Irrational Man

I liked this DVD. It has a sad ending. The script is strong. It is well acted. It is not good for all ages. Sexual scenes are not subtle enough for a younger audience. There is some violence.

This was just a plain ol' movie that was fun and easy to watch with a bit of a twist. Nothing great but certainly creative. The acting was good and the storyline a little silly but OK.

Not very good movie, Kind of boring!!

Typical light-weight Woody Allen fare. Despite good acting (for the most part) it comes across as shallow and mediocre. Hope they didn't spend much making it.

Pretty mediocre affair all around from Woody Allen- the plot is incredible lame, and the characters are cardboard thin. Waste of time even for hardcore Woody-ites.

Enjoyed the existential-philosophical flavour with Phoenix playing a compelling character. It was a wild ride of a movie, and Emma Stone was also good in it. Found the closing sequence pretty lame though in some odd Shakespearean attempt, which to me was pretty much the only glitch in a really good movie

71 copies?!

Ended up ffwd'ing through this just to get through the story. Woody's style of telling twisted drama stories like a Sunday stroll in the park.

Boring, ridiculous unbelievable plot involving pretentious, immature, and shallow characters, I generally like Woody Allen movies and appreciate philosophy. However, the movie made me laugh in unexpected places during the many moments I just couldn't care or believe any of the cliche dialogue or actions were even remotely possible. This film felt false and out of touch. Joaquin Phoenix physically captured a depressed delusional rude alcoholic with his bloated stomach. Emma Stone played perky Emma Stone (yawn). I felt like I was watching an acting class in session, but the "before" version - before the acting teacher corrected everything. Dialogue trite and annoying, but maybe that's because I found the characters trite and annoying. This Woody Allen film a failure, especially the ending. Waste of my time. Much better Woody Allen movies are "Match Point" and "Midnight in Paris". It's hard to give this movie even "1/2 star".

Starting out as a somewhat pretentious boarding school drama with beautiful people in designer clothes hashing out Kierkegaard and Kant, writer/director Woody Allen gently pulls the rug out from under us as Lucas’ disillusionment with the “mental masturbation” of philosophy is suddenly put to an acid test. It’s one thing to ponder over dusty tomes, but trying to apply those lofty proclamations on morality, ethics, and reasoning to the dirty, always ambiguous real world can be problematic at best. Above par performances (Parker Posey excels as a sexually frustrated lab prof with her sights on Lucas) are graced by an intelligent script whose macabre sense of irony is underscored by an incongruous soundtrack of jazzy piano riffs. It all comes to a head with a tussle worthy of Hitchcock in which Allen, with tongue just slightly in cheek, plays with the concept of randomness vs destiny and leaves us wondering, “What are the chances…?!” Sly little devil.