The Loneliest Planet (2012)

You won't be disappointed!

Good concept, poorly executed.

Awesome Movie

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Foot travel in the mountains of a strange country with a guide. Not your romantic espade! Great bodies in shape, great panoramas, not much of a story though. Another I watched the second half in accelerate. Good if plenty of time.

I get what it wants to talk about: the fear of finding out the person you love most is not the person you thought he or she was. The fear of finding out you are by yourself after all. It is a worthy subject to make a movie about, so if you are interested in exploring this idea, there is a great movie called Tourist that you can watch instead of this movie.I'm very forgiving of artsy movies because I assume the directors must know more about the art than I do, and I'm a snob so I suck up to everything artsy. But there is a limit to being indulgent. What unfolds in this movie is hardly emphasizable. Since there is a much better movie that talks about the mangled idea of The Loneliest Planet much better, I recommend others to avoid being sucked by misleading accolade and seek worthier entertainment.

The Loneliest Planet - The sophomore effort from writer/director Julia Loktev, this film follows a young American couple as they take a trek through the man's ancestral homeland in Georgia (the nation, not the state)'s Caucus mountains. I am unfamiliar with the director's previous effort (2006's Day Night Day Night) but regret to say that The Loneliest Planet did not really inspire me to seek her earlier work out. The problem lies primarily with the screenplay, especially the first hour, which plays more like high quality excerpts from someone's vacation video than like a narrative picture. NOTHING happens. Okay, that's an exaggeration, there are a FEW bits of characterization and foreshadowing that lend to the storyline. However, with a run time of an hour and fifty odd minutes, the movie's first seventy-five could easily have been cut to thirty without detracting from the (minimal) story that the script sets out to tell. Without the lovely cinematography contributed by Inti Briones, the first half of the film would be practically unwatchable.Gael Garcia Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien) and Hani Furstenberg (Yossi and Jagger) do respectable jobs as the vacationing couple, but are not really given enough dialog or activity to really show us what they are capable of. First time actor Bidzina Gujabidze actually outshines them both as their tour guide, his "local color" helping to bridge some of the more debilitatingly slow passages of the film, but even he is fighting an uphill battle. I can appreciate the point of Loktev's story, but it just didn't constitute a two hour movie. It might have made a nice short film...2 1/2 of 5 stars.Review brought to you by www.TheMovieFrog.com

This piece of pretentious waffle made me wish the "The Tree of Life" was showing next door, just so I could use the eye of my penis to tunnel a path through the walls and watch something that in comparison, was a bloody great movie (and I hated it!!)...Why do I need to give it even 1 star? Clearly the film maker smoked one too many dried toads during the production of this one. Who do I contact to get my $18 and 113 minutes back...And where was the intriguing and secret plot twist??? The only twist associated with this movie was the one created in my stomach that made me want to spew all over the large screen the moment the screen when blank and the credits started to roll. It's pretty rare in cinemas to see people walk out mid way through, but it happened more than once. I suspect, like me, the only reason the entire cinema didn't spill into the streets looking for the first bus to jump under was the expectation that something note worthy would eventually happen. Sadly, the most noteworthy event in our cinema that night was when the guy behind me let one go in his sleep.I'm off to see the Office of Fair Trading - a bit of false and misleading advertising on this one!!!