BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

esther70 This movie could be great if the screen time is longer but with the current runtime of less than 90 minutes, there is just not enough time to cover the kidnap of Mark's daughter and the mental illness of Charles. We ended up with a lot of scenes that seems irrelevant and unresolved loose ends. The movie started promising with Mark's daughter gone missing. Charles came along and I thought his connections would help in the search. Nothing happened. Then the focus shifted to Charles's mental illness. but his plot has nothing to do with Mark's loss. Charles plotline just disrupted the mood & pacing of the movie. Another weird plot is that Mark thought the had been to the pub before he has been born. What's the point adding this 'supernatural' vibe? And the wife hides the pregnancy from Mark seems like a missed opportunity in describing the couple's road to reconciliation. The movie just feels rushed and unfocused.Benedict is also a bit disappointing. He is phenomenal in Patrick Melrose but he is not up to his normal standard here. I can't feel his grief or loss but that might be partly due to the confusing plot making it difficult to immerse in the emotions. His performance paled in comparison with Lee Pace and Carrie Coon in 'the Keeping Hours', which is another recent movie on loss of a young child. I highly recommend this latter title if you like romantic tragedy.

gayanna So surprised at the negative reviews, but certainly art is always a matter of personal taste. I found the story beautifully done, loved the characters and appreciated the various ways the title was interpreted in the intersecting storylines. I truly enjoyed everything about this film.

kirstywalters77 I never write reviews on here but for god sake, these 'people' apparently had a child abducted(or whatever) No emotion, no good connection between Cumberbatch and McDonald! Offensive to those who have lost children and as another reviewer commented, they may as well of lost a dog or cat... pathetic, offensive and please if you have lost a child, don't bloody watch it it!!!!!! No police, no real investigation... posters?! disgrace!

ianlouisiana to wring their hands to and "Cumberbitches" to weep over. This is a deadly serious subject reduced to a sub - Pinteresque exercise in clever - cleverness with stilted dialogue and performances straight from "The Serious Actors Guide to Populist Telly". Our hero(the never knowingly underacted Mr B.Cumberbatch) loses his daughter in a Supermarket(one can imagine what fun Lady Bracknell would have had with that)and,as often happens in real life ,his marriage falls apart.Hang on to that thought - the one about real - life because it's the only brush with it that "The child in time" has. We have smug upper middle class parents and their smug upper middle class chums,equally smug grandparents all terribly stiff upper lip when a good old - fashioned ruck would do them all a world of good but of course they are all so frightfully well brought up and stiff necked that there is no possibility of anything but terribly civilised behaviour except from Mr Cumberbatch's best chum who reverts to being a very keen boy scout and goes to live in the woods at the back of his terrible nice house before hanging himself ,possibly unable to get over his crush on Brown Owl. Cue for Mr Cumberbatch's lip to quiver as he delivers a funeral eulogy. I won't reveal the ending but it signals itself like the arrival of the 6.45 Virgin Intercity 125 from Manchester Piccadilly. By then I'd quite forgotten the poor little mite who had gone missing in the first reel.