Revolutionary Road Reviews and Ratings



  • December 5, 2009
    Interesting comentary on the 50's early 60's and how they thought if you just ignore your problems they'll just go away.
  • December 4, 2009
    This one makes it to 4 stars based purely on the acting. It is a performance driven film as there isn?t so much as a storyline more about a fly on the wall watching of the ins and outs of a couple's relationship.

    The content acting-wise was huge and I?m sure quite challenging...( read more) to both main stars.

    Reunited again, are Titanic stars, Winslet, Dicaprio and Bates.

    Nothing like I had expected the film to be and yet an intriguing tale of love.
  • November 30, 2009
    One of the most powerful movies i have ever seen. A story that is commentary on our western society (set in the 50s which only makes it more extreme).
    A FANTASTIC FILM! This movie stuck with me longer than any movie has. People either love it or hate it because it hits too close...( read more) to home for people and they don't know what to do with that!
  • November 30, 2009
    It was well acted, well directed but one of the most unrelentingly grim films I've ever seen.
  • November 24, 2009
    It seems that I am the only one to like this movie on here. I thought the first half was a great buildup of just intensity whilst they have some small fights, but then everything explodes and it's fascinating to see these two, whom still have great chemistry together. When Leo's ...( read more)character casually has an affair, when he gets home, he seems to almost regret it. It's interesting to see how they do such things without the other's knowledge. Tightly edited and quite good, the biggest problem is Michael Shannon's performance, not that it was bad, just not as amazing as the critics deemed it.
  • November 22, 2009
    el mejor dialogo que e visto"
  • November 18, 2009
    There's no place like home...

    This Guy Over Here picks this as one of the Best Films of the 2000s
  • November 16, 2009
    Best Actress in a leading role 2008
  • November 11, 2009
    This was the worst & most depressing movie I have seen all year, To make it worse it dragged on and on. It was just weird. It was one of those movies where I had to watch something else afterward just to get it out of my head.
  • November 6, 2009
    Triste e pesante, ma non assolutamente in maniera negativa.
    È uno di quei film che devono essere metabolizzati, che rimangono in testa per tanto tanto tempo.
  • November 3, 2009
    Wow . . . If you know me, you know that Kate Winslet is on my all-time favorite actors list. For me to put a living actor on my all-time favorite list takes some great work. If you know me, you also know that Leonardo DiCaprio not only is not on my all-time favorite actor list,...( read more) but has about as much chance making that list as the proverbial snowball in H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks.

    So you can imagine my surprise when I finally bit the bullet to watch this and found myself pretty much blown away by DiCaprio's work.

    Now unlike my turning point with, say, Tom Hanks in Da Vinci or Brad Pitt in Devil's Own, I'm not going to be able to say that I might try to re-evaluate my position on DiCaprio's past work. I'm sure my evaluation of his past work is correct: He's not (been) much of an actor. I will say this, however. I'm willing to watch with an unjaundiced eye what DiCaprio does from here on in, to see if he's finally matured into a good actor.

    Kate Winslet does not disappoint, by the way. I believe she is easily the finest actress of her generation. Stunningly good, really. So good, yet again, that she really does deserve to be listed with the greatest actresses of all-time.

    But to reiterate, especially for those of you who know how I've talked about DeCaprio in the past, this is a must-see for his work as well.

    NB: Be in a good mood when you catch this one. I tell you true that this is a draining full-fledged tragedy with little to bring you up from the depths when the final credits roll.

  • November 3, 2009
    What does a cult 1961 Richard Yates novel about a 1950s marriage rotting in the burbs have to say to a new century? Plenty, and hold on, because the raw and riveting Revolutionary Road hits you where it hurts. To hear Kate Winslet, as April Wheeler, express her desire "to be wond...( read more)erful in the world" is to be reminded of subtle urges with no expiration date. Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, as her husband, Frank, could not be better in the roles of young marrieds who (shades of Mad Men) move from Manhattan to the suburbs, promising themselves it's all just temporary. April dreams of taking off for Paris, where she'll work while Frank pursues his artistic impulses. Add two kids, thwarted ambitions, adultery ? Frank with a secretary (a vivid Zoe Kazan) and April with a married neighbor (the excellent David Harbour) ? plus April's unwanted third pregnancy, and the whooshing sound you hear is a dream in free-fall. Directed with extraordinary skill by Sam Mendes (American Beauty), who warms the chill in the Yates-faithful script by Justin Haythe, the film is a tough road well worth traveling. Camera genius Roger Deakins lights the "hopeless emptiness" on view with a terrible beauty. All the actors amaze. Start the award buzz for Michael Shannon as John Givings, the institutionalized son of a gossipy realtor (the ever-superb Kathy Bates). Home on a visit, John spits the truth at Frank and April. Playing the role like a heat-seeking missile that targets hypocrisy, the volcanic Shannon scores a knockout. DiCaprio is in peak form, bringing layers of buried emotion to a defeated man. And the glorious Winslet defines what makes an actress great, blazing commitment to a character and the range to make every nuance felt. Winslet's last scene, as April prepares breakfast for a husband who can't see the torment behind her smile, is emotionally devastating. This movie takes a piece out of you.
  • October 29, 2009
    Close up on the interpersonal horror of a relationship full of misunderstandings and selfishness.
  • October 28, 2009
    An intense film, yet quite disturbing as well with it's unique edge. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio star as a young married couple in the '50s whose lives are based on what they believe to be of the higher ideals, only to find themselves on emotional rollercoasters due to the...( read more) inadequacy of their stereotypical existence in Connecticut. Frank(DiCaprio) works at a job he hates because he feels that is the way, and never gives himself the chance to find out who he really is. April(Winslet) has a desire to start over again in Paris which was once fondly spoken of by Frank. But do the pieces fit into the puzzle of their dream of the "perfect" life they imagined themselves living?
    I was impressed with Kate Winslet's performance as the daydreaming housekeeper, and Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as the guy who just does what he thinks he has to do as a father and husband. However, each character does questionable things which helps define this union as unsavory indeed.
    The "Stepford Wives"-esque feel of the film is eerie even though it may not have even been planned, and I feel a film like this is scarier than the average horror film of these days. Show me a good thriller of the horror genre, and it's an enjoyable ride. But when it comes to harsh reality so often prevalent in the world, it scares the hell out of me.
    And ironically enough, Kathy Bates of "Misery" portrays a real estate agent who shows them a house on Revolutionary Road.
    "Ozzie and Harriot", I think not.
  • October 25, 2009
    "No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying."

    Without a shadow of a doubt, this is one of the most powerfully written, directed and performed films I have ever seen. Justin Haythe has superbly adapted quite an interior novel and made it seem effortle

    ...( read more)ss, and this is easily Sam Mendes' most accomplished film yet. Revolutionary Road has long been the project Kate Winslet has most wanted to do and she wisely waited until she was of the right age and experience to make it, giving one of the most realistic performances committed to celluloid this century. She may have been excellent in The Reader but this is acting on another level and why the Academy failed to recognise it is a mystery to me. All other performances, even in the smallest role, are note perfect, so the film becomes not only about Frank and Alice but also permeates out to their friends and acquaintances too. A film meticulously detailing a crumbling marriage trapped in the claustrophobia of American Surburbia in the 1950s. It is often more disturbing than any horror film and acknowledges the truth that it is possible to immediately and irrevocably fall out of love - or realise that there never was love to begin with. That the artifice of what is accepted or expected can bleed into one's own soul, the realisation of that fakery tainting everything, forever.
  • October 23, 2009
    one of the best movies ever ,very captivating ,loving in the misdtof trials
  • October 22, 2009
    I'll post my review soon. Brilliant film.
  • October 20, 2009
    A look back at the American dream in the revolutionary 1950s that will leave the viewers contemplating how much have our lives changed and our dreams stayed the same.
  • October 19, 2009
    Sin olvidarse jamas de su muy personal estilo, Mendes nos lleva de la mano a través de una historia tan común como extraordinaria. Un matrimonio que intenta recuperar la pasión de los primeros años.
    Actuaciones supremas, una direccion sublime y un soundtrack que ambienta perfecta...( read more)mente cada cuadro de la pelicula. Un plato suculento y maravilloso, con una poderosa moraleja...
  • October 18, 2009
    Powerful actors and actresses + Some really powerful moments = a powerful movie
  • October 18, 2009
    A very powerful examination of how we value our lives in Western society. Despite being set in the 1950s, the experiences and lessons are equally applicable to the modern day. Mendes takes us on a journey through the difficulties in accepting life (and long-term love) on its ow...( read more)n terms - a journey everyone takes, and which can require a shocking readjustment to how you view yourself, and what you hope to achieve in life. It's the true coming-of-age that happens to us as young adults. The performances are all astonishingly good. The film does make for difficult viewing, though.
  • October 18, 2009
    Sehr stimmiger Film, der dem Roman nicht gerecht werden kann. Zwei starke Hauptdarsteller bewegen sich in einem tollen Setting.
  • October 17, 2009
    Not as good as I was expecting or hoping, despite starring who I believe are the best actor and actress of our time. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett are stellar as usual and Michael Shannon was outstanding.
  • October 17, 2009
    This is Sam Mendes doing what he does best. Feels like a direct companion to "American Beauty". Great performances. Great score by Thomas Newman (who did the score for "American Beauty". At first the ending feels a bit heavy handed but there's some genius last shots that made it ...( read more)work for me. I never read the Yates novel, otherwise I'm sure I would have found more wrong with it.
  • October 16, 2009
    It was a pretty amazing movie, in that tragic, angst-induldging I-will-never-watch-this-again-way. Dead on, with our social behaviour, how we relate to ouselves and to our lives and extrodinary, extrodinary performances at the center of it. Winslet and DiCaprio delivers, it's obv...( read more)ious that whatever it was that worked in Titanic ten years ago is still there, and the supporting cast is also teriffic. I havn't seen The Reader, but it had to be something to beat Winslets performance here, or I say she got the right award for the wrong movie 'cause damn! This story stands or falls with the actors, there is nothing to hide behind, and they are so up to the task.
    It is a really heavy movie though, not the kind of smoth enjoyableness that we are accustomed to. There were laughs, in fact quite a few of them, but they were all tragic laughs, and the lingering feeling is sadness and worry that maybe one day I will look around and realize "this is how my life turned out. Wasn't there supposed to be more?*
  • October 14, 2009
    A thorough smash of sweet dreams of middle class, as well as of pretentious people, like me. John Givings the psycho is the only one who can see through the whole picture; probably only schizo can resist & dealing with the harshness & ugliness off the real world. Or, one has to s...( read more)witch off his ear-trumpet otherwise. Kate Winslet is absolutely right on the beat for her character. Ok for Leonardo DiCaprio too although I didn't buy his acting except for his earlier work. Another decent & glamorous piece by Sam Mendes since [American Beauty] in 1999.
  • October 14, 2009
    I didnt really expect to much out of this movie & I didnt get to much either.Boring
  • October 12, 2009
    October 12th-13th 2009
  • October 9, 2009
    Leornado and Kate do an excellent job at keep up with such strong characters
  • October 9, 2009
    depressing tale of a stale suburban life and shattered dreams.

    Mid life crisis in about two hours, but set against a 1950s backdrop.
  • October 8, 2009
    A deteriorating relationship portrayed in a brutally honest way. Winslet is just awesome.
  • October 8, 2009
    I heard a lot of mixed reactions to this when it came out, but I still had high hopes. Like all Sam Mendes movies this is amazing technically, great cinematography and great camera work. However, this story is really freakin? melodramatic. The characters are complete drama que...( read more)ens and they argue incessantly for most of the movie. Di Caprio and Winslet do the best they can with the material but they really have a pretty thankless task. Mad Men is a much better take on this time period and there are also much better movies about domestic strife.
  • October 5, 2009
    Despite the weak storytelling, the actors did an amazing work!
  • October 4, 2009
    Understand, I always give the movie at least three stars just for Leo Decaprio!
  • October 3, 2009
    watch this, you will learn something from this one
  • September 30, 2009
    So boring, dull, oscar-wannabeish and unoriginal. Even Winslet couldn't save this film.
  • September 29, 2009
    This is an incredibly well-acted movie. The issue is that it is very dull in places, and quite drawn out. It is a complete study of the dissolution of a marriage/relationship in a way. Love & hate really do go hand in hand at times, because they are the strongest emotions. It is ...( read more)very realistic, but if you are having marital problems of your own it's probably not a good idea to watch it!!
  • September 27, 2009
    É o típico filme que que tira o espectador da sua zona de conforto. O casal de protagonistas, Kate Winslet e Leonardo DiCaprio, está perfeito, com atuações que passam todo o drama e as nuances que demonstram a profundidade dos personagens e a complexidade da trama.

    Aliás, a tram...( read more)a é das mais simples de se descrever: um casal em crise. Complexas de verdade são a natureza humana e a dificuldade de se depositar num relacionamento as esperanças e as frustrações pessoais.
  • September 25, 2009
    I rented this movie with the mindset of it being crap or just ok, after all i really hated TITANIC. But wow was i dead wrong! REVOLUTIONARY ROAD is an emotional rollercoaster ride! Amazing acting by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet! Its kind of a cautionary tale on how marriage...( read more) is Overrated.
  • September 21, 2009
    With good dialogues, quotes and an amazing chemestry this movie is definitely a piece of work. Being first just an avarage movie it's a story that you can relate, a story that is just so simple and once you start watching you thinkg 'I know someone like them/I am her'. It's easy ...( read more)to relate to, it's easy to enjoy and the performances were just mind blowing.
  • September 20, 2009
    Poignant, stunning and truthful. "Reservation Road" is one of the best pictures of the year. It is easily DiCaprio's and Winslet's best performance. Anyone thinking of getting married, is newly married or have been married for years needs to see this. It will scare you, shock you...( read more) and make you think about your relationship with your better half and reevaluate the kind of life you're living. The Psychotic Michael Shannon is superb as usual and is actually the most sane person in the film. I certainly hope to see this at the Oscars with five nominations including best supporting actor, best director and picture and ofcourse Best actor and actress.
  • September 19, 2009
    esta muy conmovedora la pelicula me gusto mucho pero el final wow no me gusto mucho = ( .
  • September 17, 2009
    Revolutionary Road is a very intense drama. Sam Mendes proves once again his dramatic genius in Revolutionary Road, and Winslet and DiCaprio come back together to the screen once again to prove they can really act and create such a diverse collection of emotions and situations th...( read more)roughout. Both performances are excellent, but obviiously Winslet steals the show with her incredibly bipolar, desperate and unstable personality as one of the greatest b!tches I've seen in cinema history. A gem.

    74/100
  • September 15, 2009
    It was a good movie, a lot of talk though. Both actors were great.
    I liked the fact that it didn't have a happy ending, it was different.
  • September 15, 2009
    simple yet remarkable...tackles the old time problems of married couples struggling against simplicity without stopping to dream..
  • September 14, 2009
    i dont like chick flix sorry lol
  • September 13, 2009
    wow, this movie addresses issues that everyone can relate to. And it doesn't dance around them or lay them on lightly. This movie opens up harshly and doesn't let up. This movie deals with living a lie, loving your life, following your dreams, and being responsible, being real...( read more)istic, being content...and finding the happy medium in between. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are amazing at playing torchured souls, lovers, and the most charming characters around! Great movie. Definitely check it out.

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