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Manthast Absolutely amazing

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

sergelamarche Foot travel in the mountains of a strange country with a guide. Not your romantic espade! Great bodies in shape, great panoramas, not much of a story though. Another I watched the second half in accelerate. Good if plenty of time.

Andres Salama A Western couple (played by Gael Garcia Bernal, who is actually Mexican and Hani Furstenberg, who is an Israeli) decide to hike in the Caucasus Mountains of the country of Georgia, taking as a guide a local man. The audience can see from the start that the guide is a bit of a screw loose, and that something nasty is going to happen to them, but they seem oblivious to it. I will not reveal more of the plot. I thought that this will be terribly self-indulgent (and many in the audience will feel that) but I find myself surprised in the first half of the movie for liking the film. However, something happens halfway, and the movie takes a wrong turn, not completely, but the second half of the film becomes not very believable and slow and quite a drag. Russian born Julia Loktev (why doesn't she wants to be called by her real name, Yulia Lokteva) directs. The rough outdoor beauty of Georgia certainly helps (I know this is a cliché, but the land really becomes one of the characters of the film).

Nothing_man If 0 was an option The Loneliest Planet would have got it. This is by far the worst film I have ever seen. The first hour is spent in complete boredom waiting for the "incident" to occur, and when it finally does occur its as boring and uneventful and one would imagine. The second hour is equally (if not more) boring where again nothing happens90% of the screen time is taken up by three people walking across the screen, the other 10% is occupied by subtitlesless foreign dialogue and zero plot or character development.Save your money and save your time....Do not see this movieI only wish someone had told me this before i went to see it.

Dave Lucas The Loneliest Planet - The sophomore effort from writer/director Julia Loktev, this film follows a young American couple as they take a trek through the man's ancestral homeland in Georgia (the nation, not the state)'s Caucus mountains. I am unfamiliar with the director's previous effort (2006's Day Night Day Night) but regret to say that The Loneliest Planet did not really inspire me to seek her earlier work out. The problem lies primarily with the screenplay, especially the first hour, which plays more like high quality excerpts from someone's vacation video than like a narrative picture. NOTHING happens. Okay, that's an exaggeration, there are a FEW bits of characterization and foreshadowing that lend to the storyline. However, with a run time of an hour and fifty odd minutes, the movie's first seventy-five could easily have been cut to thirty without detracting from the (minimal) story that the script sets out to tell. Without the lovely cinematography contributed by Inti Briones, the first half of the film would be practically unwatchable.Gael Garcia Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien) and Hani Furstenberg (Yossi and Jagger) do respectable jobs as the vacationing couple, but are not really given enough dialog or activity to really show us what they are capable of. First time actor Bidzina Gujabidze actually outshines them both as their tour guide, his "local color" helping to bridge some of the more debilitatingly slow passages of the film, but even he is fighting an uphill battle. I can appreciate the point of Loktev's story, but it just didn't constitute a two hour movie. It might have made a nice short film...2 1/2 of 5 stars.Review brought to you by www.TheMovieFrog.com