Film Review - Cosmopolis

“Cosmopolis” requires viewers to set aside their every thought, perhaps every motor function too, and focus on the enormous exchanges of knotted dialogue launched between comatose characters. There’s no possible way to appreciate the movie in a half-hearted manner, yet writer/director David Cronenberg isn’t exactly inviting outside interest in this polarizing work. With its stretches of byzantine conversations, bloodless characterizations, and inert thematic push, “Cosmopolis” is a rare miscarriage from the always exciting filmmaker. Cronenberg seems like he has something specific, possibly devilishly satiric in mind, but his screen instincts are numb, constructing a feature that lurches from scene to scene, convinced it possesses a wicked intellectualism it rarely finds the energy to display. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com