Bliss

Name: Bliss
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Released: February 5, 2021
Rating: 40
Cast: DeRon Horton, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Joshua Leonard, Madeline Zima, Mercy Malick

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Amazon Studios | Release Date (Streaming): February 5, 2021 | R

Starring: DeRon Horton, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Joshua Leonard, Madeline Zima, Mercy Malick, Nesta Cooper, Owen Wilson, Ronny Chieng, Salma Hayek, Steve Zissis

Summary: An unfulfilled man (Owen Wilson) and a mysterious woman (Salma Hayek) believe they are living in a simulated reality, but when their newfound ‘Bliss’ world begins to bleed into the ‘ugly’ world they must decide what’s real and where they truly belong.

Director: Mike Cahill

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama

Rating: R

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Vince Mancini

Feb 4, 2021

Cahill is so effective at blurring the lines and making both “realities” feel equally plausible that it’s hard not to feel your own reality attenuating as you watch it. Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek, something of an odd couple on paper, are also perfectly cast. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Feb 8, 2021

Trippy and entertaining mind-bender. Read full review

Tara Brady

Feb 5, 2021

Expect head-scratching, some non-sequiturs and lots of quirks and Bliss will mostly entertain and consistently baffle. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Feb 4, 2021

I wish the results were better, and a lot stranger. Cahill’s world-building has its moments, though. And the filmmaker did determine — correctly — that it’d be fun to have Bill Nye, the science guy, in a bow tie, portraying a sniffy scientific researcher. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Feb 2, 2021

As with both of his previous works, the filmmaker delivers an undeniably ambitious mind-bender that bites off more than it can narratively chew. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Feb 4, 2021

Life might be messy and weird and scary, but it possesses more honesty than this cinematic misery. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Feb 1, 2021

Completely miscast, egregiously plotted and ludicrous in absolutely every single other way, Bliss is a true cinematic disasterpiece. Read full review

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Faldo71

May 6, 2021

An amazing story that tells the story about a person lost in the abuse of drugs, living in his own alternate reality not knowing what is real and not any more. It is a real heartbreaking story if you understand what is happening in the movie. It is sad that people do not seam to understandAn amazing story that tells the story about a person lost in the abuse of drugs, living in his own alternate reality not knowing what is real and not any more. It is a real heartbreaking story if you understand what is happening in the movie. It is sad that people do not seam to understand the movie and what it is really about. Even the description of the movie on IMDb is totally wrong for some odd reason. To me this movie was excellently executed. If you know people how have struggled with similar issues you will probably understand the movie and the story a bit better.… Expand

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anduman

Feb 9, 2021

Eternal Matrix of the Spotless Mind

This film currently has a low rating (38 critic, 5.4 user) and many bad reviews. But I've read some these reviews, and all of the bad ones and even some of the good ones - misunderstood the film or didn't understand it fully. I can see this film becomingEternal Matrix of the Spotless Mind

This film currently has a low rating (38 critic, 5.4 user) and many bad reviews. But I've read some these reviews, and all of the bad ones and even some of the good ones - misunderstood the film or didn't understand it fully. I can see this film becoming cult in the future.
This film explores and exploits the idea of the unreliable narrator to the maximum. It poses so many questions, answers them, but then takes away the answer. It keeps the two far sides of the possibility so precisely balanced and strong, that you could tie a string in-between, and the tension would be literally palpable. The tension that keeps guessing and wondering the entire film, until the Very Last Second.
This film is incredibly dystopian but also incredibly utopian at the same time, and you can't help but feel for the only unlucky bastard in the world, who might know the absolute truth.… Expand

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Txe

Mar 4, 2021

Brilliant film, really well acted and even disturbing at times. Is it reality? Is it an alter reality? Everything relates to the first10 minutes

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EpicSurvivor

Feb 6, 2021

Pretty good movie. An enjoyable ride. Good actors. Really enjoyed. 7/10 worth a watch.

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MrIslamic

Feb 8, 2021

It's not a bad movie, just very dull and forgettable. I would rate it lower but I think the deeper meaning of the story is very good (The deeper meaning is about how the main character is suffering from drug addiction and mental illness. Almost everything you see in the movie is just in theIt's not a bad movie, just very dull and forgettable. I would rate it lower but I think the deeper meaning of the story is very good (The deeper meaning is about how the main character is suffering from drug addiction and mental illness. Almost everything you see in the movie is just in the main character's head, so the main character is an unreliable narrator.)… Expand

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NamasteOkay

Feb 7, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This movie deserves a higher rating. Absolutely phenomenal! Newly divorced and just fired... probably due to his mind focused on this alleged, "second" life he has. Drawing pictures at work of his second home and not showing his kids mother any attention led him to receiving termination and a divorce, along with residency at the hotel. His "soul mate" just was lying and really wanted her experiment to work out, so getting him to forget his family just wasn't happening! I watched it twice and probably will watch it again. Great film!… Expand

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lehtix

Apr 2, 2021

The cringe haunts me every day. I can't get it out of my head. The movie was so TERRIBLE, and SO CRINGEY, that I don't even know what to think. Sure, drugs are a hell of drug. But this movie is so anti drug that they go through great lengths to make it the cringest thing imaginable. NotableThe cringe haunts me every day. I can't get it out of my head. The movie was so TERRIBLE, and SO CRINGEY, that I don't even know what to think. Sure, drugs are a hell of drug. But this movie is so anti drug that they go through great lengths to make it the cringest thing imaginable. Notable excerpts are "they rebooted him!" And "brain box." My god. The movie is so actually terrible that it's making me near suicidal again. I can't handle the level of cringe that this movie has. The entire movie is so poorly written that I firmly believe the writers thought they were geniuses. And what does that have to say about Bill Nye being in the film? That drug addicts are the only ones that respect him? This movie can go straight to f**king h**l. Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek are now my least favorite actors. I will never watch a movie with either of them in it again. You can go ahead and be like "well, I think it sends a powerful message" blah, blah. No. No it doesn't. You're a pretentious a**hole that has no idea what drug addicts are like. I have a few cousins that are heavy drug addicts. I've never witnessed them or their friends doing anything this CRINGEY. Drugs ruin lives in excess, but this is pure disgusting propaganda and I have no respect for anyone who worked on this film. Not only do I think that my time was wasted, but I feel as if staring at a wall for 48 hours, would have been a better use of my time than the 2 hours it took to watch this horsesh*t. Usually when a film is terrible, you can just make fun of it, but this movie was so terrible that I was in shock from how terrible the movie actually was. The entire time, it was like "does this movie even have a plot or a point?" And yes, it does. It's plot is to waste your time so horribly that it feels like you've been violated.… Expand

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