Freedomland Reviews

Awesome!

Jackson is one of my favourite actors and Freedomland reveals why. Class acting and a plot with some nice twists make this a cracking movie.

Decide for yourself

This film is a case in point that you should do not be put off by negative reviews - watch and decide for yourself. When I saw that this film was on it's way to me I read the reviews and thought - 'oh no, this is gonna be rubbish'. Just goes to show though that everyone's taste is different, as I enjoyed this film. Good acting from Samuel L Jackson and Julianne Moore - the story is not boring and kept me interested throughout. I do not agree that you do not end up feeling for the characters - there is a real human touch to this film. Rent it and decide for yourself is my advice. Granted, it's not the best film I've ever seen but I would give it a strong three out of five - I've seen a lot worse.

Slow and boring

The first 20 minutes or so gets you interested, but from that point on the whole drags on while you steadily lose interest in the outcome of the plot. Very disappointing considering the lead actors.

Interesting

This is a pretty good film that explores a number of interesting Themes. It loses it's way somewhere in the middle, when a rather contrived search scene that passes on some important information seems overblown, but it regains it's momentum towards the end due to some wonderful performances by the actors. Well worth a watch in my opinion.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Freedomland

What happened to Julianne Moore? A run of performances from Boogie Nights to Far From Heaven saw some, myself included, talking her up as the finest actress of her generation and then... The Forgotten (aptly titled), Laws of Attraction and now Freedomland.

Freedomland is a dull mystery with a solution so obvious and so deathly dull that even if the finding of that solution were better told this would still be a bad film.

What really drops it into the doldrums though is the direction. Joe Roth has little idea how to tell a story like this, his main detective character (Samuel L Jackson) does sod all detecting, his handling of the race issue is both broad and ham fisted and his visuals are as pathetically cliche as his cutting. Chief among Roth's crimes though is his directon of his fine cast. Samuel L Jackson plays Samuel L Jackson only this time he's got a hat. Roth's direction appears to extend as far as 'shout this bit' though, to be fair, 'Kiss my ass Brother-f**ker' is vintage cursing from Jackson. Moore is handled even worse. She can do hysterical (see Magnolia) but here Roth has clearly just said 'Bigger' to her each and every take until her performance is so shrill and annoying that it's like a pneumatic drill working away in your brain.

Edie Falco is better but her character is monumentally pointless, eventually doing little more than telling Jackson what he already knows.

This is a boring muddled film but with Falco and an excellent, sadly brief, supporting turn from William Forsythe it just avoids a bottom grade.

dont bother awful film not worth watching

no no no no no no no no no

samuel l crapson

this starts off so well and has the making of a great film and then it all goes t*ts up and turns in to absoulute sh*t so close but so very far away from being a descent film PANTS WITH KACK IN UM thats this film

freedomland

all i can say is'RUBBISH'

Rubbish

I don't ususally write reviews but this film was so bad that I thought I should warn other people so they didn't waste their time watching it. It is truely awful

[Highly rated reviewer]

Disappointed

The title promised more. The outcome was surprising but I wanted something different from the title. I am a fan of Coen and Lars Von Triers (sic) and the director of The Village.

So my taste was unsatisfied. I am not saying that it was a bad film but I did feel as though I was being pulled in different directions.