Stronger (2017)

The Worst Film Ever

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A sad, sloppy movie filled with F bombs, drunks, arrogant hotheads. loud-mouthed low-life's and unlikeable characters...just didn't generate the sympathy factor. I went away from this movie vowing never to go to Boston for any reason

Stronger is a film I wish would be so much better. But it only hits all the marks in the last half an hour. Before that it's a bland tale of a guy who suffers through the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing. Perhaps director David Gordon Green did this one for all the people who really lived through this disastrous day but he (or the film) forgets about all the other viewers. The last 30 minutes are emotional, sad and touching. And the real life images of Jeff Bauman (here played by Jake Gyllenhaal) are more heart-wrenching than the whole movie. That's not that good for the movie. It's just good for us so that we can feel good about sharing a tear with this man over his bitter fate.

Jeff Baumann is likeable but unreliable. He suffers a double amputation above the knee as a result of the Boston Marathon bombing. The road to a new life is not any easy one for him or for his nearest and dearest.So this is a true-life story, with Jake Gyllenhaal as Baumann. No surprises, we've seen it all before, right?Wrong. I was surprised at how intensely emotional this film is, and often in ways I would hardly have expected. One of the scenes which was surprisingly moving was when Jeff's manager from Costco arrives at the hospital while Jeff's survival is still uncertain, to be met with a barrage of hostility from Jeff's family, when all he wanted to do was go through the formalities of the insurance cover which Costco provides for Jeff: simple, almost non-essential, but powerfully visceral.This film involved me from start to finish. The events were horrifying, the characters are all deeply flawed but fundamentally decent, and the way the story developed was engaging and moving. It was oftifficult to watch, but ultimately very rewarding.

Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Like with "Patriot's Day" Stronger is a missed call from start to finish since except the fact that it's kinda bland it's also boring something that a film of this kind and an important message that it tries to tell shouldn't be. Jake Gyllenhaal's perfomance was alright for the most part but the rest of the cast and the perfomances in general were dull, especially the romance and some of the jokes that were in the film were completely not needed to be in there. Also i don't get it why everyone named him a "hero" since he wasn't that like ever in the entire film, he was just a normal pal that liked videogames and had an obsession with this girl just that and nothing more but they tried to make the film something more than it was and for that i found it boring and bland. (4/10)