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Summary: Robin Williams is effective, in a creepy role.
Review: An interesting story of obsession and being alone. Although oddly paced and somewhat dull at times, "One Hour Photo" keeps you watching till the shocking conclusion. Williams plays Sy "the photo guy" who becomes obsessed with a family who brings their film to the photo center he works at. He's so into them, because it's like the family he never had. Williams' character turns out to be quite the sick individual, due to a bad childhood that the screenplay briefly touches on. I didn't know what I was in for when I sat down and hit play on my DVD player. I'm sure this isn't what I expected though. I don't recommend this to those that can't step outside of the Robin William's comedy box. On the other hand it's a pretty good movie for most adults. And Williams is 100% watchable in an unlikely role for him.
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Summary: One of the best movies ever made.
Review: Watch director Romanek. A star of the future. This is simply one of the best movies ever made, and as close to perfect as you can get in a movie. Robin Williams is incredible, as usual. If you want a lesson in how to make movies, watch for the scene when he's running down the ramp in the parking garage. This Romanek knows his stuff. At a time when most of the stuff being produced is such garbage, it's surprising to find such a gem.
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Summary: Not what it seems...
Review: This movie is moreso about the impressions, perceptions and expectations people have on one another. How we relate socially and how we can be decieved. It is about human desire, behaviour, values, self-identity and destiny. Those who judge it merely on the fact that Robin Williams isn't playing a typical comedy role, get a life. He is a multi-talented, ambitious and passionate actor who can convey raw human emotion so convincingly. The storyline isn't supposed to be a full-on thriller, it serves moreso as commentary on modern society and human-relations. It's a powerful, provocative film full of metaphoric value and symbolism. Those who judge it so harshly obviously need to have closer look below the surface and understand the underlying themes and context. It's not a top-notch film but I do think it is terribly misunderstood and underrated.
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Summary: Williams rules
Review: This guy knows how to not only be hilarious in all of his movies, but he has a serious side as well. Only Jim Carrey is an actor I notice can do this. Williams is truly a legend, and this film is great. It's so dark, and the acting is great. Too bad people are idiots (including myself) and didn't realize this would've been a great movie to watch at the theaters. I saw it when it came out on DVD.
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Summary: Spoilers
Review: Nobody dies. There's your spoiler. Some people you probably don't much like get humiliated, but nobody even gets physically hurt in writer-director Mark Romanek's "One Hour Photo." What happens is far worse--their faith in humanity is shattered.The story is simple. Photo finisher Seymour "Sy the Photo Guy" Parrish (Robin Williams) has a problem dividing reality from fantasy, and he imagines himself joining the photogenic Yorkin family, who trust him to develop their pictures. As he drifts further and further into this imaginary world, he starts visiting young, naive Jake Yorkin (Dylan Smith) at soccer practice. He engineers ways to run into pretty, empathic Nina Yorkin (Connie Neilsen) at the mall. He strikes up random conversations with affluent, ambiguous Will Yorkin (Michael Vartan). But he's so affable and unprepossessing that they all fail to notice anything out of the ordinary. Then Parrish finds out the dream world he's built for himself based on their pictures isn't picture-perfect. This film is a wonderful mystery, but from the beginning we know whodunnit and to whom. What we seek to uncover is the motive, which is as elusive as a fresh, wet, slick photograph right up to the very end. And even that end, with its powerful "Lady or the Tiger" lack of resolution, leaves us with more to figure out than what's been explained. This movie is going to be hard for a lot of people to watch. Its careful pace and distinct atmospherics require viewers to meet the movie on its terms. The dense plot demands much stricter attention than audiences are accustomed to these days. And the style of themes seem drawn more from the world of literature than typical films. For lovers of literary mystery and art-house cinema, this is one of the strongest movies of recent years. Many will balk at it, but this risky, esoteric film wasn't meant for them. The complex, sophisticated structure rewards book-readers as much as cineastes. And if you're both of those, this kind of movie is what you've wanted, and haven't seen, for years.
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Summary: I thought this movie was too.... I don't know.... Stupid
Review: It was good the first 5 mins. Then it went down hill from then until it completly turn into do-do. I dont recommend this movie for anyone with a brain. I thought there was a good plot... nor a good actor. Overall horrable movie.I also havnt seen the movie yet
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Summary: I was very excited to watch this...
Review: And was not dissapointed.
He was a very disturbed man, whos fantasies were of things we take for granted every day. He portrays a lonley old man, who has developed photos for this family for years, and has grown attached to them throughout the years. He fantasises about them, and dreams about them.
Its quite good, i reccomend you get up and go rent it and see for yourself.
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Summary: Robin Williams in a sustained performance of creepiness
Review: Proving that he had depths of creepiness untouched by his performance in "Insomnia," Robin Williams puts on some weight, dyes his hair blonde, and inhabits the body and less than complete life of Sy Parrish, who works at the photo lab at the local Sav*Mart (writer-director Mark Romanek talks about it being like a K-Mart or Target, but I am sure everybody who watches this immediately thinks Wal-Mart). During all that time that he has been processing photographs, Sy has taken what can only be characterized as an unhealthy interest in the family of Nina Yorkin (Connie Nielsen) and her son Jake (Dylan Smith). Nina has a husband, Will (Michael Vartan), who works too much, but it turns out there are other more serious problems with the perfect life Sy has seen while developing her photographs all these years. Sy is a nobody, a non-entity dismissed by the rest of the world who sees everything that his life is not in the photographs he develops for the Yorkins. He sees himself as their "Uncle Sy," a kindly Dutch Uncle. But Sy has a dark side, which only comes out when something he cares about, such as the setting of cyan on the photo printer, goes wrong, and as Sy starts to work his way into the lives of the Yorkins away from Sav*Mart he finds a fatal flaw in their perfect lives. After all, Sy does not just develop photographs for them; he just always prints an extra set just for himself. However, for me there is one rather giant hole in this plot and that has to do with the access that Sy has to the entire store, especially after he is given the ax. I have to tell you that I have worked in places that have fired employees and stood there watching them empty out their desks. Under the circumstances that leave to Sy's termination, and given the antipathy that Bill Ownes (Gary Cole) feels for him, it just stretches the limits of my credulity that what happens would be allowed to happen. However, "One Hour Photo" earns back points because at the end of the film we find out, along with Detective Van Der Zee (Eriq LaSalle), not only why Sy did what he did, but also what he did--and it all fits together. We are not talking about a stunning, spectacular resolution, but simply something that provides the final piece of the puzzle. Lots of films never get that far and combined with the sustained creepiness of Robin Williams's performance, that is enough to warrant checking out "One Hour Photo."
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Summary: Williams best performance .. review with movie spoiler ahead
Review: From what I got from this film was that Sy Parish was abused as a child. That is what drove him to the acts in final part of this movie. If you look at the photos on the wall.... of the family he supposedly developed pictures for.... you can tell he is not on the same level of reality. It was more of a depressing film. We see him eventually go to jail because he couldn't control his rage at the father of this family who went out and had an affair. I just find it hard to believe that someone along the way didn't know that he was the victim of abuse. To me it was unrealistic in a sense that no one saw his wall of photos. No one in the twenty years that he worked at Sav Mart could tell by the inventory reports that he was taking pictures. If he worked there a few months and inventory was completed I could see him getting away with it once ...but for twenty years? He wasn't that clever. And to top it all off no Wal Mart or in this case Save Mart shelves are never that neatly stacked.
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Summary: short review, skip the long ones
Review: Watch this movie before you buy it.
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