Pretentious

Rating: 2/10 (10 October 2011)

Positive: nice soundtrack, nice picture (but is it really necessary to repeat 4 times the same slow motion shot showing the actor face on a dark background?)
Negative: complete lack of rhythm, no dialogue will be remembered and actors have no expressions or psychological depth. The (weak) plot is messy and based on several coincidences. The end is easily expected and the love story is dull: new neighbors, car broke and strangely he is there to help, best-friend of the son, ... As somebody in the previous reviews has already pointed out:
"I know what the creative intent was, that the character was just something of a "blank canvas"... The biggest problem here is that Gosling can't tone down the smart and charming enough for us to believe that he's as socially isolated as his character really should be. And, again, he tends to try to substitute blankness for intensity. It doesn't work.". "A man of few words but who looks smarter than anybody else. He is ridiculous taking himself so seriously."
Do you remember Javier Bardem in "no country for old men?" That's a "black canvas" performance!