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Thanks for the memories!

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Excellent but underrated film

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This film has some plot trick that seem hardly understandable to some. The only one problem is that how could the crazy son predict, that the father will win a Nobel prize, or how could he plot the kidnapping (which is a good plot) within the interval between naming the Nobel laureate and actually presenting the prize. OK, he was spying on the family for long time, and the single molecular spectroscopy was a Nobel-worth idea, bu no one can ever guess, when such a work gets the actual prize (if it gets at all).All the other strange things, like the suffering wife (who does not actually seem suffering beside her husband, until their son is kidnapped, these egoistic guys can be very magnetic in their ways), the changing of the less crazy son while being kidnapped (the more crazy son manages to turn him against the already not much liked father by showing some convincing and less convincing proofs of the father's evilness (by the way, the handwritings are the less convincing facts, they can easily be made up)), the lack of make up after the kidnapping (realistic), or the evil son"s killing the neighbour (1. convincing the police, that the neighbour was the kidnapper, 2. if this does not come in, convincing the police that the less crazy son was his own kidnapper + getting the place above the garage, which is the first step for getting his place in his father's heart and wiping the other son out of it totally), etc. can be easily followed, if wanted. It seems that there were mostly two kinds of reviewers, those who liked the music and wanted to understand, and those, who didn't. Anyway, for having such extreme opinions, it must be a fairly good film.It is clear, that the writers don't understand much in chemistry (in university professor level, no one would be so satisfied with a used car dealer, who knows, what size the molecules are, that they would invite him to their lab), but the plot and the filming is disturbing enough to be worth watching. The ending is not well developed, it is true.The reference to cannibalism is beautiful, it is true, that such a man (all kinds of genies, and this professor was a kind of genius, even is not in single molecule spectroscopy) can "eat" his family alive, and at the end he is eaten alive by his suppressed son, when the reference returns.

Grad student Barkley Michaelson (Bryan Greenberg) is getting his PhD in cannibalism - not for actually eating his fellow man, mind you, but for studying those who do. This choice of topic doesn't sit very well with his dad, a hateful, arrogant college professor who's just been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry and who wants his son to carry on his legacy after he's gone. Unfortunately, as Professor Eli Michaelson is over in Stockholm receiving his award, Barkley is back home in Pasadena being held for ransom by a crazed kidnapper. This is the setup for "Nobel Son," an Oedipal drama done in the form of a smart-alecky, wisecracking pitch dark comedy. Acting stalwarts Mary Steenburgen, Shawn Hatosy, Bill Pullman, Danny DeVito and Ted Danson round out the cast.If there's one thing a filmmaker can't fake, it's "coolness" - yet that's the one thing writer/director Randall Miller keeps working so hard to achieve in "Nobel Son," a movie that too often comes across as a poor-man's version of Quentin Tarentino. Yet, despite that derivativeness, the movie's frenetic style - a mixture of razzle-dazzle camera and editing techniques, snarky black humor, and a pounding rock soundtrack - reveals that Miller has some real potential as a filmmaker. And a series of nifty plot twists in the final third go a long way towards mitigating any misgivings we may have harbored about the movie earlier on.

What an amazing cast of performers with familiar past credits, Danny DeVito, Mary Steenbergen, Alan Rickman, Ted Danson, and Eliza Dushku! But put together in amazing chemistry with young men Bryan Greenberg and Shawn Hatosy.Rickman, most familiar as Professor Snape from Harry Potter, is even less lovable in this character as a Nobel Prize winning Chemistry Professor, Eli Michaelson. Steenbergen, who has played an understanding mother in 'Joan of Arcadia' is born for this role of Psychology PhD / Detective / Loving Mother and Tolerant Wife of the philandering Professor. Danny DeVito goes beyond the Comedy roles you've seen from him before to be a sad little recovering mental patient, still struggling with his OCD.Who's the biggest Psycho? Is it the Professor's son Barkley, working on a PhD in Cannibalism? Is it the scheming criminally insane Illegitimate Son Thaddeus? Or is it really the lovely Eliza Dushku playing Poet/Artist/Easy Lover named City Hall? The Plot is as twisted as the characters. But don't shy away from the early gruesomeness or you will miss a truly great Psychodrama. Or was that Psycho Drama?

The only reason I grade this movie with a 5 are Eliza Dushku's thonged buttocks in one scene. Other than that it was a complete fail on all levels. Imagine a planned con of the type you see in Ocean's Eleven, with the same silly music and the Mini Cooper cars taken from another heist movie I don't remember the name of, but all related to the dysfunctional family of a Nobel laureate. It might still be nice if it weren't for all the murders and mutilations, all done on the same silly music. And if that weren't enough, the plot has so many holes it went fractal!What were Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman (both actors that I respect a lot) doing in a piece of ... film like this? The only decent thing in this movie was the cast. Bottom line: stay away! It's so averagely bad that it doesn't even count as a movie. It's like one of those uninspired cleaning solution commercials.