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lachyas

Elijah Wood is really cornering the market in quirky sidekicks in amateur detective mysteries.

7 years 2 months ago

rabsi1

First half was an awesome and funny quirky comedy, then there's a weird tonal shift it the film peters out towards the end. Shame, but I liked it on the whole.

6 years 11 months ago

it felt a little clunky at times, but overall i enjoyed it, its very much in the "whatever happens happens" category of movies, it felt a lot like blue ruin, although blue ruin is far superior.
in this one, a few of the twists and turns just weren't as believable, and it left less of an impact on me.

7 years 2 months ago

catherinefrances

This movie was quite average, however the second half of the film picked up and I really started to enjoy the characters.

7 years 1 month ago

TomReagan

Totally agree with @rabsi1 - I enjoyed it (for the most part) until it got all Tarantino-esque. Decent performances from the two protagonists.

6 years 8 months ago

Supposeably

Really enjoyed it! An alternate (more humourous) universe than Blue Ruin, Green Room, etc etc. Really ramped up the violence towards the end, a few gruesome moments I hadn't anticipated. Lots of unpleasant characters!

PS. David Yow is really not getting any more attractive with age, is he? :P

4 years 4 months ago

Siskoid

I completely agree with a lot of reviewers that with I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, first-time director Macon Blair is channeling his friend Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) in terms of look, atmosphere, and basic plot (it's a fiasco story about a woman who ends her push-over days and joins forces with the neighborhood oddball to get revenge on the small-time crooks who broke into her house and stole her grandmother's silverware, in a woodland town). However, I do not agree that it could essentially be set in the same universe, because Blair's is a moralistic and karmic one. I'm reminded on Chinese crime thrillers like SPL or Johnnie To's entire filmography, where Fate (or guardian angels) is responsible for some of the more incredible moments. Essentially, this universe rewards those who do good, and punishes those who do bad, but it also requires you to be active. That's the reason Ruth's karmic balance is off at the start of the film. She's too passive. Once she takes a hand, even in her own affairs, things start to move forward, and her eccentric side-kick (Elijah Wood making a good low-rent partner for Melanie Lynskey's unlikely heroine) is in touch with something - a naive mix of Zen and Christianity - that helps her right the balance. It's all about people being in over their heads on both sides, and there's a lot of "happy/sad" humor in that, possibly my favorite tone for anything.

5 years 8 months ago