Mr. Nobody

Van Dormael has crafted a saga that, even at two-plus hours, is endlessly, enormously watchable.

Van Dormael's intriguing script is more than matched in his flamboyant direction of this 2-hour-plus tale, heroically edited by Matyas Veress and Susan Shipton into a fluid, generally understandable narrative.

As philosophy, Mr. Nobody seems sillier than it is profound. But in a parallel reality, more movies would have this degree of insane ambition.

In the end, Mr. Nobody’s title is simply too apt.

Though a lot of it is well written and directed and, quite often, funny or poignant, the individual scenes rarely become part of a larger whole.

The only truly graspable notion the film can be said to put forth is one of increasingly tedious sci-fi-romantic genre busy-ness.

Mr. Nobody is simply a failure.

This movie was absolutely amazing. I agree with the masses on their opinion that you either love or hate this film. In an artistic sense, this movie was stunning, a masterpiece.

Mr. Nobody is a film I want to uprate since the visuals are lush and wonderful and I tend to enjoy cerebral / trippy movies. But I never got into the story. It felt wandering / meandering and did not feel like it was going anyplace. There is an excellent film in there that is waiting for an editor to bring it into existence.

Strange and ambitious but also incredibly directionless and lacking the emotion it seems to be trying to conjure up. Mr. Nobody it's a film that is too long to sustain its own mess and that is that its own limitations make it far-fetched where it should be simpler and it becomes simplistic where it should be more complicated and when a film tries to pretend a philosophical level that simply cannot achieve, the result will be both awkward and pretentious and this is how the film feels most of the time.

A jumbled mess of ideas, whose weight was evidently too great for the writer-director's shoulders. A group of completely unlikable characters, involved in unconvincing, utterly infantile love stories. Not one of the actors could sell the roles given to them. A plot that takes too long to develop trivial parts, while under develop integral notions of the lofty concept. Thus, the supposed mystery and riddle of what is happening takes backstage to the bad romances and uninteresting lives, and when it's FINALLY time for it to be unraveled, I can imagine only the most zealous viewer would still bother concentrating. Two and a half hours is too short to develop so many ideas, while at the same time too long for a slow, dragging movie. Thus, the execution of each one remains lacking, or plain bad. If someone threw money at me to waste so much of the viewer's time, I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

This movie is bad. It's just bad. Terrible. Awful. With an ending that preceded with a confusing storyline and a disastrous script to complement it. In this movie everything is plot line connected to another plot line. So much so that I felt very frustrated throughout the entire movie trying to keep it all straight, and trying to empathize with the characters in the movie while doing so.