Love and Distrust (2010)

The Worst Film Ever

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Oh why oh why oh why did I not check these reviews first. This was staggeringly dreadful, and the first short with RP in it was made in 2009??? The 21st century?This film was like a bad worn out video with badly made 1970s style content. We have watched other Robert Pattinson films, and Water for Elephants was excellent, and thoroughly deserving of 10 stars.This? Just please don't bother. Don't do what we did and actually watch 85% of the whole thing before resorting to posting this review. I'm reliably informed the last 15% is just the icing on the cake. Bin it.And the film packaging and presentation is a total con.

While I agree wholeheartedly with most reviewers in that this is a terrible excuse for a film, none of them seem to have clocked what I suspected about halfway through the 3rd segment; it was never meant to be a film at all. Each is a standalone short made with nothing to do with the others whatsoever, and they were made up to 10 years apart (the Robert Downey Jnr one was made in 2000, the Robert Pattinson one in 2009, and others in 2004 and 2006 I think). Which does rather suggest that whoever made the decision to edit them together into one was doing so simply to be able to put so many big names on one DVD box, but (rightly or otherwise) suspecting people would be put off by having to call it a collection of unconnected shorts, so trying to hide the fact that that's what it is. I can only hope it failed to sell, otherwise this kind of trick could carry on for as long as stars or future stars make short films with probably no rights at all over what's done with them years later.

Each tale seemed to have some element of what could be true love. A young girls first love, a free-spirit's unwillingness to commit, a depressed woman at the end of her rope, a young mother fulfilling her daughters passion, two idiots trying to get famous and of course; A divorcée looking to find sexuality after being left by her husband for a much younger woman. The movie entered five phases of what some would call dysfunctional love Obsession/ Suspicion Suspicion/ Sincerity Sincerity/ Doubt Doubt/ True Love True Love/ False HopeIf you are willing to give philosophical thought to what you're watching this movie would be recommended. If entertainment is what you're seeking this isn't the movie for you.

This movie was absolutely terrible. Hands down the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. I feel bad for even wasting a dollar at Redbox for this. What was I smoking...? Or maybe we should ask what was the director smoking? It has good actors in it but this movie is bad enough to end their careers possibly. An actor such as Downey, Jr. should not downgrade himself from the risk of being in this movie and how terrible it is. Why would you possibly want to put like 5 short movies into one? I mean this movie makes movies such as The Lost Tribe look like award winning movies. James Franco is indeed a good actor and I enjoyed seeing him in Pineapple Express but this is a joke. The whole movie I've thanked God that it was over and then another short movie starts. Why would anyone get any pleasure from watching this? Overall, TERRIBLE movie.