Bruno Calgaro Sandi (wolvesevolve)

Great cast, especially Shailene Woodley shined! As to expected, beautiful scenery, script was pretty decent....I especially did like the subplot of the trust sale among the King family. Great job with the make-up on the comatose Mrs. King...I really felt the emotions portrayed on screen, which in my book is a great success by all. However I thought Payne's Sideways was a better film, despite there being a lot of buzz about The Descendants being his masterpiece.

Even if this was a total riff on 80's movie action/dramas, simple but it was so well done, a lot more violent that I had anticipated...I got echoes of classic Lynch, Michael Mann, Tarantino and Jarmusch. Great characters, great camera pans, Gosling is maybe starting to get to be a little too spread out, doing the quiet guy far too often often, but he really did come through especially towards the end, Mulligan did a great job with the American accent, Brooks and Cranston were also great, Perlman as a stock dumb villain was perfect, didn't need anything more. This might be my favorite heist movie in the past 10 years. I kinda hope Winding Refn's next film will be mind blowing.