A Guide to Recognising Your Saints on DVD (2006)

A first for me

Joemugg , 28/02/2007

i have been going to the movies now for almost 46 years and in all that time i have never walked out before a movies conclusion until last week when i went to a preview screening of this - i hesitate to call it film !

I lasted 40 minutes watching this ill conceived , badly edited, pretentious pile of crap , 40 minutes of disjointed images,contiual swearing and profanities, i am no prude but i was mightily embarassed at this opus.

Anyone who pays money to see this is crackers and dont rent it sit and watch paint drying its 1000% more entertaining.

I am sorry if i have offended the arty farty reviewers who say this is a brilliant movie but they must have been drunk or on drugs when they sat through this

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Wassa Madda

SteveBent from Tring , 16/11/2007

Eh Wassa Madda yew? Wassa Madda Me? Yea! Wassa Madda Yew? Wassa Madda Me Is Dis Film Here, Dat's Wassa Madda Me! Dis Film Here Is Wassa Madda You? What Choo Deaf? Nah I Aint Deaf. I Jus' Ask Wassa Madda Yew! An' Yew Said 'Dis Film Here Is Wassa Madda... Yeah! Yeah? Yeah!

For two hours...

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Stale

Al80 from Brighton, England [Highly rated reviewer] , 16/08/2007

Personality-free and often downright stupid, this endless binge of hackneyed macho posturing couldn't possibly be more routine. A verbose, inarticulate cypher (Downey Jnr, at his most irritatingly cartoonish) comes back to his old neighbourhood after a decade spent... doing something, somewhere else. The film never bothers to explain where he's been or what he's been doing, except that he's recently written a bestseller about his youthful misadventures. So, intercut with Downey's wistful, teary gulping, are several staggeringly boring sequences depicting them. I'm not even going to attempt to mock just how unambitious this part of the film is. These repellent, poorly sketched deadbeats stand around spouting profane dialogue, (although most of the time, they simply spout profanity in place of dialogue) getting drunk, having their first sexual experiences, falling foul of a local heavy... I'm nodding off just thinking about it. And guess what? Downey returns to find one of them dead, one a drunk, and one in jail. Director Dito Montiel button-pushes like a bereaved Ron Howard, and desperately tries to enliven the film by petulantly (and pointlessly) throwing the sound and visuals off kilter at various dramatic junctures. Hip, yeah? No, just desperate, and deeply boring. Apparantly all of this is autobiographical, but I honestly can't believe that real life can ever be as hackneyed as this. There are three reasons to see this flick; the wonderfully evocative use of authentic period locations, Shia LeBeouf and Martin Compston. These two outstanding young actors give the film a completely undeserved aura of class whenever they're onscreen. They both look set for great things in the future. This though, is pish.

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Blisteringly good

Wee Eck from Ardslignish, north of you , 16/07/2007

Well, according to Joseph McMahon of Paisley and his witty insight, I'm an alcoholic junkie arty-farty for daring to disagree with him and enjoy this film; but at least I can spell my own name correctly.

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Unfathomable

A customer from Kent , 30/08/2007

This is a seriously pretentious film with no semblance of a recognisable plot, or direction. Do not waste your time on it.

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don't waste your time on this one

A customer from Brighton, England , 11/09/2007

i lasted about half an hour before i gave up on this film featuring a gang of potty mouthed teenagers - should've read the reviews first shouldn't i!

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