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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

People are voting emotionally.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

It is not the best movie but it has very good moments I really enjoyed. The act of all actors and actresses are terrific. I liked some moments in this movie, like the time that Alexandra called her mom jealous after she found out about her affair with Daniel, or the moment Peter is looking from balcony and you expect he is committing suicide. Still, there is something missing in the plot and it is in my opinion a greater end to all this. I do not know how to address this. I like the acts, the story, some moments but still after all I was expecting a better end. However, the story seems so reasonable and there was no flaw in it. The reaction of Robert, as an instance seemed so reasonable and the other things happened after that.

String quartet that successfully plays for 25 years hits a snag, when their leader gets diagnosed with the Parkinson's disease. In their small, contained world that is tantamount to nuclear explosion. Quartet deeply depends on its member uncanny closeness and almost supernatural ability to intertwine emotions. Their famous performing piece is the Beethoven's masterpiece String Quartet, Op.131, grandiose monster with 7 movements and no pause. So, as this disaster looms over them, their grievances and pent up emotions, threaten to undermine everything they managed to accomplish. Unfulfilled ambitions, loves not returned, or just the merciless passage of time, when looking behind you is less painful than glancing into the future. And above all, gorgeous music, mostly Beethoven, and the stunning aria written by Erich Korngold, sung by Anne Sofie Von Otter. Life continues because it must, all the flutter of our hearts slows down and we plod along. Beethoven helps.

"A Late Quartet" sets out on a lofty premise: the human intrigue of a longstanding string quartet that vauntedly plays Beethoven's great meditation on mortality and the abyss, the Op. 131 quartet. And promptly it begins to stumble, with arid, dessicated execution pretending to be contemplative. One quartet member gets an unfortunate medical diagnosis, but in fact the diagnosis isn't nearly as bad as the producers and directors posture it as being. Meanwhile, the storyline between two quartet members who are a couple becomes soap-operatic. What I kept hoping this film would achieve is resonance between the arc of the story and the movements of the quartet, which contains some of the profoundest existential utterances by Western man. It never does. Meanwhile, I know intimately at least three dozen fine ensemble performances of the Op. 131, and while I do not expect the rendition provided in the soundtrack to be measured by them, the interpretations provided in the score don't move me. There is fine talent here, and I never don't enjoy Catherine Keener in anything, but the totality of this film cannot help but stray into being lapidary and boring.

Pretentious film, with a weak plot and OK but unimpressive acting. The film pretends to show a psychological drama inside a famous string quartet. Instead it is very banal melodrama with a predictable and flat plot. Don't expect to learn new things about Beethoven or classical music from this film. One of the actors (Christopher Walken) is not fitting the role and this is poorly masked by barely showing his hands when he is playing cello. The other actors at least give impression that they had some violin training. This film is supposed to be about finding an ultimate perfection in music but the actual performance leaves much to be desired.