Review of St. Vincent (2014) by Tom B — 06 Feb 2016

This review refers to - as usual here - to the original version with subtitles.

As already mentioned here several times, the outstanding performance of Bill Murray is simply irresistible. In my opinion this is his best performance to date! It doesn't feel like acting - it feels, he is living his part!

Completely surprised I am by the very "quiet" and restrained representation of m. mccarthy - very good.

The big Naomi Watts, ranking world number 1 movie-actress, at first I did not even recognize. She enacts the Russian whore-with-a-big-heart just so convincingly, as I expect it from the number one. Wow!

The role of the boy is cast really good too.

The story itself is pretty predictable and it happens nothing really surprising plotwise.

For me, the boy acts sometimes a little too grown-up in some scenes, given his young age.

Slightly exaggerated - but of course so typically American - I finally experienced the enormously tear-jerking speech at the end.

But hey, so be it, cos the great performances of the cast more than make up for these minor shortcomings of the script (or was it the producers?).

Conclusion: a very nice little writer-director-film by Theo Melfi with outstanding performers...

Rating = 85%.

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