Contentar
Best movie of this year hands down!
Rio Hayward
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Sammy-Jo Cervantes
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Abby-9
I stuck with this because of Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy and Elle Fanning, whose individual unity of mind/body/spirit and talent kept me from walking away in disgust. I was bothered the whole way by vague puzzles, but toward the end I started thinking about Ingmar Bergman, remembering his films, which I saw religiously beginning in 1958, when I was a first-year student at university.The copy of "The Nines" available to me happens to have Swedish sub-titles, which felt very appropriate. I strongly suggest that the film deserves patience. Lord knows, the cinematography gives the viewer plenty to do while you sort out the annoying questions raised by sequence, characterization, and coy hints at numerological significance.There is a unified sense of sincerity behind whatever-the-hell is going on. For all I know Hope Davis represented The Whore of Babylon--a very different persona from Tony Stark's doomed Mom in "Captain America: Civil War." In truth, I have to watch this move--"The Nines"--again. And because of it, I also have to re-view Bergman's work. For the moment, I take "The Nines" as a well-crafted exploration of anybody's reality, laid out by a cruelly meticulous storyteller. Beautifully acted--I remember thinking, "If these fine actors can be patient enough to make this film, I can be patient enough to watch it." And, as I said previously, I'll being in for another viewing. Have fun!!
screamingfoot
I wasn't sure what to think up to about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through the film, but once everything became clear, my mind was blown. As someone who constantly ruminates over the grand ultimate, I found this poignant tale of one interesting possibility, thoroughly grounded in humanity, gripping and profound.The leads were very nicely characterized and the musical score was seamless and always apropos. For those who have the ability to pay attention to details in films, the ride is worth it with this one. There are clues throughout that may or may not lead one to the correct determination, but in the end, all is explained.I would caution those deeply rooted in any form of mainstream organized religion or school of philosophy, you may very well come to dislike this film once the plot culminates.
gazzer sutherland
I give this a 6 because it is actually quite good fun and entertaining, but it is not the intellectual exercise that some here seem to think it is. The film is divided into three parts and of the three the first part is the only one that is entertaining and gives you some mystery. The way the first part ends, however, just does not make any sense. Why does the world disappear when the 'being' steps back over the line? There is just no need for such dramatics. The second part is where they use metaphors to explain what exactly is going on, not that it needs it once the world disappeared. If you have a functioning brain you could have figured it all out from there. The absurd floating numbers at the end of Part 2 and the fairly explicit explanation from Melissa totally dispel whatever mystery might remain, for everyone surely but the most hard of thinking. The third part is just totally pointless. Reynolds is supposed to be a video game designer in this part, but nothing is actually made of this which renders the whole subterfuge pointless. The actor and the writer were given some prominence but not the video game creator, which is about as close as you could get to the god process. With the 3 parts you get a comedy, followed by a documentary, followed by a piece of cod philosophy. The writer then denies that the 9s are actually gods by implying that there is a 10. The numbers are just stupid, because if they are suggesting that humans are 7s and koala bears are 8s (so what are tricking dolphins and mice then? (yes Douglas Adams did it better)) and then the very next beings up are the creators of the universe who are 9s, suggests that there is nothing in between. So you go from a telepathic teddy bear to the creators of the universe in 1 number, not very imaginative then. One final point, the character played by Melissa, who is of course a 7, knows all about the 7s and the 9s and even the putative 10. How come? Did a careless 9 tell her all this? Worth seeing, maybe. Worth any intellectual capacity, not a chance. I am, of course, an atheist so all of these god type movies, like Lucy, leave me with a hugely stretched credulity. The real universe is much more awe-inspiring than any religious type mumbo-jumbo or meandering cod-philosophy could render.
BeauEvil
A lot of reviews here are undeservedly harsh. "The Nines" has a fresh and unsettling strangeness that reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock's stuff in the Sixties. A lot of people just HATED Hitchcock then because he refused to follow the herd and churn out more of the same feel-good, cookie-cutter movies.Like Christopher Nolan's movies, this one requires extra effort on the viewers part. It's not a terrific movie. But, it's not terrible either. It's well worth watching if just to mull over the big "what if" idea. That's what I watch movies for, to leave with something, something I didn't have a few hours earlier.There is a clip from the claymation movie, "The Adventures of Mark Twain" that meshes very well with, "The Nines". The bit was written by the great Mark Twain. (You can find the clip online.) I wonder if the clip inspired "The Nines"!
