old man.

stephan lang

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A thriller you must give a chance. The performance of Protagonist (Stephen Lang) is incredible with attractive isolated environment. The story was simple !? It's all about one character (Oldman, Joe and Rascal) it was Oldman itself in past of his life, and the story was revealing his life in forms of his trauma based characters, his mistakes consulting on ruining his life, ending on the lost cabin in the woods. He came young and weak at the woods, after killing his wife and his "secret husband", so he adopted himself well in wilderness in the "character of Rascal" and ended in trauma character portrayed as oldman. Oldman wasn't a bad person, the life was hard hit for him. I feel bad for him.

I've been preaching how Lucky is one of the most important filmmakers we have since I became obsessed with May. He can make films like no one else. Aside from his one co-directed film, All Cheerleaders, his movies have their own world and feel. Much like with the Woman. Old Man captures this too. It is not the film you expect it to be and for that it will go over many viewer's heads. I think it deserves multiple watches. Is he in purgatory? Is this an old man losing his grip on reality? I have more questions after watching the film and that is a sign of a great movie. I won't give away too much, but I will say this is probably geared more towards cinephiles. It could have been made in 1950 or today and been just as strong. It feels like a classic as do most of his movies. Another strong piece from Lucky!!

This was worse than that one drunk uncle who wont stop blabbing at the family reunion. The normally comfortable 97 min runtime just dragged on and on endlessly and painfully. I don't mind dialogue-driven films, but this was all just shallow, repetitive, insignificant and monotonous back and forth banter, and to make matters worse, both characters were speaking at least half the normal speed of conversation. You can only take it so long before you start yelling at the screen for the characters to "spit it out already" and for something significant to happen. There wasn't enough substance in the writing to warrant anything longer that a 20-30 min short film, because you'll get frustrated and impatient 20 mins in. Even with the excellent performances by the two leads, especially Stephen Lang, and the decent directing and cinematography, around the 30-40 min mark, you'll stop caring about both characters and where the film's story is heading. Then when you finally get to the end reveal, it's the biggest let down and will make you wish you watched paint dry instead of sitting through the nonsense build-up and deflating ending.

This started as a slow burn movie of a convo between a weird old dude and a yonger weird and annoying serial killer looking and behaving dude. Then it progressed to conversation based story of old dudes past experiences in his cabin. There are a lot of red flags about the younger person yet the overly suspicious old dude becomes inert to them and carries on as if there is nothing strange about everything. As it goes along you are waiting for the carnage to start occurring at some point since there is solid build up for one of the 2 men (or maybe both) to go full psycho on each other. Plenty of clues for that are dropped and drum roll, bait and switch. Instead nothingburger takes place with some absolutely abhorrent out of place supernatural dead mountain lion ghost undertaker fountain of youth time loop ghost something taking the stage. Movie ends. Nothing happened. It was all fake. Except the fake part at the end that was supposedly real. Absolute train wreck. It was a 6/10 movie the nosedived right into a volcano at the end. It is bad.. not bad in a witty way, just plain horribly bad. Shallow, unimaginative taken out of some toddlers random nightmare one day bad. Actually i think that is what took place here. It was some crew members toddlers dream that they made into a movie here. And the adults left the stage halfway in.

This movie had some great potential. An old man living in a cabin all by himself who suddenly gets a knock on the door by this strange young man who comes out of nowhere. So like any elder who has been living alone for such a long time, must take precaution just for the sake of their own safety. Honestly I thought this movie was very compelling & the acting was pretty good for the most part. The story started strong with a lot of mystery about the old man & his past. The second act still did a great job at holding up it's mystery but it started to shift more towards the young man. The third act however is where I feel the movie slacked. They try to throw a twist at you, which was predictable might I add, but also started to get really weird with this new strange dark entity / thing. Personally I feel like the third act did more damage than good. They could have kept the twist but left out the weird dark character!

This movie captured my attention from the start. Right away I started asking questions about what was happening and why. The old man, who is played by Stephen Lang, was an enigma and I wanted to know more about him and who Raskel was. Not long after the start of the story another man shows up at the old man's door claiming to be lost and in need of help, but the old man is paranoid and scares the heck out of him. The two characters get to know each other for most of the movie and the whole time I'm mesmerized and thinking that one of the two characters is going to kill the other, but which one? During that time I was really enjoying the movie, enough to give it a 8 or maybe a 9 out of 10, but then the big reveal happened and I didn't really like what happened. It brought my rating down to a 7. I thought the story was told very well. I thought the acting was really good. I liked pretty much everything about the production, direction, writing, sound, basically all the technical aspect of the movie were done really well, but that ending just wasn't satisfying at all. I would still recommend that people give this movie a watch, if not just for the story being told so well, but also because Stephen Lang is so captivating to watch in this movie.