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To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

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

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I've watched 'Franklyn' twice now. The first time I really liked it. The second time, I'm not so impressed. I think it was down to me knowing what was happening even earlier than I had originally.It's an odd piece about two stories running parallel to each other. Nothing that original you might say, but one story is set in a clearly futuristic, dystopian world while the other is simply present day London. You may wonder how exactly these two worlds are connected. Then you kind of figure it out yourself (probably about midway) and the film then continues as if you're still in the dark.Some bits of it are very good - Ryan Phillipe is about the best actor by far who does his best to life what - sometimes - is a bit of a flat script. If you like weird and dark futuristic worlds, you'll like his story best. However, his parts are almost like an action film, whereas the London bits are more like your basic melodrama, leaving the viewer feeling a little off balance.There is definitely an interesting story here (and made more interesting the way it's told). However, I understand that it was originally a SHORT story. That explains a lot. It does feel like it's been dragged out a bit. I can see Franklyn definitely finding an audience. You have to be into lesser-known movies that deliberately try something different. However, I can also see as many people finding it boring, incomprehensible and worthless. Research it carefully before you invest your hour and a half in this film.

Pretty much agree entirely with Neil Welch's review on here. Though personally I'd give it about a 4, because I did derive some enjoyment from Franklyn.But they needed to sit down and re-edit the plot lines once they had the basics down. Essentially they started booking the cast, cgi and catering before they had the whiteboard flow-charting fully scribbled out.At about the half-way mark I commented to my partner, in words approximated thus - "I have a dreadful feeling that this is one of those films where they think they can get away with three {I hadn't noticed it was four yet - ed.} separate completely un-related threads and call it a film." Ie. the kind of thing that a 22 year old film student thinks is "terribly, frightfully original" whereas in fact it's been tried time and again and it *never* works, the threads must be related in some way. And the relationship needs to be a good one, an artistically whole one (for an example of completely failing to do this, take Jane-I-Swear-Its-Art-Campion's utterly disastrous 'Holy Smoke').Eventually my fears were allayed but... it still didn't quite work. Along with Neil I have to say that Milo really didn't need to be there. The only reason the adult Sally looked like Emelia was his chance meeting in the park when she was stalking him for her video project. Come on, thats a very tenuous link. And the cleaners got to be mysterious know-it-all figures without any real justification: it was hinted that they shared the same space as Sally, but hints weren't enough by this stage of the film, it should have been coming together not getting vaguer.And one more thing. Can we please stop praising Eva Green. If you want to get into her pants, contact her agent. She only has one act, and it's bloody annoying. It suited her role in Penny Dreadful, it suits her role here as the direly, *direly* narcissistic Emelia. But either way, I just wanted somebody to step in, yell "you're a parasitic w*nker!" and punch her in the face. Her tutor *almost* gave me satisfaction, but even he ended up one of the film's insipid roadkill elements.Can't bring myself to hate this film because there was so much I liked about it, but gaaaahhh, somebody needs a stern talking-to.

I could say this movie had action, romance, some horror, a little flair of mystery thrown in, and I certainly wouldn't be lying. There are essentially two worlds: Modern day London, England, and a strange futuristic looking place called Meanwhile city. London is the domain of Milo, a romantic who's been down on his luck with every girl since leaving his childhood friend, and Emilia, an art student with a tendency to try to kill herself on video. Meanwhile City is the domain of Preest, a faithless man in the midst of a city ruled by hundreds of different religions and patrolled by the "clerics". In London, there's the mystery of the strange red haired girl from Milo's past, Emilia's "art", and Peter Esser trying to find his missing son. In Meanwhile, Preest avoids Clerics and traitors while tracking the leader of a religious group that sacrificed a young girl. All these elements were confusing at first, but weird and fantastic enough to keep me occupied until the pieces began to fall into place, and suddenly these two "separate" worlds became one, and it all made sense. Preest is actually Peter Esser's missing son, and his mind has created it's own world after the traumatic death of David Esser's (Preest's) younger sister, then blaming in on his father, Peter, who is the leader of the religious cult in Meanwhile. This worked fine and dandy, until just about the last minute or so of the movie in an anti-climatic, "oh dear, that was sort of weird. Are you alright?" and paramedics who decide "Ok, even though this guy just got SHOT in the ARM and is most likely losing BLOOD, we'll let him have a tender moment with that girl who just stumbled out of a building that EXPLODED. Anyone else want to give this realistic B.S. a go 'cause I'm pretty damn sure I'M FIRED :D (did I forget to mention it turns out 2/3 of the main characters are clinically insane? No? Oh. Well, it also turns out that 2 out of the 3 main characters are just insane, and the 3rd is definitely pushing it.)

My wife knows I like superhero movies and movies like the matrix and Donnie Darko. Put all those facts together, and seeing the cover of Franklyn in the store, and she had all the reasons to buy this movie.At first I thought, maybe this could be something. But on the other hand, if it would have been something, why is this movie not so known? The movie begins with David's fantasy, where he's the Preest. Now here's something bothering me. Ryan Phillippe's performance of Jonathan Preest was very similar to Jackie Earle Haley's performance of Rorschach. I can't say that Ryan P. is the copycat, because Franklyn is from 2008 and Watchmen is from 2009.So I follow the story further, with Eva Green and her disturbing relationship with her mother and her suicide attempts to make a projects. This was all new for me, but I stayed open minded. But even then I did not like this performance of Eva Green and I could not know why.So we walk to the third character Milo with his imaginary girlfriend from the past. Now this character is more simple and easier to follow, or is that deceiving? Did Eva Green just fail to put up the right performance for the job? And at the end all fits in; There was a great story to tell, the translation to film was just boring. Acting was boring. It could have had more drama. With a story with so many depths you have to have actors and actresses who can act with depths. With deeper emotions. And that was not there in this movie.Sometimes when you write a book, or make a movie, you must think if you are ready for it. And of course it's worth to risk the jump, but in this case it would have been better if the story would have waited a few more years to come to the movies. Nolan waited many years to bring out Inception, and he did a very, very good job.Now I have to disagree BBC5 live; this movie was not fantastic and wasn't even close to The Matrix and Donnie Darko. It could have been though.