Franklyn

Franklyn

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Franklyn

Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green, Sam Riley, Richard Coyle, Sam Douglas

Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic metropolis of Meanwhile City, "Franklyn" weaves a tale of four lost souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tr...( read more  read more... )agedy. As these worlds collide, a single bullet determines the destiny of these four characters.

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  • December 27, 2009
    I loved the visuals and the cast, The movie itself was really interesting 2 me but I don't think i quite get, I'll have 2 watch it again.
  • December 8, 2009
    The Meanwhile City stuff is just top notch and if the whole film had taken place there I would be raving it right now. Instead I'm scratching my head wondering what the hell I just watched. My only explanation is someone took a script about "parallel worlds" then they took anothe...( read more)r script about fate and imaginary friends, shuffled the two together, randomly pulled out pages and then proceeded to shoot it.
    A wasted effort indeed.
  • June 16, 2009
    I had been anticipating this movie for quite a while -and was partially disappointed in it, just like I've been in most movies this year.

    Firstly, though, I have to hand it to the screenwriter and the director for the brilliance of both the idea and the setting. The performances...( read more) are great -even from Ryan Phillipe, whose talent I have been questioning to the day. Eva Green probably to a very unique role and Sam Riley although great, surely not great enough to surpass his performance in control.

    It reminded me of several other movies, but this movie takes it to a different level, studies its characters without destroying their integrity, balances hope with degeneration, humanity with dehumanization, this world and a parallel one, illusion and reality. It's not a bad movie -it simply isn't a great one either.

    However, by the end you're full of questions and none of them gets answered. No happy occurrences and a bitter taste of incompleteness in your mouth. There is a tone of a graphic novel truth in it and there are quite a few religious memorandums, almost like saying that those who have no faith are doomed to always be lost. It had many things to say but failed in doing so and it simply slipped in time immemorial. And for these reasons, that's why Franklyn didn't work for me.
  • April 27, 2009
    Will certainly get better after a second watch due to expectations. Everything I had read and seen of this film, from articles and trailers, really played up the futuristic Sci-Fi aspects. This is only one of 4 plots in this film, the other three take place in contemporary London...( read more). Imagine Dark City or Blade Runner edited together with a Mike Leigh film or two. It keeps you confused as to why these stories are being told together, which inevitably distracts from the film itself. By the end it all comes together and is rather satisfying. Phillipe gives a tremendous performance and can really knock out a great English accent. Riley has the least fun role, but adds his everyman charm to proceedings. It's a thoughtful film, if a little self indulgent. Expect a British drama as opposed to a Gothic action film.
  • December 6, 2009
    Great drama interwoven with a Noir/Sci-fi story.
  • December 27, 2009
    Impressive. I watched it twice before I really understood. I have to admit, I hadnt been very intrigued until about the last thirty minutes when everything started coming together and making sense.

    Set in a cross between a futuristic city, Meanwhile City, and a contemporary Lond...( read more)on, "Franklyn" is a Bristish sci-fi movie about four seemingly unrelated people - each with his or her own story. In the fantastic realm of Meanwhile City, we meet Jonathan Priest: a masked man without faith who is hell-bent on taking out one - The Individual - for murdering an eleven year-old girl.

    In London, we find three characters: Emilia Bryant - a self-destructive art student, Milo - an imaginative young man who has just suffered a bitterend to a relationship, and Peter Esser - an older man who recently received a phone call telling him that his son is missing.

    While Jonathan sets out to assainate The Individual, Emelia searches for the truth about her father and love from her mother, Milo finds an old friend who may not be what she seems, and Peter continues the search for his lost son who is more lost than he knows.

    Maybe the reason I liked this movie so much is because I am writing something similar. Not really the parellel worlds thing, but the entwined stories and fates. I realize that sort of movie isn't a movie for everyone. I honestly expected to find more bad reviews than I did. But if you like sci-fi movies with a twist, I recommend this one for you.
  • December 20, 2009
    Nice try! Great work of art directory, but a major lack of connection between storyline and the characters: Nothing made sense until the last 10 minutes.
  • December 18, 2009
    Took me a while to get into it, but this was pretty cool. I'd forgotten what it was about and went in with no preconceptions at all, so it was slower and less coherent than I'd anticipated, but around halfway through I started piecing it together and really working to figure out...( read more) who was who and what was what. Worth watching.
  • December 14, 2009
    Though the film was somewhat hard to get a grasp on at first, later on it became quite clear to me what the movie was actually about, though it is hard to explain. I did enjoy the fictitious portion of this movie much more than I enjoyed the realistic part (I'm sure many will agr...( read more)ee with me). Though I was a little down-trotted by the obvious... homage(?) that it gave to the Movie/comic book Watchmen. The characters were very believable without being downright houses of pure depression, which is a good thing, but I cannot help but think that they could have made an entire movie out of the futuristic city "Meanwhile" and the movie would have been much more popular. If only it were a little more original.
  • December 2, 2009
    A great movie but i have to admit i was losing interest until about 40 minutes in, that's when i got it, and everything made sense. Until then it just seemed like 4 random peoples random stories, it's obviously not going to be liked by people who like there story to go from A-B-C...( read more) but as this was just A-A-A-A-B it was a nice variant on the narrative.

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