Bene Cumb The events taking part at present are often slow and boring, versatility has been created too complex making the film difficult to follow - especially in combination with Meanwhile City fuzz which, to be admitted, is slightly more interesting. It took even some time to realise that there are 4 main characters in this film - normally, I can consider myself as a fast grasper... The actors are also nothing special - even Sam Riley's performance is just average. Or perhaps the characters do not allow to achieve more. And final/settlement scenes and ending... Brr, not to my taste at all.Perhaps two separate films could have been a better and more interesting option. In the present form, Franklyn is just a film for art's sake, just "different" in the artistic sense. There are so many good British films available!

listofnames Several different plot strands that somehow magically (unrealistically) join up right at the end. Pulp fiction or magnolia this is not. This is not even a true science fiction movie. That was the sole reason i bought the film...Most of the film is slightly dull and hard to follow. The scenes in the 'alternative' London are just plain silly and badly scripted. Yet when we connect them with our London they do actually make a little more sense and take on a deeper meaning that previously thought. This eureka moment is one of the few moments in the film that actually impress. The other being the scene between Milo and his mum regarding his great realisation about Sally.The ending is nonsensical and just not a good enough pay off for what we have had to sit through. The only semi-interesting character and decently acted part was that played by Eva Green. Also helps that she looks pretty cool throughout.

forceuserjames I could say this movie had action, romance, some horror, a little flair of mystery thrown in, and I certainly wouldn't be lying. There are essentially two worlds: Modern day London, England, and a strange futuristic looking place called Meanwhile city. London is the domain of Milo, a romantic who's been down on his luck with every girl since leaving his childhood friend, and Emilia, an art student with a tendency to try to kill herself on video. Meanwhile City is the domain of Preest, a faithless man in the midst of a city ruled by hundreds of different religions and patrolled by the "clerics". In London, there's the mystery of the strange red haired girl from Milo's past, Emilia's "art", and Peter Esser trying to find his missing son. In Meanwhile, Preest avoids Clerics and traitors while tracking the leader of a religious group that sacrificed a young girl. All these elements were confusing at first, but weird and fantastic enough to keep me occupied until the pieces began to fall into place, and suddenly these two "separate" worlds became one, and it all made sense. Preest is actually Peter Esser's missing son, and his mind has created it's own world after the traumatic death of David Esser's (Preest's) younger sister, then blaming in on his father, Peter, who is the leader of the religious cult in Meanwhile. This worked fine and dandy, until just about the last minute or so of the movie in an anti-climatic, "oh dear, that was sort of weird. Are you alright?" and paramedics who decide "Ok, even though this guy just got SHOT in the ARM and is most likely losing BLOOD, we'll let him have a tender moment with that girl who just stumbled out of a building that EXPLODED. Anyone else want to give this realistic B.S. a go 'cause I'm pretty damn sure I'M FIRED :D (did I forget to mention it turns out 2/3 of the main characters are clinically insane? No? Oh. Well, it also turns out that 2 out of the 3 main characters are just insane, and the 3rd is definitely pushing it.)

perkypops It is hard not to feel you need your brain in overdrive after the first fifteen minutes of this film such is the constant tripping between Meanwhile City and London, but, as the characters develop, and their personal tales unfold, the film becomes strangely obsessive and compelling. The acting of the four main leads, Ryan Phillippe, Bernard Hill, Eva Green, and Sam Riley is superb throughout, lending the story a bleak feeling of reality only sporadically interrupted by the even bleaker visits to Meanwhile City. Stephen Walters also deserves a mention for his excellent portrayal of Wormsnakes.But this film isn't about being cold and bleak, it is about discovery and how even our quirkiest traits fail to stop us uncovering what needs to be exposed. Franklyn is much more than a competent piece of cinema with its twisting and turning, it asks us to revisit our many suppositions as the film unravels. And that is its main point: the journey IS worth it. And Franklyn is well worth its 7/10.