A simple story told in a complicated way, but still manages to stay fantastic.

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2016)

The hard part of this review is writing the synopsis, but I'll try. We meet Nemo Nobody, who is put into a difficult decision. Leave with his mom, or stay with his dad. He chose both. No we see all different time lines that could've been. (This is the best I could come up with)
The director comes from Belgium, which I didn't know at first, and is called Jaco Van Dormael. He has created probably the only good Belgian movie, that I've seen. I am from Belgium myself, and trust me, we don't make a lot of good movies. Sometimes we get recognized for some movies like the Oscar nomination for "Broken circle breakdown", and also for "Bullhead". Schoenaarts became popular in Hollywood due to that movie, but I'm drifting away. Van Dormael did a fantastic job at directing the movie. He has a special technique, and I like that. He has put a lot of effort in the movie, which you can clearly see. Van Dormael tried to be experimental at times, and also succeeded at it. But the part that I found really cool is how he handled the focus. Normally they just use it so you know where your attention is supposed to be. In this movie they use it to create a more mysterious look, but it also makes a pretty shot. Of course the directing isn't the only good thing about this movie, so let's move on. The cinematography was done good as well. This was done by Christophe Beaucarne. Another thing that stood out to me was the editing. This was also thanks to the great director. There were a lot of shots (the marriage sequences in example) where this was used to give a nice flow from changing scenes. This can also be see, when Nemo and Anna are making out, and the camera starts to turn around them, where after they lay down on the bed. It's hard to describe in words, but if you've seen the movie, I think you'll understand me.
This movie isn't prefect, but that's just me nitpicking, so let's start with the nitpicking, even though it's just one thing I want to say here. The make-up for old Jared Leto. It looked fine for me, but it looked also like just another layer of a sort of rubber put on him. So I can understand why some people will see this as an issue.
No I'll talk a bit about the acting. Keep in mind that I won't go over everyone, and mostly do the adult actors. Let's start with the main character. The main character is "cleverly" called Nemo Nobody. And I said "Cleverly" because Nemo is nobody in Latin. This was a fun little easter egg. Nemo was played by Jared Leto, but also by Toby Regbo and Thomas Byrne. They were all good, but like I've said, I'll mainly focus on the adult actors. Leto also played the 100 year old Nemo, and with this part I have an issue. The voice he used. His body language was very good, but the voice just really didn't sound right. Also the laugh at the end of the movie was very weird, I know that it was supposed to be backwards. The next person is one of his wives, well sort of, and also his stepsister... This was Anna, as adult she was played by Diane Kruger. Of course there were again child actresses. She was good, just like the other actresses. One of his other wives is Elise, as an adult she was played by Sarah Polley. She too was good. From her we saw a more emotional side, which she handled very well. The last of his wives was Jean. Linh Dan Pham played her. We didn't get to see a lot of her, but for the parts she had, she was good. I'll stop this part of my review here, because you might have noticed that I've used the word 'good' a lot. That's because everyone in this movie acted good. See there is it again. That's why I'll stop, because It might get a bit repetitive.
Now let's talk a bit about the screenplay. This was written by the director himself. And hats of to him. He did a good job at it. The story is told in a non-linear way. This could have been a disaster of a mess, but he has created a very well crafted movie. He managed to give the movie a deep meaning about choices, and it makes you rethink some things. He uses the butterfly effect too in the movie. This is actually a very big part of the movie, and it was cool to see it handled so well in a movie. The dialogue was good too. But a thing I liked the most on this part of the movie is the character of Nemo. It's written in such a way, that his character changes in every different 'timeline', this is due to the good writing. The only thing that really bothered me was the twist at the end. It all takes place inside of the nine year old boys head. Even though this is a sad moment in the movie, and also heartbreaking, I thought that he could've come up with a better twist.
But in the end "Mr. Nobody" is a fantastic movie that everyone should check out.
9.25/10