Cosmopolis(2012)- User Reviews

You can tell by the number of stars above that this was a good film. Cosmopolis is unique, it's celebral. I left the theatre and thought about it for hours afterwards, it sorta lingers. The timing of the story really couldn't have been any better considering the times we are living in, with the wall street protests we've had, and all the talk about the privileged 1%, I think Don Delillo was a visionary of sort considering he wrote Cosmopolis well before the 2008 collapse of the American economy and before the phrase "the 1%" became part of our everyday lexicon. This film is really about how life can change in the blink of an eye, for anyone.

Yet, at the end of the day, this film isn't really like anything else I've seen, it can't really be compared to the 1980's film Wall Street, yet it isn't as complicated as everyone makes it out to be either. Without giving away to much, you the viewer, will get to live vicariously through Eric Packer for a day, as the precocious, promiscious, stoic young man tries to get across town in his custom limo just to get a haircut at his preferred babershop. Eric wants what he wants even if the ride will cost him on many levels and as the film progress you start to feel for Eric and wonder why he continues on his current path.

About Robert, he did a great job at bringing Eric Packer to life. I am used to seeing complicated roles like this going to more seasoned actors like Leo DiCaprio and Viggo Mortenson but Robert was just as engaging and I think Cronenberg selected his leading man wisely. There were other noteworthy performances, especially at the end, but I don't want to spoil that for you.

Overall, I think I might have to go see this again, this is the type of film you probably get more out of the second time around.