Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

SnoopyStyle Grace (Susan Sarandon) and Allen Brewer (Pierce Brosnan) are devastated when their son Bennett (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is killed. He had stopped in the middle of the road to romance Rose (Carey Mulligan) when they get hit by Jordan Walker (Michael Shannon). Grace is obsessed with her son's last minutes with the criminal Jordan waiting for him to wake up from his coma. When a pregnant Rose shows up at their door, Grace is furious and disbelieving. Allen is more supportive of the homeless Rose. Bennett's black sheep younger brother Ryan (Johnny Simmons) struggles to deal with his family and he finds Ashley (Zoë Kravitz) in his support group.The greatest part is the actors. There are some aspects that feels awkward. Grace's obsession is very obsessive. Her relationship with Rose is strange. It speaks to a dysfunction before Bennett's death. Carey Mulligan is enchanting and Pierce Brosnan is terrific. Aaron Taylor-Johnson doesn't fit the school star role. He's more of a geek. This is a sudsy soap that has plenty of family melodrama that is elevated by the first class cast.

operdoc Wow! Where to begin. A truly horrible screenplay. You could use an electron microscope and not fine one true moment, one true piece of dialogue in this movie. How did this movie ever get green lighted? How did three fine actors sign on to act in this movie once they'd read this piece of trash screenplay? Truly horrible direction from the very beginning. The scene in the limo coming back from the cemetery is stomach turning in its banality, in its falseness. I felt like Susan Sarandon looked away from the camera because she couldn't stand being in the scene. Every camera shot seems wrong. Close ups when they're should be medium shots etc. etc.Terrible acting. Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan must be truly ashamed to have been in this movie. Carrie Mulligan rises above some of the wretchedness, but even she becomes bogged down in the horror toward the end.How exactly does Hollywood work that a piece of crap like this can be made, that millions of dollars can be spent on trash? No wonder that the studios are in such a state of disrepair.I watched this movie mostly to see Carrie Mulligan. She's a special actress with an incredibly expressive face. Sorry that she made the decision to be in it. It tarnishes her resume.Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

princesstopaz93 A 6.6 out of 10 is disgusting, this movie was amazing and is definitely one of my favorites. I just finished it and I am still crying. I cried from start to finish, even laughed a little. Its heart warming in a kind of dark way. I will recommend this movie to everyone I know and will most definitely watch it again, and will more than likely cry just as much. Anyone debating on whether or not to watch this movie....WATCH IT! Its wonderful. Kept me interested from start to finish, awesome casting. This movie makes you feel like you knew Bennet and that you were grieving with the family. You feel their pain even though you may not have gone through something as tragic.

Argemaluco I complained in various occasions about the family dramas which ignore the story in order to plunge into the characters' suffering...and The Greatest is one of them. As many of these dramas, the film relies on competent performances to keep us moderately interested, but there is not too much story after all; we simply have a premise which could have been much more interesting if someone had made an effort to bring it a better structure and an authentic message.After having established the situation during the first half hour, we still have 60 minutes in The Greatest to see how every member from a family assimilates all the hard things they have to go through. And sure, the things they live are enough extreme to justify various scenes about suffering, consternation and compromise. In other words, all the actors have the opportunity of showing us their most afflicted expressions, and their solid performances certainly make The Greatest to look better than what it really is.However, I am usually not left very satisfied by these movies which consist of a constant suffering, because I feel that they exploit really tragic situations for the audience's entertainment; but I do not want to discard the possibility that its artificial sentimentality might help someone to overcome a horrible personal situation, so I think I have to give it the benefit of the doubt and give The Greatest a slight recommendation for what it is: a generic drama which results moderately interesting thanks to the performances from Susan Sarandon, Pierce Brosnan, Carey Mulligan and Johnny Simmons, whose collective presence is the only thing which makes this movie better than many dramas made for TV.