Cosmopolis Reviews Part 5: "Robert Pattinson is quite astonishing in the role as Packer"
I feel like we're a blog possessed. So many great responses to Rob's performance, we can't help but post them. This is going to operate as part 5 and possibly be the last part until US promo kicks up a new slew of reviews.
A nice update to the battle with Rotten Tomatoes: Cosmopolis is currently FRESH. :) Several fans and myself have been working on getting them to post the positive reviews we've been reading. I've been in communication with a staffer named Tim and he let me know the criteria for Tomatometer critics and publications. After sadly tossing out over 20 positive reviews because they didn't count, 4 others were found and sent to Tim. The movie went fresh this morning when he emailed me to say he added those. :)) (They're The Observer, Independent and London Standard added in this post.
Ottawa Citizen was the 4th but there wasnt a clear Rob mention. She gave the film 3 out of 5 stars though and that qualifies it for a fresh review for Rotten Tomatoes.) With Rob an admitted reader of RT and the average Joe popularizing the site, it's a positive campaign to work at getting those missed reviews their way.
I suspect the percentage will go up and down. The film isn't certified fresh yet and it continues to receive overall mixed reviews, but we'll keep working at it.
MotivationalRob said in that video we posted yesterday, "If you feel like the world has been taken away from you, figure out how to take it back." At the time, I said I didn't know what "it" meant for me. Guess it meant Rotten Tomatoes for now. LOL
Here's the latest crop of positive remarks for Rob. He's also been getting great responses from fanboys on twitter and I included a couple reviews that are from their blogs. While the film gets mixed feedback, Rob continues to get a majority of praise for his role as Eric Packer. :))
From
Cinehouse (UK):
Robert Pattinson is quite astonishing in the role as Packer, he is ice cold
and inhumane in the best possible and almost alien like as in David
Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth. He perfectly captures the
psychosis of a man who has everything but wants nothing except he has a
death wish. The supporting cast is very fine throughout with Paul
Giamatti and Juliette Bincohe as highlights.
I don’t think the film will have a wide audience but very Cronenberg films have one except for The Fly. Twilight
fans will obviously not understand it one bit and will be turned off by
which was evident in my screening I attended. Critics have been
completely mixed even though a lot have praised Pattinson’s turn. I
think it’s a truly fascinating but deliberately artificial film about a
man’s descend into pure unadulterated nihilism but no the cheerful
entertaining nihilism of Fight Club but something much more
sinister. After a string of very fine films recently I think I may have
found an early contender for film of the year. A lot will hate but if
you can get what Cronenberg is trying to do you will be engrossed even
with it's deliberately alienating cinematic devices.
From
Uptown:
In the final act, Pattinson faces off against Paul Giamatti, in a scene
that is both terrifying and entertaining. It’s a lot of fun to watch
these two actors trading barbs, and it brings to mind another Cronenberg
film, A History of Violence, in which William Hurt faces off against
Viggo Mortensen. Hurt received an Oscar nomination for the climactic
scene (which lasted less than 10 minutes) and it wouldn’t be a shocker
if Giamatti was recognized for his work here.
From
The Guardian/The Observer (4 out of 5 stars):
As played with frightening conviction by Robert Pattinson he's a Gatsby-esque figure, remote, inscrutable and doomed.
From
24 frames per second:
As with most of David Cronenberg's work, there is a lot to say about Cosmopolis,
but the first thing that has to be noted is the film's big shock (not
in a plot sense, don't worry). I've said some very rude things about
Robert Pattinson's performances in the Twilight series (and, sorry fans,
I stand by every syllable), but he's revelatory here. The first point
of comparison that comes to mind is Hayden Christensen's unexpectedly
great performance in Shattered Glass. To begin with, Packer is
something of a blank slate - this is a studied and affected pose, and
Pattinson is effective playing it as such - but as the film goes on, as
we penetrate the impossibly wordy and constructed dialogue, there are
layers peeled back by the differences in the ways he interacts with the
different people who drift through the film.
...
Paul Giamatti, who by rights ought to steal the film when he turns up,
but doesn't, because he seems to power Pattinson's own performance on to
ever greater heights, and that scene becomes one of the unlikeliest
great acting scenes of the year. The other really outstanding moment is
the most awkward lunch date I've seen in ages, in which Packer and
Elise talk at each other in a series of non-sequiters, Pattinson and
Gadon are both brilliant here, effortlessly communicating everything
about their marriage, though the dialogue is very indirect.
From
The Independent:
What the film does explore, mesmerisingly, is the riddle of how to turn a
book about a limo ride into an experience that is itself a ride – or
rather a glide. Such is the film's out-and-out otherness that Robert
Pattinson – who puts up a strong, wryly amused show as the savagely
blank Eric – himself becomes a stylistic element among many. This is a
surpassingly odd film that some will reject outright, but I was totally
won over. Cosmopolis may, like Packer's limo, be an elaborately conceived but essentially vacant vehicle – yet it has a master at the wheel.
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