Scarlett Johansson at her best!

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2016)

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! Sums up both the movie and its heavenly lead actress. I cannot do justice to the beauty of this beacon of loveliness, the seventeen year old soon-to-be superstar.
It is not a movie for barbarians. You want fistfights and explosions and shootouts, go find something else. It's a chick flick, I suppose, but certainly not the usual from that genre. What we have here is something reminiscent of the Golden Age of Hollywood, something so totally an anachronism in its day and age, now even more so in our self-centered times. Bill Murray portrays an old gentleman, playing it the way an old gentleman does. Which I why, I suppose, they died out.
Yeah, yeah. Nothing happens. It's the emotions, the humanity, the love. And if you can't get it, hell, I'm not going to say I feel sorry for you. You're better off being the callous, inhuman brute that you are.
Really moved me, lump in the throat. And it's not the first time I've seen it. The movie gets my highest recommendation,
I've only got one complaint. The DVD box features the original movie poster (which is how it should be) but the original movie poster, come on, come on, it should have shown that lovely scene where Scarlett is sitting on the windowsill wistfully looking out over Tokyo. That is the iconic image, the barefoot blonde leggy beauty. Not the pedestrian image of a decrepit old guy in his slippers. Did they want to keep the people out of the theaters, or what?
Two in a row for Sofia Coppola!
A must-have movie for Scarlett Johansson fans. She shines with the promise of greatness to come!