Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis

Release Date: Friday, August 17, 2012

Rating: Not Rated

Cosmopolis is a day in the life of Eric Packer, a 28-year-old New York stock market multi-millionaire, as he crosses Manhattan in his customized limousine to go for a haircut. His cross-town journey becomes an almost vertical voyage, with bizarre occurrences and an authentic parade of crazy characters along the way, in a landscape that depicts the modern soul of the West at the end of the millennium.

Director:

  • David Cronenberg

Cast:

  • Robert Pattinson
  • Kevin Durand
  • Samantha Morton
  • Juliette Binoche
  • Sarah Gadon
  • Paul Giamatti
  • Jay Barauchel
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Pietro Filipponi  |  Managing Editor

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Watching Cosmopolis felt like eating a pasta dish where everything tasted sour except for one stellar ingredient. But that one ingredient doesn't make the dish eatable. At first glance I would say Robert Pattinson is fantastic in his role, but that could also only be because he was surrounded by palpable mediocrity. It dragged on and never really finds it's footing story wise. Its frantic cinematography and noncommittal use of satire only make the lack of focus on exposition more obvious. The fastest thing to make me lose interest in a film besides overuse of unnecessary CG is when the only thing it has going for it are interesting characters. That's basically what happened here.

Submitted by Pietro Filipponi on August 14, 2012 - 9:14am.