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Perfect cast and a good story

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

A Disappointing Continuation

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The movie revolves around a couple of band members, the most abnormal and unlikely people to be in a band. Okay so basically the band is formed with few handicapped people, which is sort of unique I guess and and they are also a bit of a lunatics. The movie has a grimy premise and the characters are grimy as well and offensive, but it's still exhilarating and the sort of innovative direction made it work. I also enjoyed the music in this movie and it worked really well with the atmosphere of this movie with it's scenarios. What starts off as forming of a band goes a bit more to the sock value area, but unfortunately the shock value isn't used all that effectively. All in all it wasn't all that effective and didn't do enough in some areas.6.6/10

It's always a pleasure for me just to see a film that's not coming from Hollywood and does not follow a standard scheme in either look or story. And hell yes - this film is different! Very bizarre and dives far deeper into the s--t than Hollywood would allow. But does that make the movie any good? Not for me.I don't think there are spoilers here but who knows ...The movie starts with a couple of "handicapped" guys who show up at the house of the protagonist. They are in search for a drummer to join their rock band and participate at a rock festival. The main character is a drummer and also a famous writer. He is not interested in punk music or the drums too much ... the reason he teams up with the guys is because he wants to see the extremely bad conditions they live in. These conditions couldn't be any worse. All of them live in extremely dirty run down houses. They struggle with drug addiction and other obsessions like one of them seems to be addicted to sex and at least makes the impression he could be a rapist or something. There is not too much depth to the story. It's pretty loose as we basically see the guys hanging around and sometimes preparing for the final rock show. Our drummer is always watching from a very distance. He never offers help to the poor guys rather treating them with disrespect. It seems like the only purpose to see them suffering is to feel better himself when he returns home.The movie also deals with senseless gimmicks to make the film even stranger. For example the first scenes that are completely running backwards for no reason.While I am into punk rock I didn't even like the music.When we come to a bloody ending the film tries to make some meaningful statements that for me come out of nowhere and are not build on the content (cheap content anyway) of the picture before.I really tried to believe there was more to this film - (maybe there is?) but at least I couldn't find it.3.5/10

"Ex Drummer" starts out great. The setting and plot are so wacky it's a delight. The characters alternately amuse and shock you with their actions. The movie has been described as a "Trainspotting" for the new millennium and while the comparison isn't totally fitting, "Ex Drummer" shares the run down cast of freaks with the Ewan McGregor vehicle.The first half is totally brilliant, original, refreshing and with a great soundtrack as the icing on the cake. In the second half, however, the movie loses some of its wit. It's there that you realize that "Ex Drummer" isn't really going anywhere, although it all started so promising. Characters just hit, abuse and swear at each other for no apparent reason and it all becomes a bit tiring.The movie's ending is rather anti-climatic. The credits role and you're left puzzled, feeling that this could have made a much bigger impact on you, if the story had gone somewhere else. Maybe that's not the movie's fault but the fault of the novel, which it is based upon.In the end "Ex Drummer" is a refreshing example of non-American film-making. It will leave you with your mouth open more than just a few times. Unfortunately, the beginning promises more than the rest of the movie can keep. Still, "Ex Drummer" is a must-see. One of the most unusual movies of the past ten years.

This was just an OK euro flick, imho.I got the vibe that it was trying to be too much like Trainspotting or even Irreversible. Considering it had a significant budget to work with, the cinematography and story telling was disappointing.Expected the movie to be a lot better and more stylish that this.It was interesting for sure and better that a lot of Hollywood dreck, but nothing that exciting that says, wow, didn't see that coming, maybe I have seen too many edgy cult movies! Pity, as i generally love this type of genre.But worth digging out if can find it as a curiosity piece.