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I was looking forward for this for quite some time(you can read it as: forever). A crime drama with Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini(plus Noomi Rapace)? Fack yeah! I watched it yesterday and I'm not disappointed. It's a great pic.

The movie starts with Bob Saginowski(Tom Hardy) monologue on the bar he works and how crime is involved with it. The shots are really riveting and dynamic and like the bar itself. Then we get to see that the bar is robbed, making the owners of the money confront Cousin Marv(James Gandolfini, rest in peace master)and Saginowski. And from this point on the plot makes the pace become really slow and dense, there's a lot of character development... and as well some unnecessary takes. The first act is really well developed, we get to see how well the actors are, making these characters really intense. The second act have us guessing and trying to find clichés on the plot... But the movie manages to escape crime movie's stupid paradigms. And the third act is really amazing, the catharsis is really well executed.

The soundtrack is interesting. Silence is a priority on the movie, but when the score hits... It's well done.

Cinematography is really unconventional as well... It gets to you with the gray and cold feel. The streets are so strangely aware of the indelicate sound of crime. It really adds substance to the tone of the movie.

The acting is something that bothered me... The mob characters had great impact on the plot, but they're acts are so black and white... You can tell too easily who they are, and there comes the influence of other pics of the genre to this one. Except for Marv and Bob and the detective... The other characters didn't convince me, I felt it lacked substance... Maybe a little bit of poetry to their composition. Depise this fact, Hardy is really subtle... Well constructed and driven, we can tell his character had a dark past, and that's what makes him so calm. Sometimes you think his inept to that world. And Gandolfini, such intense acting... That man had acting chops... I can't believe this is the last time we'll see new work from him, it's sad.

Great pic with a concrete storytelling... Interesting directorial work and amazing acting by the protagonists. I really wish it was more, there's was so much potential, there are moments that I felt it was too simplistic. One of the best pictures of the year and the plot dissolution is still in my head... Really awesome.

Completely worth watching.

When I first read the synopsis, I thought it would be an action movie, 'I, Robot', or something like that. But I was wrong... and I'm glad of it.

At first we have a brief explanation about what happened to earth(as we know it) and the robots protocols, but we understand it quite well, as it is very simple and objective... The movie begins with a scene that is a real punch in the face, and we get to see how the movie has a subjective plot. Then we face the fact that those protocols ain't working like they should... And there you are... Embarking with our protagonist, Jacq(Antonio Bandeiras), in a journey for answers. Those answers can be about the robots, as well as it can about us... So called human.

The movie has a slow pace and it develops in a different way than the average thrillers does... We watch a bunch of fight scenes and gunshots, but it ain't the point of the movie, those are consequences of the journey itself.

The score is for times absent, but it doesn't make it bad... When we hear it is great, it gives the movie so much heart... It's incredible.

The acting isn't so great... You can doubt the characters frequently, as you can't relate to them frequently, as well, and it's completely understandable.

At the end there's this feeling that the movie could be really more than it really is, there was so much potential... The movie isn't bad, it is awesome, but sometimes it just lacks character(and it incredibly comes from the human ones).

If you haven't watched this: Go ahead, it's amazing.

"Dying is a part of the human natural cycle. Your life is just a span in time."

Fincher scores again with this amazing piece of art.

We follow Nick Dunne on his journey to discover what(or who) is behind his wife disappearance. A quick and intense pace keeps the audience guessing what's to come, and how, through the entire movie. The plot points keeps the audience at the edge of the seat on the expectation of the dissolving of the case.

Fearless acting, smart pace, astonishing visuals and a intriguing theme. A lot of people are going to watch this masterpiece, and you reader is probably one of them... So prepare yourself, cause it's a hell of a ride.