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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Director John Crowley and writer Mark O'Rowe create a fascinating and hilarious black comedy farce. 'Intermission', what an interesting name for a film. The title itself caught my attention. It's set in a small Irish town and focuses on its working class characters. Overlapping stories aren't anything new in film but here it is done exceptionally well. As the story builds, the connection between each character is gradually (and subtly) revealed and it feels very natural. Despite a few characters that border on being criminally insane, most of the characters are the common man and woman from various walks of life, people you see everyday who want love and respect.'Intermission' is full of energy. The action sequences are shot wonderfully, especially the final chase sequence. The writing is just solid and it has a wicked sense of humour that works excellently. Dialogues are witty and very funny. The score is quite unique.Of the cast, Colin Farrell, Kelly MacDonald, Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney and Brían F. O'Byrne are already well known internationally. They perform naturally and do nothing short of a superb job as do their costars Shirley Henderson and Ger Ryan.'Intermission's already become a favourite. I would easily recommend it to anyone (especially those who love black comedy) who's interested in witnessing a different kind of slice of life with an extra dose of adrenaline.

This is probably the funniest Irish movie ever made. The acting and script are both top drawer. I realise it is a movie for people with a certain dry sense of humor.A previous reviewer commented that the actors did well with the Irish accents! I would like to point out that most of the actors in the film are from Ireland. Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney, Colin Farrell, Deirdre O'Kane are all from Ireland. If you have the ability to laugh at things that would not be possible in normal day life, then this is the film for you. It is set in inner city Dublin and set around the lives of several different characters and their interweaving stories. Colm Meaney portrays a hard as nails detective 'Jerry Lynch' and it is without doubt the stand out performance of the film. It is a comical performance and each line is delivered perfectly. Colin Farrells performance will not disappoint fans. If anyone has ever had first experience with Dublin scumbags, then they will understand how good he is in this. Mind you, it probably comes natural to him! His fascination for woks is hysterical.This movie makes it easy for people not to take their own lives so serious and will have you laughing endlessly from start to finish. It's a comedy, enjoy.

I had no intention of renting this movie I'm the kind that likes my comedy crude and slapstick and usually involving scantily clad or nude women,and the PG (not 13 i hate 13) animated kind of movies. Yet every once in a while one of my friends or I has this itch to rent a different film and although most of the times we have met with disaster once in a while we have picked out gems like Lock Stock or Waking Ned Devine and so we keep trying these experiments, our experiments with comedies have largely been unsuccessful and I have come to realise the British-Irish-comedy movie formula a bit.This movie is an attempt at mixing two classics (Lock Stock and Love Actually) with the similar theme of seemingly unfamiliar peoples lives intersecting. A single reading of the synopsis ensured that I knew the following things.This movie would have the similar formula of introducing the characters to us, almost boring us with seemingly meaningless event and conversations, and then suddenly justifying everything in one glorious finale. All the while they will also find themselves in precarious and humorous circumstances. (The Lock Stock influence ).Also the characters would be in the constant search for love (or happiness) and will sooner or later get what they want (or realise it) but not before a tumultuous journey. (the love actually part).Common themes are the large number of characters who are related somewhat and others who are absolutely unrelated all coming together in the end.Now this sounds like being tailor made for all audiences including lovers of British comedy, women, the adventurous, the drama lovers, and obviously those who swear by the festival films.Except that somehow it ends up pleasing none of them.Some scenes are worthless and humourless to boot.Leading to large stretches of boredom.The humour is so dry that forget us lovers of loud humour even those who like their humour subtle will struggle to find it.Lovers of drama will find the lack of sadness and long conversations unappealing.The romantics will find the romance lacking and will be surprised by the absence of good looking people.The big end is actually not that big, nor that funny, nor that profound.The only people who will come out happy will be the festival lovers who will bask in the boredom and find meaning the meaningless scenes.There were positives to the movie though.Even though I don't have the superior intellect (or the drive to be different) like the festival fanatics I like movies that let you infer what the scene has to say and not have everything in black and white. This movie has a few good scenes and events that are left unexplained and it left up-to us to infer what we can.(this positive is negated by the sheer number of such scenes, and the presence of explaining scenes when none were required).This movie will not draw many laughs but has loads of smiles. The only genuinely funny scene that I found was the coffee scenes.The thing is the smiles and the almost good ending (cannot even be compared to the classics) ensure that you actually complete this movie on a higher note but even then this did not rise above the lower expectations that i had.In all a thoroughly ordinary film whose rating will be popped up by the drama and festival film lovers who will die before they say anything bad about a movie thats as boring and dry as this can be.Still I'm sure that there is a market for such films, I cannot venture to guess who they are but the rating show that this market has been reached.Wouldn't recommend it for anybody who likes commercial cinema, even lovers of big budget drama (say a million dollar baby or Gay Mountain) would best stay away from this film.-s loads of boring and meaningless scenes, not really much in it for anybody.+/-s loads of unexplained scenes, very dry and often morbid humour.+s loads of smiles, good ending (not worth the ride), a few really good scenes.total 4/10 (even after lowered expectations would not comment on absolute terms as I'm not the target audience for such movies).

Pretty much all there is to it. Frantic fashion-victim film-making using all the once-trendy clichés of MTV-like commercials. Come on guys, who will ever give a damn about these so-called "movies" in ten years. They will just feel terribly outdated and shallow.As I've already stated in my comments about similar movies, I so don't care of the story, actors, plot, social comments, or subtext when all I see and hear feels exactly like a commercial. It's just a painful experience, I feel terribly angry at having to watch at such stuff again and again. Luckily, this time it was at home so I could have some breaks.When is this senseless "falsely amateurish" way of filming fashion going to stop? It's just an annoyance, really.