I only made it 30 minutes into this boring movie. Horrible dialog.

This movie was awful. What was going on. Singing was the only decent part of the film. Robert Downey jr was a dirty skeeze pig in this movie and it's no wonder this movie gets bad reviews.

Un'ottima idea e un ottimo cast che non spiccano il volo.

I am embarrassed for everyone involved.

It is entertaining even if you don't always know what is happening. RDJ does look pretty disgusting in this but there is moments when he doesn't. Only thing i didn't enjoy was that they didn't actually have RDJ sing, I feel like they should have.

The Singing Detective was not at all what I expected. It is a film that is all about a writer who is suffering in the hospital and he hallucinates about multiple different stories, which all start converging around him. I’m never all that fond of movies that have no clearly defined rules or proper grounding in reality and this one falls into that a number of times. Occasionally the fantasy makes sense and it is a symptom of his real-life paranoia, but other times it is chaos to the point where I can’t connect the dots. The visions are very random and don’t contain a consistent theme because his mind wanders a lot. I like some of the therapy sequences with Mel Gibson, because that’s when reality seems to be the most important aspect. I also would have been fine if they wanted to spend more time in the world of his book with a detective and gangsters, but that never feels like a priority. The ending makes no sense to me, and I was left scratching my head. I’m sure there are some people who might enjoy this kind of mind-bending exploration of a writer’s damaged psyche, but I was underwhelmed. Also, it was very disappointing that The Singing Detective was a Lip-Syncing Detective through most of the film.

Tiresome and uninvolving adaptation by Dennis Potter of his original 1986 온라인카지노추천 series. A twitchy and often inaudible Downey Jr lies in a hospital bed, deliriously imagining ghosts from his past as noir characters in a murder mystery. Only when he starts psychiatric sessions with Mel Gibson in a bald skullcap does his psoriasis start to heal and the pieces fall into place. But you'll have long since ceased caring. A vanity project par excellence.

While I appreciated the juggling of several different timelines, and didn't even mind the musical interludes, I was mostly dismayed and taken out of this by the fact that the have Robert Downey Jr. (who can sing) lip syncing to the various songs, which just took me out of things a bit too much. Rental? Maybe?

This movie was juggling three movies at once. Almost interesting, definitely off-putting, and at times confusing. I feel there were a lot of loose ends that never got addressed by the end of the movie... mainly, how did Mel Gibson go almost completely unrecognized by me for like five whole minutes? He may be a psychopath, but he was definitely a great actor. Robert Downey Jr. is terrible at lip synching.

Mel and RDJ doing the word association game, brilliant.

On paper, this movie sounds amazing. It's a metaficitonal noir-tinged musical starring Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson? Should be awesome, right? Unfortunately, it's not. The execution is just bad: there's no clear arc to the story or character development, the movie just look sort of cheap, the musical numbers seem to happen more or less at random (and aren't original songs, but lip-synced versions of kitschy 40s and 50s pop songs), and nothing about it really makes much sense. Robert Downey Jr. is entertaining just by default, and Gibson gives a surprisingly restrained performance given that he's made up to look like a crazy person, but that's about it. It's adapted from a 6-hour 온라인카지노추천 miniseries, which I've never seen, and which I suspect probably works better. In this abbreviated form, though, the movie feels slapdash and incomplete. It's an interesting premise that never seems to gel into an actual good movie. Alas.

a big disappointment. more pretentious than clever.

If the director had the ability to catch the spirit of Dennis Potter script using the great talent of Robert Downey Jr. better it would have been a great movie.

Based on the brilliant BBC mini series from 1986, this film remake is just a mess. The story is that of a pulp novelist immobile and delusional because of a crippling skin desease. As he lies in bed he hallucinates and mixes scenes of his novel with scenes of his own childhood. The film is almost impossible to follow, and makes the experience of watching it more annoying. Really, the film ends up looking like a waste of a great concept and a waste of great talent.

I watched this before the British 온라인카지노추천 series expecting something unusual. Well, it's unusual ok...but seems like the wrong sort of people trying to be different and somehow ends up a little too affected for my taste.

Very odd film that you either go along with or you don't. I liked it just enough to find it enjoyable but I can see with ease how someone else could be put off by the eccentricities.

Dark, satisfying and funny. Downey Jr stars in a underrated classic which deals with mental torments and how we sometimes write about ourselves without knowing we are. Gibson and Wright give strong co-performances.

when i first saw this i thought it was horribly miscast but upon re-viewing i realize it is perfect casting and i liked it.

Not a good movie. The film feels very messy, it has several lame musical numbers that aren't even synced and timed correctly. The film underuses R.D. Jr. , but does give a good performance from Mel Gibson and Katie Holmes, strangely enough. Not a film that I would recommend.

The first half is quite tedious to sit through and Robert Downey's diseased face will make your flesh crawl, but it does get much better in the second half. Katie Holmes looks gorgeous in a nurses uniform, but is ultimately miscast. The original British production had knockout Joanne Whalley-Kilmer in the lead, who not only is a better actresss, but plays the 40's siren much more believably than Holmes. Downey is excellent as always, but the entire production plays out in front a rather large shadow cast by the original. Again, be warned, Downey's make-up will have you looking away - and that's not necessarily a good thing. Its just grotesque.