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Director Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Last Days) returns with the highly anticipated film Paranoid Park. This adaptation of Blake Nelson's novel, follows 16-year-old skateboarder Alex, who accidentally kills a security guard outside Paranoid Park, Portland's most famous skateboarding park. When he decides to say nothing, he takes on .. Read more

Starring	Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller
Director	Gus Van Sant
Genres	Drama

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  - 14
  Rubbish..
  
  terrible, terrible movie. couldn't take it seriously at any point. poorly acted by non-actors and a pretentious piece of utter crap...
  
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  - 4 reviews
  - Norwich
  - 28 Apr 2008 at 19:11
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  Boring and terribly acted
  
  This film is terrible, the acting is awful the lead actor reads his lines like he is reading them off a slow defective autocue, the lead actor gives his ... read more »
  
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  - Nottingham, England
  - 22 Nov 2011 at 04:02
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  Slow slow slow
  
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  Fast forward the musically bits and the no sound bits and you might get some interesting story out of it, bit don't expect any ending for this.
  
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  - Chantal
  - 1037 reviews
  - London
  - 14 Nov 2011 at 23:30
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  Half-pipe Dostoevsky
  
  What is interesting in this film is the technology that allowed the filming of some remarkable skate-boarding scenes - montages shown in slow motion for maximum... read more »
  
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- - Stephen
  - North Cornelly, South Wales
  - 30 May 2011 at 16:32
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  Not His Best
  
  As much as I admire Van sant's ability to mix his films-high/low budget-I couldn't really enjoy this much at all. There are moments but ultimately there... read more »
  
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- - Ell1981
  - 169 reviews
  - London
  - 01 Oct 2010 at 16:48
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  paranoid park
  
  i shouldnt have watched gus van sants 'elephant' before wathing any of his other films as the dont impress me as much. but i know they are still good [... read more »
  
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- - buffyrules
  - 202 reviews
  - southend on sea
  - 06 Sep 2010 at 18:54
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  Worth a watch
  
  It was an okay film.
  
  I think I got what Gus Van Sant was aiming towards. I enjoyed the slow dreamy sequences, I'm guessing it was supposed to ... read more »
  
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  - Dundee
  - 03 Jun 2010 at 21:10
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  slice of life, Gus van Sant style
  
  Skater kids? Check. Gritty Northwestern urban setting? Check. (Mostly) amateur cast? Check. Difficult choices with no clear moral stance? Check. It's ... read more »
  
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- - rpopper65
  - 151 reviews
  - London
  - 05 Feb 2010 at 18:07
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  Just okay
  
  This film was interesting but the acting failed to captivate me. I was slightly disappointed with the lack of action or intesity, the main character did not ... read more »
  
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  - Sutton Coldfield
  - 07 Sep 2009 at 15:17
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  8 word review
  
  Eight word review has almost as much dialogue.
  
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- - Eights
  - 6 reviews
  - London
  - 28 Aug 2009 at 21:14
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  Paranoid Park - My Review
  
  I was just settling down to enjoy this film. Then it finished. Beautifully shot and quite mesmerising but Elephant and Gerry make this look like the ... read more »
  
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  - 18 Aug 2009 at 14:29
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  - 14
  Rubbish..
  
  terrible, terrible movie. couldn't take it seriously at any point. poorly acted by non-actors and a pretentious piece of utter crap...
  
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  - TylerDurden91
  - 4 reviews
  - Norwich
  - 28 Apr 2008 at 19:11
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  - 3
  Pointless
  
  This has to be the worst film i have ever seen,pointless and annoying, especially with the yob culture today.
  
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  - Manchester
  - 09 May 2008 at 10:29
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  Erm, No!!
  
  Well, I am sure that someone once said that if you don't like a film in the first 10 minutes then you wont like it. The first 10 minutes of this film was ... read more »
  
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- - Alexb
  - 6 reviews
  - Colchester
  - 24 May 2008 at 22:52
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  Boring
  
  Extremely dull - lost interest after 50 mins.
  
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  - Blackpool
  - 15 May 2008 at 17:31
- - 8
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  requires a brain to watch!
  
  This film has a great concept, great acting and is beautifully shot. It is an amazing film... the only problem is that it is quite slow. This is obviously the ... read more »
  
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- - zombiejen
  - 4 reviews
  - Norwich
  - 08 Jun 2008 at 09:02
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  You're all wrong.
  
  The reason for this film is simply not to just be entertaining (which despite the reviews before me i found to be very entertaining) it is a film in which the ... read more »
  
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  - Manchester
  - 11 Dec 2008 at 20:27
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  yawn
  
  This film is very very boring, you can read the synopsis and get all you need as to what actually happens, tries to be art house with slowing down and speeding ... read more »
  
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- - r0w4n
  - 6 reviews
  - Truro
  - 01 Aug 2008 at 12:35
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  - 0
  paranoid park
  
  What a load of rubbish, I have never seen such a crap film as this one. The story is so slow we turned it off after 15mins. Dont watch it!
  
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- - mwh
  - 3 reviews
  - Darlington
  - 30 Jun 2008 at 19:58
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  Entertaining mystery about skateboarder
  
  This movie seemed like it was going to be interesting because of its mystery and original setting and the fact that Gus Van Zant directed it.
  
  It ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Essex
  - 08 Aug 2008 at 18:53
- - 4
  - 0
  Very poor
  
  There was not a single redeeming feature about this film. I was recommended it by a skateboarding artist friend of mine. The skateboarding was secondary to the ... read more »
  
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  - Petersfield
  - 30 Aug 2008 at 20:51

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  While Gus Van Sant's PARANOID PARK is in keeping with the atmospheric work of the films in his previous 'death trilogy' (GERRY, ELEPHANT, LAST DAYS), this time around he's working from a more conventional narrative to capture the awkwardness and pressures of adolescence. The result is a work of ...

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  Director Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Last Days) returns with the highly anticipated film Paranoid Park. This adaptation of Blake Nelson's novel, follows 16-year-old skateboarder Alex, who accidentally kills a security guard outside Paranoid Park, Portland's most famous skateboarding park. When he ...