM)s greatness as a film equals the greatness of Bob Dylanï¿ 1/2 1/2(TM)s best songs.

Star-studded misfire.

A series of fascinating vignettes strung together to make a compelling story

Very Dylan-esk. Lots of cameos. Worth it for Dylan fans and lovers of something different.

Yes a terrible movie but slightly, ever so slightly, redeemed by all the star cameos. Whoever decided Bob Dylan should be the star of this inexplicable film deserves the Plan 9 from Outer Space award. I actually have watched it more than once just to see if I missed anything that might have explained what was going on or what social/political statements were being subliminally made. There are none.

Two hours of my life I'll never get back. The soundtrack is good if you're a Dylan fan.

Jeff Bridges, John Goodman AND Bob Dylan for fuck's sake! What more could you possibly want? As it turns out, a whole heck of a lot. This was a misstep.

gr8 cast strange but very interesting

SPOILER ALERT! The hell? Masked and Anonymous is about a worn down musical manager (John Goodman) putting on a benefit concert in order to get his fictional country out of a civil war/dictatorship. His singer is a washed up forgotten legend man named Jack Fate (Bob Dylan.) A reporter against the dictatorship (Jeff Bridges) pelt Jack Fate with questions about his view on the dictatorship in order to influence other people about ending the tyranny of their country. The only reason this film got any stars is because of John Goodman and Jeff Bridges' exceptional performances. Everything else.....sucked. Bob Dylan, now around 60 when the movie was filmed couldn't sing nor hold a tune. He couldn't act. He had the same facial expression throughout the whole film. If a face is like a symphony, Bob's face was just one note. He was not enthusiastic at all and when acted, sounded like he was in a middle school film club movie. When Dylan played at a little bar, (this was his re-discovery scene), he was singing like he had just smoked a few thousand packs. He was basically croaking. The audience members at the bar were drinking and talking to each other, when Jack Fate started to sing they were moved and in awe of this "croaky" sound. The hell? If I ever hear this from a singer at a bar, I wouldn't start crying because his voice was an inspiration, I'd start crying because I would think he was dying. Later in the film, Fate has a meltdown and pretty much runs away for a while. While sitting on a set of stairs, to "find himself" per se, a white man wearing black face appeared on the top of the steps. The hell? He just randomly gives Jack advice and goes away. On the commentary, this was supposed to be a metaphor or symbolic to the random things that happened in Fate's life, but to be honest with you, I was cracking up. It wasn't symbolic, it was just plain stupid. Nearing the end of the film, John Goodman, who is an alcoholic but it never gets talked about in the film, he is just always drinking, is almost killed by Bridges, for no reason, and later, Bridges gets killed by Fate's friend, for no reason. The hell? Fate gets blamed for it, for no reason, and goes to jail. Yeah, the film sucked.