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Harvey Keitel is no good in this, but its brief. Aside from that and maybe a few other goofy things that if you question too hard it ruins everything... this movie rules.

I read Lem's SciFi masterpiece long ago and admired it greatly. This mishmash of live action and boring animation does the book a great disservice. Some fine acting talent is wasted is this debacle. My wife made us watch it until the end, which I thought would never arrive.

The film has some great and original concepts about the future of imagery and society but doesn't really develop them or the characters clearly enough. Honestly for this to have worked and be truly immersive, the whole thing would need to be around 4 hours long.

The first half of this movie was pretty good but left me thinking "what are they going to do in the second half". Well, they decided to ruin the movie with animated, drug-induced bullshit.

Robin Wright, as Robin Wright is an aging actress who is coerced into signing contract to own her complete digital likeness and presents so movies can be made without her using AI. She also has a son and daughter. She goes about her life after signing her likeness away, then a new technology comes along, making AI movies, irrelevant. Basically, then if people take drugs, they can be an experience anything so she is now going to be marketed as a drug. She goes to the Congress and becomes animated and stuck in an animation. It's pretty trippy and weird, then later is frozen and 40 years past. Eventually, she finds a way to become an animated to go back to a world, which is basically medicated, homeless people shuffling around , ultimately, she finds a way to find her son and it is pretty touching and I think I actually shut a tear at one point. I thought this was incredibly relevant today on the topic of AI and also very thought-provoking. The zombification of humanity through endless entertainment. This movie had a pretty profound effect on me and what made me want to go outside and being nature and daylight and live free of digital and screen stuff so I took a spiritual screen cleanse immediately after this movie for several days.

If you don't like movies that have underlying meaning and require some thought, then you won't like this. It's somewhat complex and very unusual and I think could've been really spectacular but there were certain aspects that fell a bit flat and ended up conflating the themes it was trying to get across. The movie presents themes of corporatization of storytelling, the corruption of commercialism, the development and growth of power in the entertainment industry, the influence and negative effect of social media on consumerism and identity, all presented in a unique way. Unfortunately, this movie doesn't quite get the messages across as well as it could have. I think some people might find some of the purpose lost in the trippy animation. I like Robin Wright as an actor, I'm just not sure she was the best actor for this role, she doesn't necessarily have the widest range, particularly when it comes to emotion—she's great in melancholy parts (and there's a lot here), but outside of those her character just isn't always believable. It's a cool premise, just not executed all that well.

I regretfully report that this is not the highly meta and thought-provoking sci-fi Robin Wright vehicle I was expecting. The first half of the opening act is wonderful and almost could be a satisfying short film on it's own.

The boundary between form and identity becomes too entangled to begin to grasp the profound questions it raises. Every layer has another layer beneath it, and peeling them away from scene to scene seemed like a delaying tactic to reach the bottom. The chaos became a tedious distraction until I just didn't care where I was anymore. There was rarely a moment that I could invest in.

It's definitely unique. But wow does it take itself way too seriously. The jumble of ideas from actors being replaceable puppets, to chemical dependency, "what is reality", and the metaphor of "the other side" (as the movie calls it) is just far too messy.

I'm a Robin Wright fan, but The Congress' gloopy animation diminishes the story of her aging and desire to be immortalized.

Bleak vision on a future world where personal choice gets erased starting from a focus on Hollywood's objectification of women in particular. Powerful performance by Robin Wright

The first part is GREAT especially Kietel ripping Robin. "You were a princess at 24 and America loved you. You marry that idiot. You're an American, a Texan not from some town Crap Station Australia where it was a day's walk to go to a theatre. Then the digital and cartoons starts & it all goes weird. Funny scene as Robin is on a the bomb (Slim Pickins role) and rides it down in Kubric's masterpiece "Dr. Strangelove"

Just... Huh? I don't get it.

This futuristic sci-fi movie is complex and mind juggling, whilst diving into how technology is ever changing. Its commentary on the corruption of increasingly advanced technology reminds one of films like Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. I love the fact that I was paying close attention and super engaged in order to catch every detail of this vivid complex world and the fascinating storyline. The story follows the digitalization of aging actress Robin Wright, and how signing up for her final acting job has consequences that will affect her in ways no one would have considered. This animated sci-fi uses a bright and exciting colour palette that is equal parts captures both a trippy and thought-provoking film. The ending left me replaying scenes in my mind after ingeniously blurring the line between reality and illusion.

This is the worst movie ever made in the history of movies. This movie exhausts it's flimsy plot in the first 15 minutes and then nonsensical things happen randomly until the film ends. Except this film doesn't have an ending per se.. it just ends. You could literally do anything else and it would be a better use of your time.

This film is a beautiful and heartbreaking tale about aging in the world of fame. The films proposed conception of making movie stars into a unit makes the viewer realize how much this story relates to the reality many feel when they sign a contract into stardom. The film's blending of reality and animation also brings attention to the possible pitfalls of drug addiction and how one can lose touch with reality when they avoid facing their addiction. Robin Wright is amazing in this, bringing emotion to each scene as she goes from superstar to the face of a revolution that she hates. She shows how a person's love for their child can be the driving force in keeping their sanity, and the film is a reminder that the ones who love you are the people that will go the limit for you. It's an amazing film that highlights Hollywood's corruption, dependency, & the loss of humanity we face in this world, and I can't wait to watch it again.

Why do people make films? To entertain us is the most obvious answer. But some films are made to educate us. Some great films inspire us to envision and create a better world. And then there are films made simply to rake in cash, films with no intelligence or humanity, like The Transformers franchise or almost anything starring Adam Sandler. And to support this bottom line of greed, a new reason for making films has emerged: to anesthetize us. In The Congress, a performer named Robin Wright is played by Robin Wright. She's offered a very unusual contract by a "Miramount" studio executive (played with oily perfection by Danny Huston). After giving Wright an obscene amount of money, Miramount will use advanced technology to scan her image with such precision that they she never needs to appear on a film set. Miramount owns her likeness as a performer, and can do anything with it — while she is not allowed to perform on film or even in public herself. Robin Wright the human being is no longer an actor, while Robin Wright the actor is now computer code owned by Miramount. Twenty years later, she has aged most gracefully. But her computer likeness is ever youthful, appearing as a kick-ass Matrix-like superhero. It makes no matter that the flesh-and-blood Robin Wright is actually far more beautiful and interesting than her computer likeness. That is of no value to a film studio looking for the next profitable action franchise. In this future, Wright is invited to a convention or "congress" at Miramount. But before entering the property, she is required to inhale a drug that causes her to see everything as a brightly-colored cartoon. (Imagine an LSD trip as illustrated by Max Fleischer.) This makes it hard to know exactly what's real, and that's the point. In this bright, shiny cartoon world, Hollywood has joined forces with the pharmaceutical industry to ensure the masses are less and less in touch with reality. They are obedient consumers. As Wright says at the congress after storming the stage and grabbing the microphone away from a speaker: "Wake up, people. Wake up." The Congress is based on the 1971 novel The Futurological Congress by Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem.

Pretentious and shallow. They manage to make the great Harvey Keitel look like an animated character in Frozen. The ice. One cliche after another. What happened ? Did the director quit and the Transpo guy finished the movie?

A dense, slow movie, but it really pays for your patience. If you love that kind of Rogger Rabbit thing of mixing life action with 2D animation as much as me you´ll love the hell of this film