A Bigger Splash

Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: May 4, 2016

6.7	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 89 Ratings

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Brent_MarchantMay 14, 2016

Despite fine performances by Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes, this high-end, melodramatic alleged art piece meanders from start to finish, with numerous sequences that feel like they're about to go somewhere but ultimately don't. ItsDespite fine performances by Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes, this high-end, melodramatic alleged art piece meanders from start to finish, with numerous sequences that feel like they're about to go somewhere but ultimately don't. Its pointless narrative feels unfocused and incomplete, punctuated by equally incongruent cinematography, tedious pacing, often-amateurish editing and a soundtrack that pushes the limits of eclecticism. The net effect is a film that tries to pass itself off as something it isn't -- worth watching.… Expand

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dcmainFeb 20, 2017

I am inclined to like Swinton and Fiennes, and their performances were indeed fine in this film, but the film offers little else. The plot is thin at best, there's something political thrown in at the end without purpose, the soundtrack isI am inclined to like Swinton and Fiennes, and their performances were indeed fine in this film, but the film offers little else. The plot is thin at best, there's something political thrown in at the end without purpose, the soundtrack is frequently distracting, and the constant nudity serves no purpose as it drives little sexual tension. If it were 40 minutes shorter it might have felt like its actual running time. As it is, it felt like 3 wasted hours. Hard pass.… Expand

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AmadouIraklidisOct 2, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This movie was awful. Actual garbage. It was supposed to be a crime/drama/seductive film, and all it ended up being was an annoyance.

For **** sake, the director thought that focusing on certain things throughout the movie as clues would aid the movie. Newsflash, for that to work, they actually have to pertain to the movie. It's like the cameraman dozed off and zoomed in on something random half a dozen times and they said **** it, keep rolling"

All of the characters were insufferable. Actual misery-pills. None of them could spell "morals" if they tried to. The daughter of the king loser was this completely obnoxious seventeen year old who all she was trying to do was get a rise out of people. I mean, talk about being a complete reject. And we never even figured out her motivation. I seriously thought that she might've not been the neanderthals daughter and some tool in a devious plot to break up the other couple. That's how little the movie wanted anyone to understand what the **** was going on, a mission impossible plot seemed plausible. So stupid.

Then comes the loud mouthed loser himself. This guy did not stop talking. I mean, literally did not stop talking! Between him rambling inane **** and this weirdly passive rockstar who couldn't speak apparently, I bet the script was just him up until he died. Which was the best thing the directors had in the movie. Thank god he died. Speaking of, these characters sucked so much, I didn't even know the guys name until he died! With 30 minutes left in the movie! Then they also had GTA NPC type side characters. Like all the italians there were caricature fan boys, maids, and wide eyed locals. It was surreal, the director could not have chosen a better way to destroy any suspension of disbelief I had. I mean, for no ****ing reason, the police chief just went along with a **** story of seven refugees killing the oaf in chief. He even coached her through it.

Paul was the only half decent character, and we almost never heard him talk. He could have been a cardboard cutout. But then he got seduced by a seventeen year old (statutory rape revealed for no reason and out of no where, why didn't they just stick to the annoying gnat being twenty two?). And his wife, some rockstar, also let her ex gorilla get frisky with her. I guess nobody in this **** of characters ever saw a fence, gate, door, barrier, or wall, because no one had any semblance of boundaries. What was even more unbelievable was that multiple women were attracted to the talking parrot, and that Paul was seduced by the most wannabe emo teenager imaginable. The only explanation for the first is that the women confused their unquechable desire to murder him to get him to shut his yap with arousal in some sort of fundamental attribution error sort of psychology out of some intrinsic failure in human evolution. And for the latter, its that pauls brain works so slowly that not only does he not talk, he also cant conceive of the idea of telling the young brat to put some clothes on. What a thought that would've been.

The only reason this movie get's any points at all is because there was a sensual element to it, which managed to make it interesting for a couple minutes. That's how the movie was marketed, lean into it. Bring more seduction into it. For crying out loud, you literally aren't good at anything else, lean into the easiest part of making a film like this, and what creates the essential drama of these movies. Instead the director thought he was Tarantino. Disgusting. The only ones duped harder than those italian cops was me, I spent 3.99 to watch this high schooler final art project when I could've been watching my beard grow in the mirror. 1/10, never make another movie.… Expand

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