Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 20, 2014
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JoeCoolMay 16, 2020
Three boring love stories intertwined through their own meaninglessness. What a desperate attempt at a movie. All that talent wasted on whatever this was supposed to have been but just wasn't.
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GreatMartinJul 5, 2014
As a rule I will usually post my movie review the same evening after I have seen the movie but I wanted to give the “Third Person” awhile before giving my opinions. I don’t remember the last time I saw an audience with such puzzled facesAs a rule I will usually post my movie review the same evening after I have seen the movie but I wanted to give the “Third Person” awhile before giving my opinions. I don’t remember the last time I saw an audience with such puzzled faces walking out of a movie theatre as I did after the end credits were shown.

While I prefer my movies tied up in a bow with rational explanations of why/what took place I don’t mind the occasional one with ambiguous endings but sometimes the writer/director, in this case Paul Haggis, who also wrote and directed the Oscar winning “Crash”, goes a little too far. There are 3 stories going on here simultaneously but really there is a fourth which helps in adding, “What?!” to the ending. I don’t like to give spoilers so I really won’t give my explanation except to say as a writer I have written books of fiction giving characters different aspects of myself and leave it at that.

The stories revolve around Mike (Liam Neeson), Anna (Olivia Wilde) and his wife (Kim Basinger), Sean (Adrien Brody) and Monika (Moran Atias), Julia (Mila Kunis) and her ex (James Franco) and her lawyer (Maria Bello) each story involving a child, girl or boy, dead or alive.

One couple is in Paris, another in Rome and a third in New York and whether on purpose or not the writer/director Haggis will have Mila in New York, where her main story takes and place, and twice in Paris without any reason except writers have the freedom to take their story where they want.

All the actors do fine but Kunis’s make up is a bit too much even for a one time soap opera star and Brody comes up bland playing opposite Atias, an Israeli actress, as a Romanian gypsy!

I don’t know how to explain this but though the movie is interesting it is also boring, the running time being over 2 hours and 20 minutes. The film is about all aspects of love but doesn’t get the viewer involved which in the end makes it a failure.
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Dgxmnmoc0923Oct 10, 2018
The movie must have been directed by someone on mind altering drugs. It is totally confused trying to create grand points of sublime wisdom between intersecting storylines. The joke is, the stories are not even connected. There is no moralThe movie must have been directed by someone on mind altering drugs. It is totally confused trying to create grand points of sublime wisdom between intersecting storylines. The joke is, the stories are not even connected. There is no moral to the story. Haggis is totally lost by the end of the film. Sad really. Waste of 2 hours. Expand
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