Cinematography:
Sean Price WilliamsComposer:
Daniel LopatinCast:
Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, Necro, Souleymane Sy Savane, Buddy Duress, Mahadeo Shivraj, Cliff Moylan (more)Plots(1)
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night, Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance. (Cannes Film Festival)
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A kinetic social thriller that feels burnt out from the first shot and isn’t helped much by the lobotomized twists, or even the likable but insensitively used 80s analogue hell soundtrack from Oneohtrix Point Never. Pattinson gives the best performance of his career - but let's face it, his character is so external that he doesn't have to do all that much work.
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The weirdest movie this year, where the five stars around here are a mystery to me. The film has very off-putting to the point of being cheesy visuals, I found the ubiquitous Robert Pattinson very unlikeable to the point of being sleazy, I didn't find the story interesting at all and although the script is unpredictable it is far from intelligent. I considered turning it off halfway through, but eventually finished the film with difficulty. It didn't sit well with me. The kind of film where nothing of substance happens at all whether it's a twist, action or violence, everything is absent. 40%.
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Robert Pattinson's performance pleasantly shocked me in such a way that for a moment I didn't recognize any of his previous roles. Additionally, when the story grabbed me so tightly that I couldn't even breathe for the first twenty minutes, I began to hope that the rumors about Drive on an acid trip would at least be partially fulfilled, but these remained only promises. Sometime in the third act, the plot and development stagnated so suddenly and nonsensically that I suspected at times that the creators only seriously wrote the first act. Wasted potential and a race to deny clichés as much as possible, which ultimately trips up all the creators.
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This movie is definitively one of the most interesting ones of 2017. The dynamic musical undertone takes turns with a rather alternative method of transferring the script to the film screen. Alternative in the sense that everything in the film is quite raw, sometimes even disgusting. And Robert Pattinson did a great job portraying a character who is drowning in a quagmire of this human depravity. His behavior just makes no sense at all.
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A raw and pretty original insight into the life of a cunning thief. Pattinson enjoys his role of perverse scab with strange moral boundaries. His attempts at getting his disabled brother out of prison/hospital and the winding road leading to this goal serves only as a way of investigating the logic both of the main protagonist and of the lower classes of dirty New York. Great music, unbelievable pace.
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