Not only is this movie genius I am a big kurt cobain fan and I think it explained what he went through and I loved every minute of it.

The film equivalent of an uncomfortable silence. Was this even a movie?

Sad but stunning, Pitt is superb. This film REALLY stays with you.

It's an awesome movie.

i usually love slow movies, but this movie makes 'dead man' look like 'moulin rouge'. Casey L was right on - many of the shots are WAY too long. even on fast forward. that said, it definitely evoked the lonley fog of drug addled misery.

This film is way too loosely constructed and it is pretentious to overlook the fact that it does little to captivate the audience. Michael Pitt's performance mostly consists in grunts and moans and is nothing to be proud of. The religious references throughout are puzzling and it feels like Van Sant is trying to make the average viewer see this as a film about a rockstar evading salvation until his untimely death. Formally speaking, this is not a movie about Cobain, and should not be seen as such. It is a fictional account of the life of an artist similar to Cobain, and as such is not biographically accurate. From the formalist perspective we also have no evidence that he is a junkie. These external interpretations detract from the essential lack of any true cohesion, since the entire film could be summed up in seven minutes. It is another silly attempt by Van Sant to create a film about an event without researching the event; in the nineties his work was excellent but lately he has been trying way too hard to appeal to the sycophantic art critic who actually does not have much of an aesthetic sense. The only redeeming features are Harmony Korine's chat about D&D with Jerry Garcia and when Blake (not Kurt) falls off the stretcher. I can understand people feeling a certain need to praise a film about Nirvana but this isn't what Van Sant set out to do. It is a loosely-constructed showcase of cinematography accompanied Moore and Westerkamp's excellent soundscape, but the plot itself is weak and boring. There are better things to do than to waste 97 minutes on this film.… Expand

People who use the words chick, crap or dude (in any context) should be sent to a gas chamber. Thank you.

This must be the movie that drove Kurt Cobain to suicide.

Wow, I can't think of a worse movie, and I am a huge Cobain fan. The movie does nothing but show Kurt as a mute, incoherent right handed guitar player (he was a lefty!). I was so disappointed I had to immediatly watch "Almost Famous" to get the sour taste out of my mouth.

Oh my God! I am still wondering why someone could produce this terrible mixed up story. I think you have to be on drugs to understand this movie. Not Good at ALL!!!!!

I would have to say that this film missed its purpose completely. Yes, it shows that Blake's last days were filled with people wanting stuff from him, and he was constantly up on drugs, and what a lonely way the famed Nirvana frontman died. However, if this was to be a tribute, the movie would have had to make me feel close to "Blake", who, in the end, I didn't care about at all. Micheal Bay is charged with having too many short shots in his films. Well, this film was filled with stupid shots that if cut by 20 seconds would still be too long. I'm sad that a film about a man I am a fan of made me feel more distant than close to understanding his last days.… Expand

Yhes a good movie.

Somber look at the last couple of days trudging through the mundane life of a rockstar. The film has remained in the background of my thoughts for days after the screening. Initially I was unsure of the impact it would have on me, however, the final scene did evoke emotions that I had suppressed since the untimely death of Kurt Cobain. Michael Pitt succeeds in embracing the character as well as Kilmer did for Morrison and Carey did for Kaufman. Great location selection and shot with care, I left the theatre glad that Van Sant shared this project with us.… Expand

Really bad, very dissapointing.

Such a disappointing movie. Trite.

Not a single redeeming feature. Oh wait, there's one - it ended.

Beautiful and disturbing. Not for everyone though. It's like another fraction of Cobain's mediatic persona. Una pelicula para contemplar y sufrir, pero vale la pena.

i seriously can't believe that so many critics rated this film so highly. i thought it was one of the most boring things i've ever seen and can't think of one single redeemable feature. if it says anything, it's that being a drug addict on the verge of suicide is dull as dishwater. there, now you know - don't waste your time watching it.

A lot of visual beauty and the effect of spying on someone whose brain has gone to mush is kind of captivating for about the first hour. The problem with this movie is that Van Sant's method (I learned from watching the bonus section) is to create 'atmospheres' and then to let his actors improvise within those environments. But the actors come off in the bonus footage like idiots. Not just stoners, but truly shallow in the case of Lukas Haas whose story in the film about having sex with a hot asian girl with an amazing body while on tour with his band and then brushing her off and writing a song about it was true. He also talks about his first 'gay sex scene' and how he asked the director to put in some hetero stuff with his character 'to make the sexuality more ambiguous', which just comes off like frat guy-quality homophobia. So the problem with this film is that if you get a bunch of shallow pretty boy actors and let them supply the content of the film, you get shallow content. The other problem is that at first Michael Pitt is embodying Kurt Cobain, but as soon as the movie introduces him as "Blake", the effect goes away and you feel like you're just watching more of a cliche than a character. It reduces Cobain to a type, rather than an individual and I think stories about junkie rock stars are pretty played out. The format and aesthetic of this movie ask a lot of your time and concentration, and I feel that the director here, as in Elephant, isn't supplying the audience with enough in the way of content to make it worth it.… Expand

I had no idea what the movie was about when I went and was in pain while watching it yet determined not to walk out. Days later my mind keeps going back to it-it has a haunting qualtity. I grudingly admire its originality but you would have to be very careful about recommending this film. Most people will hate it.

Wonderful movie, well crafted and seems to clear up some of the mystery surrounding Kurt, although it states at the end the movie it is a work of fiction, it is based on Kurts last days.

After I saw Elephant I was already expecting something with the same style. I think the film on the whole was disappointing but it kept me watching for some reason. The movie is a good excuse for

Cheech & Chong doing Shakespeare meets the Brady Bunch who then forget about meeting Cheech & Chong.

This movie was absolutely ridiculous! i am a fan of Cobain and i think that this was the most disrespectful and useless films i've seen. i regret watching. i want to put in his cd immediately in order to get that horrible portrayal out of my head. shame.

This film is horrible. I was a huge Nirvana fan in 90's. I have all of Kurt's records, read all of the biographies and saw the interviews. This film has nothing to do with Kurt. It is a very slow, boring, artsy film. Barely no dialogue and zero plot. After an hour of excruciating pain, I had to turn it off.

I felt like I was in detention. I don't know how the New York Times could justify calling this an "indesputably great film." It was so boring, and so slow that critics were afraid to bash it for fear of being seen as shallow or stupid. And seriously, even his soul was slow. That's just stupid.

Anyone who doesnt think this movie is great is clearly a moron. It is Art. It is a concept of what thelast days might have been like. If you shop at the GAP or enjoy Vin Disel Movies dont see this. You wont get it and you never will. All those who gave poor reviews... please do us all a favor and go away. This is not my opinion this is artistic fact.

Terrible. Perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen, and I've seen "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation."