The Bucket List (2007)

People are voting emotionally.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Best movie ever!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Wow, what a wonderful movie. I could have expected that when I saw that Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson are in the main roles. Film which surely makes you thinking about life and everything which is important. A really great film .

Morgan and jack proves again that nothing is more beautiful in this world than friendship and it can breaks all the barrier even the barrier of time, like the part when jack check " kissing the most beautiful girl in this world" This is a nice movie to watch or may be You are not that much strong as i thought you are.

After few minutes, I have feeling that I have also some disease. Too depressive and cold. This movie have no real value or meaning, everything is vague and really cold in feelings and acting. Dialogues are like reading statements, trying to say something but saying nothing. First movie which get me that feeling: "I am here right now, watching TV and there is something, which should be less than background" and absolutely not concerning me. I am turning off and going to write review.In this kind of movies are better actors, who have more contact with real life and are more trying to act. Terrible movie with A class actors. Freeman and Nicholson seems to be bored by themselves and regrets to sign for this. I don't understand, where it gets so much points. Maybe they were trying to get wider audience. Or some nominations. I don't even know if this movie have some nominations, but I will be first one in the cinema to go out in the middle of it.There are similar and really better movies, like German Knocking on the heavens door. Or some movie with queen Latifah, and also another french movie with quadriplegic.

Lovely, thoroughly enjoyable movie with lots of nice words and thoughts exchanged, some to make you laugh, some pretty profound to make you ponder on. Who would've ever thought that a story about two dying men could be such fun. Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), so far complete strangers, with rather different economic and social backgrounds (billionaire hospital magnate and body shop mechanic), both terminally ill, thus inevitably at closing stages of their earthly lives, meet and, in order to try to experience things from their "bucket list" (a list of things to do before one "kicks the bucket", i.e. dies) before the final curtain falls, embark on nothing less than an amazing journey. Although age-wise much too "developed" for many youthful activities they engage themselves in, and despite their individual differences, however sufficiently open-minded and open-hearted, two protagonists, through their earnest performances and their great interaction easily draw us into their well believable story (with single fantastic twist at the end... (spoiler)... realization that rather than through eyes of the still surviving one, the story was told from the mind of his ensuing spirit), whether (constantly) putting smile on our face or tears to our eyes, ergo covering (well, for us viewers) one of listed items, "laugh till I cry"....On a more personal note, eight years ago when I first saw this movie in a theatre, I was a solitary man, going fifty, thinking that I have already experienced things which could make my "bucket list" (climbed high mountains (Mont Blanc, Gross Glockner, Triglav, Durmitor, Fujiyama, Kilimanjaro... to name a few), visited Great Pyramids, well not Great Wall of China, but at least Great Wall of Ston, well not Taj Mahal, but instead many other magnificent temples (Angkor Wat in Cambodia, temple of Karnak in Egypt, temples of Nara, Japan... to mention a few), been on safaris in Tanzania and Rwanda...) to reference those matching items pursued in the movie. Now, after its second viewing, coincidentally on my wife's birthday, I'm almost sixty realizing that only by starting a family and having this cute little toddler of ours to chase and play with every day (and... quoting another listed item, in "kiss(ing) the most beautiful girl in the world", compete with her mother), I have pushed my life's wish list much closer to completion...Finally, after a decade of his successes in 80-ies and beginning of 90-ies with movies that I have enjoyed watching very much ("This is Spinal Tap" (1984), "Stand by Me" (1986), "The Princess Bride" (1987), "When Harry Met Sally..." (1989), "Misery" (1990), "A Few Good Men" (1992)), "The Bucket List" marks Rob Reiner's successful comeback and it stands as his easily the-best-of-the-new-millennium directorial effort thus far.