Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)

So, I found Wristcutters on Amazon Prime the other day. I almost scrolled past it because I thought it was going to be another cheaply made, poorly produced waste of time (you wouldn't believe how much of that is on Amazon Prime!), but then I saw the ratings were quite high. I gave it a chance and I quite liked it. As a Comedy, I wouldn't say Wristcutters is a massive success. I laughed a couple of times and chuckled a few times, but nothing really got my guts bursting. As a quirky little adventure, however, it's fun. Despite being a movie about suicide, there's an slight air of optimism throughout the character interactions and dialog that makes it all the more intriguing. The characters are also pretty well written, too. Each one feels unique and has a clear goal in mind. The plot and setting are also quite interesting. While some of the later reveals are a little predictable, the plot usually surprised me with a twist I never saw coming. All in all, this a hidden gem. If you're not super disturbed by anything even related to suicide, I'd give it a shot.

I found this movie by sheer luck a couple days ago. I was watching some cheesy chic flick I never heard of. For good reason. But this little jewel popped up in the preview section when that was over. I didn't even watch the preview. I just read the description. From my own crazy experience with suicide I knew I wanted to watch it. So I did. And i'm really happy that I did. The acting is good. The story is even better. I fell in like immediately with the two main characters. It's very interesting and kinda quirky. So the range of emotions are deep but presented in a light hearted way. If that makes sense. It will if you watch it. It's really sad that these days there's a lot of crappy movies that get a lot of publicity because so and so is in it or so and so produced it. This movie is one of the best indie's i've ever seen. I rated this an 8 because it left me feeling good. And it blows any mainstream suicide movie outta the water!! Enjoy!

It's a shame that the only original thing going for this film is the concept. Granted, it is a great and fascinating concept - a tedious desolate purgatory for victims of suicide but told in a quirky way. Fortunately all the ideas and jokes that we have heard a hundred times in other films are solid and work in a unique way due to the concept, though I wouldn't say it was particularly special. Despite the easy to grab fruit for drama, it does focus on its comedy values and follows comedy formats and clichés. It goes from a buddy movie, to a road movie to a manic pixie dream girl movie, where the protagonist meets a girl who goes against all the rules and they fall in love, the dramatic irony of which is that he meets the girl during his search for his ex-girlfriend - a relationship that never felt real in the first place.It did take a long time for the actual story to develop but once it did, it was rather predictable as to where it was going and there wasn't much drive in it. Fortunately it does has a little creative spark in the third act by showing what happens to those who belong to mass suicide cults. I was begging for a twist in the story but that will do as a substitute. Granted, it is a very low budget film and it does quite show, if just through what kind of perspective they take to suicide, often comedically flashing back to reality to show how a random character committed suicide. I wasn't a fan of it at first but it grew on me. The cinematography reminds me of 90s British cinema with Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh's work, but sometimes it is too old for its own good. It blunts all the emotions it attempts to achieve. It's simply not intimate enough for me to feel the characters beyond the clichés they represent.Most of the performances feel miscast or half-hearted or too forced (some of the accents are dire). Patrick Fugit in particular feels insincere and too awkward. There are some delightful cameos though, with the colourful Tom Waits as a highlight and Will Arnett, Nick Offerman and Mark Boone Junior too. The characters don't feel developed enough at all to be satisfying. However, in the evitable scene where the protagonist falls in love with the girl he travels with on his journey to find his ex-girlfriend, their bonding does feel genuine which is nice to see. The best part of the film is certainly the great soundtrack, built off of musicians who have also committed suicide among others. While it isn't too brave throughout, the ending went from really good, to irredeemably bad and then back to great which is quite impressive in its own right. Despite its flaws and missed opportunities, Wristcutters is a sweet little indie flick that's worth watching.7/10

Like most of the movies I've been watching lately, I searched here at IMDb before watching this, and this one has a 7,3 average score and the plot caught me, so it was enough for me.The story is about people who commit suicide and the place where they go, what seems to me a lot like the purgatory from catholic church.Even though the special effects are very bad, the movie itself is not bad, because this is not some mindless action movie, so that's OK if special effects suck.What concerned me was that, for a "different" movie, with a "out of the box" story, it just ended like all the other movies, with the protagonist staying with the beautiful girl.I'm so tired of that kind of brainwashing about a romantic couple, doesn't matter if we are talking about a war on Mars or a suburban family trying to pay the bills, it's like a recipe people follow just to reach some final goal, that is the approval of the audiences.About the acting, it's average, with some highs and downs. The Russian guy was very nice, but the protagonist was just around average.Nevertheless, it's a funny movie with some good ideas that show creativity and makes us think.Concluding, for a overall average movie, 6 seems a just score.