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Waste of time

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

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

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This is a superb film that catches you completely by surprise. It is very disarming in the way the story is told because it is so casual and nonchalant, so much so that when the reality of what actually happens hits you it is really something. Talk about surprise! It's like a slug to the gut and you sit there trying to catch your breath wondering how something like this could have happened and you never saw it coming. Actually, in retrospect, there were clues, really obvious clues but somehow they are ignored until the film is over and you start to piece it all together and realize the unimaginable has happened. The central figure in the story is the woman and everything revolves around her but she is a complete mouse, always agreeable, hardly a threat to anyone until all hell breaks loose and she turns out to be a tsunami.

Terrific little film. Mostly (or only?) static shots, each one pretty as a picture, but it's not a pretty picture; Jacobo is an older Uruguayan man who doesn't laugh or smile and has recently lost his mother after long taking care of her, while running a sock factory as well. Then it is time for the (Jewish) ritual of placing the tombstone on her grave and his brother Hermano (which simply means 'brother') will finally come over from Brasil to pay his respects. Jacobo asks his employee Marta to stay with him for a few days, though his intentions are not very obvious or clear. Marta seems to have higher hopes than Jacobo; when she fixes them a king-size bed out of two smaller ones, but Jacobo changes it back as quickly as he can.The humour is so very dry and casual, but still can't be missed. For instance, when Jacobo puts a novelty magnet (of a little hand with the thumb pointing up) that Hermano just took a look at, back on the fridge: suddenly it's pointing down. Throughout the 'adventures' of this somewhat unlikely trio, there are many feelings simmering just below the surface and ready to burst, but nothing actually happens. If something did happen (did Marta sleep with Hermano? I'd think so) the viewer does not get to find out, or Jacobo redirects his anger towards some soccer players on a field. And nor do we find out if Marta in the end will eventually show up at work, or took the money and ran to the waterfalls in Brasil... We do have a pretty good idea, though, don't we?'Whisky' (the origin of the title I did not see coming, thinking it would have something to do with whiskEy and / or alcoholism, but it's understatedly hilarious nonetheless) turned out to be a film I was very much looking forward to on a subconscious level. It is slow-paced yet exciting in some strange way and has a contemplative feel to it that I just loved. It reminded me to give 'Bubble' (by Steven Soderbergh) another chance, which didn't impress me too much the first time, give Rebella and Stoll's debut '25 Watts' (that one I did very much like) another go, as well as 'The Man without a Past', and more by Aki Kaurismäki.A big 9 out of 10 for now.

I saw this film at the 2005 Palm Springs International Film Festival. This movie is low in budget but big in charm. Jacabo is a dour, middle aged bachelor who lived with his mother. He runs a small run down sock factory in Montevideo with archaic outdated machinery that employs only three people. One, is his assistant Marta. His much more successful brother Herman is also in the sock business in but in Brazil and is married with a family and a seasoned traveler who is up on the latest in technology and outgoing and gregarious and everything Jacabo is not or chose not to be. The mother has died and Herman is coming to Montevideo. To help polish his image Jacabo has enlisted Marta to pose as his wife during Herman's stay. They even have a studio portrait photograph taken of themselves as a happily married couple to display on the mantle. Here is where the film's title Whiskey originates as in Uruguay they say "whiskey" instead of "cheese" when posing for a photograph to muster up a smile. This is an unassuming and unpretentious film as it deals with the mundane, everyday existence of the lives of Jacabo who is trapped in his life and Marta who wishes for something more. This is a slow moving film as it examines the dullness of routine and the ordinary taken to extreme. It has it's moments and there is more to it really than there seems but the general film goer is going to find this too slow and dull with not enough to say "whiskey" about and the roles call for no outstanding acting performances to help carry it. I would give it a 6.0 of a possible 10

this movie is just plain awful, dull characters, superficial storyline,no humor. tension, twists or anything challenging whatsoever you just keep wondering what the hell you've just watched for the past 90 minutes, because there is actually nothing going on in there. i just can't find one good thing about this movie it's boring, and you actually feel like it's gonna last forever, let me describe it that way: take 3 middle aged people, and let them spend couple of days together babbling nonsense on and on. and that's what you gonna get if you feel like sleeping. i usually watch lots of foreign movies and this is the worst iv'e seen this year, go watch the sea inside. cause this one just don't worth 90 minutes of your precious time.