Translation Movie Reviews

I'm the biggest Bill Murray fan on the planet, but that being said...[was not his best.] I was all pumped up, the newspaper reviews said he'd probably be an Oscar nominee for this role and I though "Great, Bill's finally going to get that Oscar he deserves for entertaining us all for so many years." My wife and I looked at each other after the first 20 minutes and started laughing...laughing because this movie [was so horible.] For only the second time in our 10-year marriage, we walked out of the movie before it ended (after 60 minutes of yawn after yawn) and we see on average 15 movies per year. Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Scrooged...the list goes on and on...Bill Murray is one of the great entertainers of our time, but this horrible movie will forever be a black mark by his name.

... it is terrible! Just shot after shot of low energy staring out of windows at Tokyo. Where is the charm? All in the trailer! I did think the trailer was funny, but then there was all this other film in between the good moments. ...

i loved this movie. it's a beautifully shot movie and johanson and murray are very special, both having the ability to be wry and subtle and very attractive.

i also liked the story very much and the pacing, which is slow. but hey, i have all the time in the world to wander tokyo with scarlett and bill.

why only 4 stars, you ask? because i hated the ending. it struck me as annoyingly clever, but without purpose, and therefore a waste of my time. it was important for me to hear what he said at the end. in fact, that was the most important thing to me in the movie and i was cheated out of it for absolutely no good reason. perhaps the writer couldn't sort it out.

I'm the biggest Bill Murray fan on the planet, but that being said...[was not his best.] I was all pumped up, the newspaper reviews said he'd probably be an Oscar nominee for this role and I though "Great, Bill's finally going to get that Oscar he deserves for entertaining us all for so many years." My wife and I looked at each other after the first 20 minutes and started laughing...laughing because this movie [was so horible.] For only the second time in our 10-year marriage, we walked out of the movie before it ended (after 60 minutes of yawn after yawn) and we see on average 15 movies per year. Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Scrooged...the list goes on and on...Bill Murray is one of the great entertainers of our time, but this horrible movie will forever be a black mark by his name.

... it is terrible! Just shot after shot of low energy staring out of windows at Tokyo. Where is the charm? All in the trailer! I did think the trailer was funny, but then there was all this other film in between the good moments. ...

i loved this movie. it's a beautifully shot movie and johanson and murray are very special, both having the ability to be wry and subtle and very attractive.

i also liked the story very much and the pacing, which is slow. but hey, i have all the time in the world to wander tokyo with scarlett and bill.

why only 4 stars, you ask? because i hated the ending. it struck me as annoyingly clever, but without purpose, and therefore a waste of my time. it was important for me to hear what he said at the end. in fact, that was the most important thing to me in the movie and i was cheated out of it for absolutely no good reason. perhaps the writer couldn't sort it out.