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26

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  • Summary: When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie (Shia LaBeouf) immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. But when he meets a fellow passenger, Charlie finds himself with another promise to fulfill. Charlie does so – and falls head over heels in love w with Gabi (Evan Rachel Wood), a beautiful musician. However, a vicious gangster has already laid claim to Gabi, and has no intention of letting her go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into the hallucinatory, Romanian underworld filled with violence and, strangely enough, love. [Millennium Entertainment] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
  1. Reviewed by: Justin Lowe
    Oct 11, 2013
    70
    Fredrik Bond makes a promising feature debut with this fanciful crime-drama romance that gratifyingly eschews strict genre classification.
  2. Reviewed by: Rodrigo Perez
    Oct 11, 2013
    33
    Charlie Countryman opens up with an interesting first section, but only backslides deeper and deeper in its overwrought and incoherent second and third acts.
  3. Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Oct 11, 2013
    10
    Fredrik Bond’s direction and Matt Drake’s screenplay deliver a charisma-free trip into a world of gratuitous violence, contrivances and tedium.
  4. Reviewed by: Jordan Hoffman
    Oct 11, 2013
    0
    A pastiche of bad film cliches and scenes devoid of any real conflict or character development.

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