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Purely Joyful Movie!

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Frank & Robot has a touching plot, good performance, and a strong thematic message. However, not all the character designs work, the cinematography stinks with bluntness, and the lip syncing is frankly not very convincing. Among all the good things, the theme stands out. The film depicts a strange harmony between an old man gradually losing his memories and a robot whose memories are eventually erased. The creators also seek further to discuss the existential purposes of humans and robots. All those things work. However, the movie just does not have very impressive characters. The main character Frank is lovable, much more well-built than anyone else in the movie. His son and daughter's motivations are not very clear. The villain is terrible. The ex-wife aka. library staff has been a boredom before the twist. Overall, it is a movie with many good things, and just a few bad things. I would say it is a wonderful film for family.

Robot & Frank is a touch-above-average film. Frank Langella stars as Frank, a retired thief who is living in an isolated home in upstate NY. He is suffering from early Alzheimer's as he keeps forgetting and misremembering dates, name, and events. He was married, but no longer is. He has a daughter Madison (Liv Tyler) who is a free spirit traveling the world. Frank's son Hunter (James Marsden) is fairly well off, it seems working a job down in NYC. Hunter thinks Dad needs the company of a Robot to help him keep focused, and to help him battle against his forgetting things.The interplay between Frank and Hunter is very charged. Frank spent a lot of the kids' youth in jail because of his checkered past, and Hunter seems to never have gotten over it. While Madison seems somewhat oblivious.The acting is best between Jennifer (Susan Sarandon), the librarian at the local library, and Frank. Frank's one sole pleasure in life seems to be going to the library and hoping that Jennifer will go on a date with him. Meanwhile, the Robot and Frank develop a unique friendship. Frank starts getting the Robot involved in stuff that he should not be getting involved in, and the story basically builds around that.The strong acting of Langella and Sarandon is what carries this movie. While the story is somewhat interesting, and there is one big surprising moment, overall, the movie felt long to me, even though it is only 90 minutes long. In the end, you feel sad for people who suffer from diseases like Alzheimer's, but hey, didn't you BEFORE this movie? Having the star as a thief definitely impacted how sorry or not sorry I felt for Frank. While the director Jake Schreier tried desperately to get viewers to feel sad for Frank, Hunter, Jennifer, and the Robot, ultimately, he failed. There was no real tear-jerker moment, and for me, that is why this film is not really memorable.This one is worth a view, but for emotions and feeling sad for people suffering from diseases, instead see Rain Man - far superior. Enjoy.

In the near future, an aging thief with memory problems (Frank Langella) gets a robot assistant.Nice little movie, reminds me a little of the interaction between the man and the robot in "Moon".The robot's design is a bit distracting at first since it's pretty obvious that it's a (wo)man in a suit, which makes it pretty hard to suspend the disbelief. Still, it's a OK movie.Excellent score by Francis and the Lights. Good performance by Langella. Good voice acting by Peter Sarsgaard.The script could have been more interesting.

A good friend of mine and I were recently lamenting that Langella never gets the roles he deserves, while watching a TV re-run of 'Frost/Nixon', and were wondering when that might happen. Moviewishfulfilling angels heard us for sure, and gave us this little gem. Nice little Indie with one of the best character performers out there leading this effort front-and-center, surrounded by an excellent ensemble that includes Susan Sarandon (playing a role that has to be every young man's fantasy - the sexy librarian; no, really!), James Marsden and Liv Tyler. A neat and tight little tale about an ex-burglar (think Eastwood in 'Extreme Prejudice', but without the gravitas of that one), this subtly makes a few unobtrusive statements about the value of relationships, how much we take one another, and our own infallibility for granted, and how the 'life happens bs' cannot erase true love. On the surface though, this is just about 1 last heist from someone who's a master at planning and carrying things out, set in the near-future on the outskirts of NYC, finding an unlikely partner and ally along for every part of the ride, someone who gives, while being mentored on the fine arts of carrying out a heist.Here's to hoping that many more such roles come this great actor's way - most of us'll be in the queue at the box office.