This is a FANTASTIC film

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2007)

This film is fantastic, quite simply the best film I have seen for a while. The acting, directing, cinematography, music are all superb - Pitt, Affleck, Rockwell, the whole cast are submerged in their characters. It works on many different levels. Chopper is a good film, however I feel this work has far far surpassed that. Where some people may have criticised the film for being too long, or starting and stopping, I see this as its true beauty - ebbing and flowing, taking us on a tragic yet beautiful trip, with a truly haunting (spine tingling) soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis evoking the building of tension, paranoia and sense of wanting. At its core I feel this film delving directly into the human psyche that has a need to be recognised as somebody and something. This may be the need to be infamous for the outlaws, yet it satisfies their need, or more appropriately it temporarily satisfies their need. This is a film that burns imagery and feelings into your mind, and that, makes me want to see it again. People who under rate this movie in my opinion don't have an opinion worth counting. Each scene is cut to perfection, with sublime cinematography, music and dialogue that represents film in its true creative art form. The scene I love is the build up to the train robbery, not far into the film, which for me begins the trail of inflections.