Movie Review: Stay
I was supposed to watch Lucky Number Slevin but the downloaded copy I had turned out to be corrupted so I decided to watch Stay. I had downloaded it a while back but wasn’t very keen in watching it but since I didn’t have anything else I went ahead and did.
The movie stars Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts, where Ewan plays the role of a psychiatrist who is trying to stop one of his patients from committing suicide. Things start to go weird and confusing and he tries to get a grip on what is real and what isn’t.
The movie wasn’t only weird and confusing to Ewan but also to me. I don’t mind “strange” movies and I don’t mind being puzzled trying to figure out whats going on, but the problem with Stay is that in the end when everything finally comes together and all the questions answered, you realize that the past 90 minutes were really not worth the ending. I am not going to ruin the the movie and tell you what happens in the end but I can tell you that it didn’t leave me shocked but more like “huh this is it? How lame.”
The movie felt slow at some points but the acting was great and visually the movie looked cool. In general I like Ewan McGregor as long as he isn’t singing and Naomi Watts when she isn’t running around the jungle looking for King Kong. It could be the movie wasn’t weird enough to make the ending good or maybe its the other way around, but whatever the case, I didn’t have high expectations of the movie to begin with and so wasn’t left too disappointed.
Print
Email
Related Entries
Review: Hard Candy
World Trade Center Survivors
Kong is Not Suck
Click-n-Buy Review
Review: Transformers
9 Comments, add your own...
1. Yazeed | May 22nd, 2006 at 9:47 am
i enjoyed lucky number slevin alot, i think u will too, i reviewed it here
http://yazeez.com/?p=71
btw i downloaded it too, the copy i got was a very good one, i got it last week from torrentleech.
2. Mark | May 22nd, 2006 at 10:01 am
thats the same copy i downloaded except it was skipping on my xbox, so yesterday i downloaded the “PROPER” rerelease and hopefully it will work.
3. Purgatory72 | May 22nd, 2006 at 10:01 am
I watched slevin on weekend, very CLEAR crystal copy. Go to Torrent portal and download it, its in avi format
4. fractal00 | May 22nd, 2006 at 10:29 am
Naomi Watts is Hot
5. WTF? | May 22nd, 2006 at 10:30 am
Excellent movie, exceptional camera work..very stylish… If you liked this one watch November…
6. Pink Moon | May 22nd, 2006 at 10:48 am
Lucky Number Slevin is good—I saw it in London.
7. Carlsb3rg | May 22nd, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Stay is a good deep movie for people who like to think about the movie after it finishes.
8. Mo Hat | May 22nd, 2006 at 1:34 pm
update your xbox media center dude. get the latest expert release, expert ftw
9. LAith | May 22nd, 2006 at 10:45 pm
I would add half a star to your rating mark.
I watched the film and enjoyed it, but i had the same feeling towards the end. Yet i had been given clues before hand which made me enjoy the experience, the small details, the attention to detail in this film is amazing. His pants for example. Editing was top notch, matt chesse always does really good work with marc and their next film, “stranger than fiction” with will farell is really funny, he showed me about 20 minutes of it. Also they are about to start working on the
“kite runner” which hopefully will be as good as the book.
Sorry for the long comment.
Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed
Commenting Rules: Any comments that are personal attacks towards other users will be deleted. You are also not allowed to post with the name Mark or Nat since that might cause confusion. Finally, no advertising is allowed, you can't advertise your products or websites here unless its beneficial to the topic thats being discussed. One more thing: We are not responsible for readers comments!