The marvelous Adrien Brody stars in this odd comedy. 2009. Director: Rian Johnson.
The two young brothers Steven (young: Max Records) and Bloom (young: Zachary Gordon) are orphans and live with several different familys. At one place, they stay for some longer time and Bloom falls in love with a sweet girl called Rose (Nora Zehetner). He wants to be like all the other kids, and Steven comes up with a plot to help Bloom meeting Rose.
When Bloom is popular among the other kids and Rose, Steven thinks that he can use Bloom to get money from the kids. From that day, the brothers Bloom became swindlers. Stephen comes up with a bulletproof plan, and Bloom is the person to do as his elder brother says and fools the poor victims. The film skips forward to 25 years later.
Bloom (adult: Adrien Brody) realizes that his brother control his life, so he leaves him and moves to Montenegro for three months, efter he tells Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) that he wants an "unwritten life". When those three months has passed, Stephen shows up and tells Bloom that he wants him to co-operate, one last time.
Bloom is supposed to seduce the very rich woman Penelope Stamp (Rachel Weizs) and pretending to be smugglers, they will later commandeer her fortune. Penelope is just as planned seduced by Blooms charm, and folows them on a boat trip. There, she hears from a Belgian man (Robbie Coltrane) that the brothers are in fact smugglers, which they didn't tell her. She wants to be a smuggler just like them.
The brothers are supriced of Penelope's skills and that she often do things they never suspected. Everything goes according to plan so far, but for how long will the brothers succeed with their plans? Can't they fail?
The film is very well made, but the plot sometimes becomes a little bit to complicated and you sometimes doesn't really understand what's going on. Adrien Brody is outstanding and you could see this movie, only to see him act. For the cinematography only, I could give it 5 of 5, but now I have to care about the whole film.
It's exotic and beautiful, the whole film is like a beautiful painting in all of the world's different environments. The colors are beautiful, everything is very lovely to look at and it's very, very well made. But because that you sometimes get totally lost and the fact that the films do is too long, I can't give it a really high grade.
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