Review of Cosmopolis (2012) by Saad K — 25 Sep 2012

Cosmopolis - TRASH IT (C-).

In recent times David Cronenberg has to come out of his so-called-art vision and present something more easy and understandable like A History of Violence. In his previous attempts, he tried to present the story in such tedious way that just like his characters you're also lost in translation. Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method & now Cosmopolis are victim of his tedious presentation. Among these, "A Dangerous Method" works in parts only as under all that so-called-artistic presentation there was a harsh love story, infidelity and rivalry between three legends of sexual psychologist.

Sadly this isn't the case in Cosmopolis, I'm personally fed up of watching movies about young rich people finding purpose of their lives. A loner billionaire goes across the town in his limo for a haircut in the mist of chaos on the streets as he intentionally sabotage his billion dollar empire maybe seemed like interesting in Don Delillo's book but on screen it's the most tedious & time wasting experience. David Cronenberg failed to make some sense of the whole concept as he made something not understandable by common minded people or even intellectuals.

The movie which was hyped and promoted as Robert Pattison's most wild sex scenes has nothing except Rob lying and women riding him. Though I have to agree that prostate examination of Rob was appalling at first but the most sensual scene in the end. Rob's expression and vain on his forehead is simply priceless. Robert Pattison's performance is good but when the character just doesn't make sense it's just hard to appreciate. Shooting bullet through his hand has to be his most interesting scene in Cosmopolis. Sarah Gadon is sensual. Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti & Kevin Durand are good.

In the end if you see someone appreciating this movie on the name of art is just trying to come off as more smarter than you because let's be honest Cosmopolis don't make any sense at all.