Franklyn (2008)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

In The Tradition Of Movies Like Crash, Magnolia (A Brilliant Movie), Babel. Pulp Fiction We Follow 4 Different Stories As They Slowly Weave Together Becoming In The End One Story ... Ryan Phillippe Is A Detective Seeking Justice For A Dead 6 Year Old Girl ... Bernard Hill A Worried Father Looking For His Lost Son ... Sam Riley A Man Looking To Replace The Love He Has Lost ... Eva Green An Artist That Suffers Through Multiple Suicide Attempts For Her Art ... These 4 Lives Are Thrown Together In What Appears To Be A Perfect Religious Society ... Like The Movies This One Imitates This Is A Brilliant Story That Reminds Us That As Large As The World Is It Is Very Tiny In The Scope Of All Things ... We Are not Alone, We Live, Suffer, Laugh, Cry, Rejoice, Etc .. Together ... The Writing Is Excellent As Well As The Acting ... Special Credit To Gerald McMorrow's Direction, His Ability To Keep Such A Huge Story In Front Of The Camera From Beginning To End Was Amazing ... Also It Would Be Wrong To Not Mention Those Who Handled The Production Design, Art Direction, Set Decoration And Costume Design ... Original And Enticing This Is Not A Movie To Be Missed ... In A World Gone Mad Hope Survives

This movie has the potential to be one of my favorite movies. here is why I hate it instead: The movie starts out like a fantastic, mesmerizing, amazing steam-punk/fantasy world/masterpiece and in addition there are some great, clever lines about religion that I can only highly agree with, but soon the viewer realizes, that the story takes place in the normal world instead - that's it with the great setting/the great Meanwhile City, poof and gone. Instead it is a regular garden variety crime story/drama and not just that, it turns out to be a story of immense injustice - what naive characters may consider romantic is the proof that this world is a heap of BS: that stupid Milo gets the happy ending, why? And why not David? David is not a bad man, on the contrary, and he is the one who can not be lulled (he recognizes the Theodicy dilemma (If a god is willing to prevent evil, but not able, then he is not omnipotent. If he is able, called but not willing, then he must be malevolent. If he is neither able or willing then why call him a god? Why else do bad things happen to good people?). He is just unlucky. He experiences evil / traumatic / unsettling/sickening experiences (the loss of the sister, war experiences, an annoyingly religious father - just think of: "It was God's will that our daughter died" -duh) and along with an unlucky, genetic predisposition to mental instability this makes him a condemned soul and his only way out is death, while fate brings other people a happy ending - that is pure injustice, depressing, unsatisfying, typical !! Not everyone's "life is too much of an adventure as it is without making anything else up" - blah blah, stupid chatter of lucky people, who understand nothing. -The ultimate injustice, a bullshit end - as David said it himself: "they neglect to see (...) the damage that fate causes so many in its selfish journey towards just one favorable consequence." Milo is the one favorable thing that happens and everybody else including/esp. David are the losers and have to suffer a cruel fate. Disgusting, depressing, I wish I hadn't watched it, I misjudged it, I was misguided by the nice pictures of Meanwhile city which the movie happily blasts away in the end.

Pretty much agree entirely with Neil Welch's review on here. Though personally I'd give it about a 4, because I did derive some enjoyment from Franklyn.But they needed to sit down and re-edit the plot lines once they had the basics down. Essentially they started booking the cast, cgi and catering before they had the whiteboard flow-charting fully scribbled out.At about the half-way mark I commented to my partner, in words approximated thus - "I have a dreadful feeling that this is one of those films where they think they can get away with three {I hadn't noticed it was four yet - ed.} separate completely un-related threads and call it a film." Ie. the kind of thing that a 22 year old film student thinks is "terribly, frightfully original" whereas in fact it's been tried time and again and it *never* works, the threads must be related in some way. And the relationship needs to be a good one, an artistically whole one (for an example of completely failing to do this, take Jane-I-Swear-Its-Art-Campion's utterly disastrous 'Holy Smoke').Eventually my fears were allayed but... it still didn't quite work. Along with Neil I have to say that Milo really didn't need to be there. The only reason the adult Sally looked like Emelia was his chance meeting in the park when she was stalking him for her video project. Come on, thats a very tenuous link. And the cleaners got to be mysterious know-it-all figures without any real justification: it was hinted that they shared the same space as Sally, but hints weren't enough by this stage of the film, it should have been coming together not getting vaguer.And one more thing. Can we please stop praising Eva Green. If you want to get into her pants, contact her agent. She only has one act, and it's bloody annoying. It suited her role in Penny Dreadful, it suits her role here as the direly, *direly* narcissistic Emelia. But either way, I just wanted somebody to step in, yell "you're a parasitic w*nker!" and punch her in the face. Her tutor *almost* gave me satisfaction, but even he ended up one of the film's insipid roadkill elements.Can't bring myself to hate this film because there was so much I liked about it, but gaaaahhh, somebody needs a stern talking-to.

Billed as having a story from parallel worlds that collide. Not so, the utterly fantastic (and I believe should have been a film on it's own) world of Meanwhile City resides solely in the heavily delusional mind of the "central" character. The characters Milo and Emilia have almost no bearing on the films core story, they only become relevant near the end when they become "innocent bystanders" in the single-sided pseudo-conflict between the characters David and his father Peter.I believe that if Franklyn had been a story of two parallel worlds that crossed paths, and not simply a real world and a delusional world, then it could have been a truly great film.