SummaryProbing the blurry lines between paranoia and nightmarish reality, Bug is an intense, mind-bending psychological thriller in which nothing is quite as it seems. (Lionsgate)
SummaryProbing the blurry lines between paranoia and nightmarish reality, Bug is an intense, mind-bending psychological thriller in which nothing is quite as it seems. (Lionsgate)
This film is a huge **** It starts off interesting and ends perfectly and it shows just how far 2 people can go into madness. I think the leads were great and played their roles perfectly. I really liked this film.
Genuinely freaky-deaky, not to mention more inventively unsettling than anything Friedkin has mustered in the quarter-century since twisting little Linda Blair into a satanic spewer of pea soup and F-bombs.
It's a tough one to recommend to everyone. Just know now this isn't a horror film as they're making it out to be nor is it a true return to form for Friedkin. Even so, it's worth seeing but perhaps as a DVD rental further down the road.
A humorless picture, a somber, arty exercise in deep denial of its exploitation roots. The dialogue is stiff and mechanical and the performances are too.
**** great. Utterly mis-marketed. Michael Shannon gives a spellbinding performance that will stand the test of time with some of the great characters of the last 20 years.
Bug is a movie that was criminally mis-advertised when it was first released almost 15 years ago. This is not a horror movie. This is an incredibly well written, directed, and acted psychological thriller about schizophrenia and what is real and what isn't. Even by the end of the movie, I couldn't tell you what actually happened and what didn't. William Friedkin's direction is claustrophobic and tense. Tracy Letts' script is powerful and riveting. The performances of Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon are iconic. If you like thrillers or journeys through the psyche of characters, you will probably really like this film!
The plot is interesting but its rather confusing as well and will probably require a second watch or even a third to really understand it. The acting is amazing though and the cast is severely underrated imo. Michael Shannon plays his part perfectly. Its well worth the watch imo.
This is a very strange film. A friend recommended it to me, so I went for it. In the beginning I was excited, I thought it had potential, for it seemed an original idea; but after the first 30 minutes, it started becoming slow, and so repetitive that I started predicting what will **** I better say: I thought that nothing more interesting will happen- and I was right. Still, I had hope. Nevertheless, the movies started losing its appeal and became disturbingly monotonous, almost soporific. Sadly, It ended up being just a below average movie with great performances. It was so tedious that there was a point in which I only wanted the movie to finish, so I could take it out and play another one! Someone may say that this is a good movie for those interested in human psyche! Yeah, it **** well I am a sociologist and anthropologist, doing my PhD in cognitive-aesthetic Anthropology, so I am definitely into human psyche, and even though this movie explores some aspects of it, yet, it ends up being a cliche. As a scientist, I don't think is truly psychological film, but a psycho-mess; but, The producers want you to believe that this is a clever, original, resourceful, incredible psychological thriller, when it is not! (Evidently, this is not horror,). There were also many lose things; I am sure it wasn't purposedly for in this case, ambiguity doesn't add anything to the movie, but the opposite. Some possible questions, however, were subtlely answered: after the credits, we heard the phone ringing and the camera leads us to the room, where is stops and shows us some toys; thus, we can infer that what they are trying to tell us is that the one calling was the kid, Lloyd, who by that time would be 16yo. As a whole, lots of talking, but a static, tiresome plot . The ending : Predictable! An Interesting idea for a movie that ended up going nowhere. Somehow, I feel cheated!...
C’est un huis-clos tiré d’une pièce de théâtre (ceci expliquant cela…) et l’un des meilleurs rôles d’Ashley Judd, excellente actrice au demeurant, actrice aussi jolie que sexy avec ce quelque chose en plus qui manque à bien des actrices plus célèbres sans doute mais dépourvues de…. comment pourrait-on l’appeler, ce fameux « quelque chose » ?… ah oui, du charisme !
La voici donc dans le rôle d’une dépressive alcoolique, volontiers camée également et un brin cinglée… mais ce n’est rien en comparaison d’un gugusse qui va débarquer dans sa vie ou même de son taré d’ex-mari volontiers violent (en plus d’être con) qui vient régulièrement l’emmerder ! la paranoïa vient donc envahir cette chambre de motel morne et sans espérances…
Cependant, la démonstration de ce cheminement impromptu vers la folie se montre décidément trop caricaturale et lourdingue (comme c’est souvent le cas avec les films de dingos, hélas) et finit par fatiguer sensiblement au bout d’une heure… et comme ça dure encore 40 minutes à peu près, ça devient répétitif et… très prévisible.
Le film n’a donc que pour principal intérêt la brillante Ashley et une ambiance de toqués plus ou moins (sévèrement) atteints ; Bug aurait pu mieux s’en sortir avec un bon quart d’heure en moins et une mise en scène moins plate… dommage !