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So much average

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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

This is yet another movie I never heard of that I suddenly discovered on a 14+ hour plane ride from Hong Kong to Dallas. The plot is fairly straightforward and the characters genuine. All of the actors do an excellent job of making you forget they are actors. The small turns and twists keep it engaging without getting too far-fetched. It had me engrossed all the way through the closing credits, and some aspects of it really hit home (Bruce Dern reminded me of my late father in many ways).I doubt this film won any major awards but it should have. It was creative and endearing, and most importantly, a topic many of us can connect to. Make the effort to find this movie, it is touching and worth the time!

Alexander Payne directs "Nebraska". Another of the director's "road movies", it stars Bruce Dern as Woody Grant, an elderly man who thinks he's won a million dollars. In an attempt to collect his winnings, Grant journeys from Montana to Nebraska. Joining him is his son David (Will Forte)."Nebraska" recalls "The Last Picture Show", "Paris, Texas" and David Lynch's "The Straight Story". Like those films, it portrays a world in decline, dreams shattered, hopes dashed and aspirations stifled. Where "Nebraska" differs from its siblings is in the way its characters all parasitize one another. Everyone's extinguishing the dreams of someone else or using someone else to make their own desires come true. As a result, Payne's cast drift like bodies sucked dry by vampires, forlorn, dying, or on the verge of surrender. Even the film's million dollar prize is but a scam by a magazine company. Even the film's aesthetic – chilly blacks and whites – suggests a world sucked dry of life and leached of all colour. Even the film's settings, lonely and abandoned, suggest a world in decay. Even the film's...But David refuses to abide. He begins to empathise with his father, who longs for heaps of money and a brand new truck. The film's million dollar prize, David comes to realise, has become his father's last ditch attempt to reverse a lifetime of disappointment. "All he wanted was to sleep, was to dream of escape," characters say in "Paris, Texas". Woody Grant seeks a similar flight from reality. It's a flight which David facilitates. He buys his father a new truck and lets him drive it through his old home town; the bragging rights of an insecure man. An unappreciated man. And, at times, a monster of a man.Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt", one of the first films to subvert America's Norman Rockwellesque image of herself, ended with a little girl lying so that The American Dream might be preserved. "Nebraska" ends in a similar way. Neither David nor Woody really believe that a million dollars have been won, or that a life has been salvaged, but they choose to believe anyway. They choose to preserve a myth.Like most of Payne's films, "Nebraska's" female characters are poorly written and/or used as easy comedic props. Still, Bruce Dern is excellent as Woody and Will Forte is fine in a rare serious role. Elsewhere the film offers some nice landscape shots, all sad and wistful. June Squibb co-stars.7.9/10 – See "Away from Her" and "Paris, Texas".

Yeah, maybe I am a bit late reviewing this movie, but I had to.This movie got my attention long time ago, but I just couldn't see it when it got released in 2013.It was a great story about a broken relationship of a son and his father. Dialogs are pretty much everything in the movie. Catches your attention in every moment till' the end of it.Acting was just fabulous. Characters are so well played that I even felt identified with them.There's one thing that catched my attention too, it was that this movie shows how interested the people is, and it's sad to say it, but unfortunately we are that way and always gonna be. Coming back to the movie, it is even funny at some times. So if you've not seen it yet (witch is probably wrong) or you are thinking of watching it and for some reason you are here and see my review, I strongly recommend this movie to you.9/10

Alexander Payne's Nebraska is the story of an elderly man's quest to collect a million dollar prize he's won in the post. Starring Bruce Dern - in a career-best performance - his character, Woody, is first seen trying to walk from Montana to Nebraska when he's stopped on the highway by a police officer. Woody isn't entirely clear of mind, whilst his sons are aloof and his wife, played brilliantly by June Squibb, constantly berates him. But Woody is determined to get his million dollars and endeavours to walk to Nebraska even when his son explains that it's only a mail scam that he's trying to collect. Undeterred, Woody is soon being driven to Nebraska by his son, where the narrative picks up on the conventions of a buddy/road movie, as they encounter numerous situations and characters along the way. In particular, Woody's devious old business partner, played superbly by Stacy Keach, and a leeching family who want their share of Woody's money. At times, Nebraska is reminiscent of Yashujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, with the elderly characters being misunderstood and unappreciated by their children, until they learn of their lives, loves and a very full existence that came to shape who they are. This is brilliant and affecting story-telling.