Customer Reviews

Terrible! - By: N. Tate, 22 Sep 2008
One to avoid.This is someone trying to outdo Clockwork Orange & it does not even come close.There are no good points to say about this film,the best thing is when it ends.

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The world as it is (today). - By: Derrida&Co, 02 Mar 2008
I am shocked to see that this small movie got so much negative criticism. Yet it is just a realistic depiction of the world as it is today, as it ever was & ever will be. Surely it's poorin psychological character development, & all the more richin graphic, realistic violence & sex. Surely Clay is not Ken Loach. But is this a reason to think this movie is bad ? Let me say you that I like it as much as other people hate it. To me, movies do not have to please or offer entertainment, nor do I think they should shock us. We must not forget that a movie is a created product. Not "why was this movie made" should be our first reaction, but the the sheer constatation of the fact that the movie is there,in front of me, is teasing me, talking to me, shocking me, pleasing me. Its form comes before its content. Therefore the form is the first thing that confronts me. The form of this movie isin all aspects great, a lust to the eye, & therefore this movie is good & far much better than most of the mainstream big productions we are told by the mass media to like. Finally I would like to say something about the musical score. Obviously, there is the sharp contrast between the lovely harmonic music played on cello by the main actor, & the cold atonal (dodecaphonic) music of the score, & one would be tempted to associate the atonal music with the violence. Don't fallin this trap! This music deserves to be heard on its own, as an object of art, independently of the action (non-action) of the movie.

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Nothing in common with CLOCKWORK ORANGE - By: Brendan O. Clarke, 27 Feb 2008
Like one of its foulmouthed delinquents , this contrived teenage drama has got the swagger down but does not have the smarts to back it up. Its the story of a disaffected youth who ends up bothering car parks with the wrong crowd. Before long he is committing despicable acts of rape.

Suck lazy characterisation is unforegivebale , more so the clumsy attempts at drawing a parallel with Iraq to try & justify the carnage of the cringeworthy final scene. Total garbage.
Avoid.

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Doesn't deserve one star - By: Mr. Tim Young, 04 Feb 2008
I ruined my Sunday afternoon watching this vile pornography masquerading as post-modernist social realism (or whatever cliché you choose). Not only is it pornographic -in the extremein the final scenes - it is quite simply a terrible film. No discernible plot, no characterisation, some appalling ham acting (TV food critic & wife). Do you know? I woke up this morning & put the DVDin the bin. I feel tainted by having watched this film, both as film-lover & relatively moral person. This film doesn't even deserve one star.

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Rubbish!!! - By: Philip Collinson, 14 Nov 2007
Ok, so here I am, reviewing 'The 'Great' Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael.' This . . . film, has to be the worst one to ever come out of Britain, which is such a shame because I love new British movies, especially by new/young directors. But THIS, what was this? There was NO meaningful dialogue & absolutely NO characterization or plot. The fact that the only scene I can remember is the last one (a brutal gang rape of a womanin front of her husband which is shownin the most violent & horrific detail I have ever seen) shows what an appalling movie this really was.

Oh & there are many people who are talking about "art" & asking us to "look within the film to see its true messgage." I did...it was still rubbish. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!!!!