August Rush
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: November 21, 2007
7.5
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Generally favorable reviews based on 228 Ratings
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TomkkMar 14, 2008
Even the story is ridiculous, the characters are so thinly drawn that it seems all their actions lie on inane impulses. Given that fact, I couldn't care for the acting or performance . I guess if you overanalyze everything you Even the story is ridiculous, the characters are so thinly drawn that it seems all their actions lie on inane impulses. Given that fact, I couldn't care for the acting or performance . I guess if you overanalyze everything you won't like the movie. Still, the ending wasn't satisfying at all.… Expand
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RobertC.Jul 30, 2008
When my wife and I first saw the trailer for this film, we were so excited because it had such a moving premise, and being a passionate musician, the idea behind film immediately resonated with me. After finally getting around to watching When my wife and I first saw the trailer for this film, we were so excited because it had such a moving premise, and being a passionate musician, the idea behind film immediately resonated with me. After finally getting around to watching the film, we were so horribly disappointed--a perfectly fine premise ruined by a bad writer and a bad director, who while probably had noble intentions, ended up insulting musicians world over with a barely watchable mess. Nothing hurts a film lover more than a squandered premise, because the same premise in the hands of a better writer and director could've been so much more, but now the premise has been wasted, unless maybe a remake happens someday. So why did this film disappoint so much? It boils down to the way the film treats the audience like they are a bunch of musical morons, and in doing so, the film actually insulted anyone who ever loved music and tried hard to become a good musician. If it was a film about quantum physics, where most people haven't a clue, then fine, go wild, but most households probably have at least one person who's a musician or know one intimately, so you cannot get away with writing and direction that is not even the least bit grounded in reality. I get the whole "it's like a modern fairy tale" thing--I really do, since I've written fairy tales myself as a writer, but when writing, there is such a thing as context and tone. If you depict a story that is based in the real world where supernatural occurrences are not part of the premise, then you must write a fairytale that is based on events that are categorized as coincidences that even if they border on being miraculous, they must never be impossible. If you depict a non-supernatural story about a human child that in comparison, makes every single musical genius that's ever lived look like a bunch of tone-deaf imbeciles, then it's just a steamy pile of horseshit. Instead of being awe-inspiring, the whole film becomes a giant leap over a big fucking shark (if you aren't familiar with the term "jumping the shark" just google it). But what else is new? This is typical Hollywood crap, where movies depict modern software using GUI that animates like it took a whole render farm to render, or the infamous cliché of "Can we zoom in on that and clean it up" scenes in crime dramas, where Photoshop on crack from the far future does things that should only appear in science-fiction movies, or whenever someone is operating the computer, they are always typing in non-stop streams instead of using a mouse like real humans do. I just can't for the life of me understand why filmmakers do it. Is it contempt for the audience? Is it genuine ignorance? Do we chalk it up to bad taste?… Expand
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AlexOJun 23, 2009
Overly sentimental cheesy fluff that's difficult to swallow and harder to keep down.
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cafergyMay 21, 2011
Exactly what I hate in a movie: pseudo-mysticism, cliches by the spoonful, plot improbabilities beyond comprehension, good talent wasted, and boring too boot. Ugh!
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PJB.May 7, 2008
There is fairytales and then there is nonsense. I actually have nightmares about Highmore hitting the guitar with that moronic grin on his face and about the Wizards sideburns! My girlfriend liked it though...go figure!
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royphishoohMar 11, 2015
One of the worst movies I have ever seen. I watched this because it feature the excellent Keri Russell from "The Americans", but she was very poor in this film; even Robin Williams' performance was boring. The music in the movie with theOne of the worst movies I have ever seen. I watched this because it feature the excellent Keri Russell from "The Americans", but she was very poor in this film; even Robin Williams' performance was boring. The music in the movie with the exception of a burst of Elgar was quite hideous. Avoid at all costs.… Expand
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[Anonymous]Nov 21, 2007
This movie is beyond awful. There were too many characters, and not one was developed enough for me to have so much as a passing interest in what happened to him. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
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ChadNov 24, 2007
If you like this, you are actually a bad person.
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CarlJohnsonMar 14, 2008
This film is so bad it interferes sexually with the dead. while watching the crap-fest, i was thinking about far-more interesting things, like- are all English people really wizards? and- In the French version of GTA IV, does Niko just This film is so bad it interferes sexually with the dead. while watching the crap-fest, i was thinking about far-more interesting things, like- are all English people really wizards? and- In the French version of GTA IV, does Niko just surrender at the beginning of each mission? in the end of it all DONT WATCH THIS MOVIE.… Expand
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CarlosSApr 13, 2008
It's really frightening to see how many people gave this movie more than a "3". There's nothing wrong with imagination, hope, love, and fable. But time and time again "August Rush" asks us to "believe" while simultaneously making It's really frightening to see how many people gave this movie more than a "3". There's nothing wrong with imagination, hope, love, and fable. But time and time again "August Rush" asks us to "believe" while simultaneously making belief impossible. The resulting cognitive dissonance forces the intelligent viewer to treat the end result as unintentional comedy. Those who think this movie is the greatest thing since clumping cat litter need to deepen their capacity for appreciating true greatness when it rarely makes its appearance. It's the very absence of such discriminating judgment that allows 4th rate movies like "August Rush" to find their way to the screen.… Expand
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EthanNMay 15, 2009
I gave this movie a two because I want to honor the effort of those involved in its production... but no, it's not intelligent, it's not realistic and I found it far from convincing. If you are a musician of any kind, save yourself I gave this movie a two because I want to honor the effort of those involved in its production... but no, it's not intelligent, it's not realistic and I found it far from convincing. If you are a musician of any kind, save yourself (and your TV) the shoe-throwing impulse and avoid this movie. This is a chlidren's movie with grown-up problems.… Expand
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williamfDec 26, 2007
incredibly bad
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NickWDec 28, 2007
I couldn't help breaking out in laughter during all the parts that were supposed to be sentimental.
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NickY.Dec 3, 2007
The most annoying film I have ever seen. Trust me, do not go and see this.
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JulienG.Jan 21, 2008
I did not get into the movie at all. Fake actings, predictable and oversimplified story, farcical idealizations... The director handles a subtle theme with elephant pawns... No emotion came out at all, except laughs caused by so many I did not get into the movie at all. Fake actings, predictable and oversimplified story, farcical idealizations... The director handles a subtle theme with elephant pawns... No emotion came out at all, except laughs caused by so many incoherent scenes.… Expand
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ChadS.Jan 24, 2008
Any movie(it's too late for "August Rush") should reconsider the use of interior dialogue if its narrator is going to deliver self-consciously poetic observations in an insufferably wan voice. More importantly, a movie should find out Any movie(it's too late for "August Rush") should reconsider the use of interior dialogue if its narrator is going to deliver self-consciously poetic observations in an insufferably wan voice. More importantly, a movie should find out how the real world works. "August Rush" wants us to believe that a hospital would conspire with a father into telling his teenage daughter that her child didn't survive the delivery. Uh-huh. Right. Evan(Freddy Highmore) survived. He's a music prodigy, but "August Rush" conceals his gift for a good portion of its running time. When Evan says, "I hear music," we think it's his long-lost parents' music he's remembering; a preternatural awareness that they were once musicians. Since the music he hears is probably his own, "August Rush" misdirects its audience into mystical overkill (Lyla, played by Keri Russell, provides enough mysticism), and gives the film a new age-y vibe that falls on the wrong side of precious serendipity. At one point in "August Rush", Evan turns into Bjork, when he walks down a busy street and interprets industrial noise as Selmasongs just like the Icelandic siren in Lars Von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark"(the factory cacophony just before "Cvalda" is performed). "August Rush" is so full of magic, you wish it would disappear.… Expand
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JeffJ.Nov 25, 2007
I'd rather watch Keri Russell in Waitress as it was way better than this fairy tale. After the movie I had to tap my heels together and wish I was back in Kansas.
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MrToadDec 23, 2007
Good music, and reasonably good visuals/cinematography, but little else. Bland, predictable, not so great characters, plenty of suspension of disbelief required, unfinished ending, little to interest me. Although i hear some teenage girls Good music, and reasonably good visuals/cinematography, but little else. Bland, predictable, not so great characters, plenty of suspension of disbelief required, unfinished ending, little to interest me. Although i hear some teenage girls enjoy it. Honestly, though, the story is very very lame.… Expand
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NingFeb 18, 2019
The movie adores the character of August Rush, who is seemingly flawless, but it fails to give good reason for his flawless nature or how everything around him goes so smoothly when it really shouldn't. Plot aside, a lot of reused techniquesThe movie adores the character of August Rush, who is seemingly flawless, but it fails to give good reason for his flawless nature or how everything around him goes so smoothly when it really shouldn't. Plot aside, a lot of reused techniques are in this movie, and while there's a lot of them none of them are executed all that well.… Expand
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