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- 2013
- R
- Millennium Entertainment
- 1 h 43 m
- 2013
- R
- Millennium Entertainment
- 1 h 43 m
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.
Directed By: Fredrik Bond
Written By: Matt Drake
- 2013
- R
- Millennium Entertainment
- 1 h 43 m
- 2013
- R
- Millennium Entertainment
- 1 h 43 m
Charlie Countryman
31
6.4
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.
Directed By: Fredrik Bond
Written By: Matt Drake
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
31
15% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
30% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
55% Negative
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
31
15% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
30% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
55% Negative
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
Fredrik Bond makes a promising feature debut with this fanciful crime-drama romance that gratifyingly eschews strict genre classification.
A caper thriller that's sufficiently zippy to hold the attention. LaBeouf's current notoriety adds extra piquancy to those urban fight scenes.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
6.4
58% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
18% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
24% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
6.4
58% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
18% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
24% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Charlie Countryman is just a fantastic movie.
The cast are great with Shia Labeouf, Evan Rachel Wood and Mads Mikkelsenm playing spectacular roles as the main characters. They fill the roles with so much passion and emotion, this is what really helps to connect to a movie of this sort.
I must also say that the music fitted in perfectly well with the screenplay and it also brought in such an amazing feeling and connectivity as I watched.
There just a real depth and richness about this movie that so many movies fail to capture these days.
All things into account, Charlie Countryman 10/10
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In a film this hapless, it’s hardly a surprise that no one can keep Bucharest and Budapest straight.
An egregious entry into the pantheon of films about white Americans traveling to exotic lands in search of identity and soul-searching adventure.
LaBeouf and Wood don't clang, but they don't quite click, either. That's not enough for the film to persuade us of its message, that love is worth any sacrifice.
This catastrophe of a movie zigzags drunkenly between action-adventure and surreal comedy with some magical realism slopped over it like ketchup.
A pastiche of bad film cliches and scenes devoid of any real conflict or character development.
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Odesa International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
