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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

justice.revenge.an old and painful trauma. Turkish and Armenian confrontation in France. importance of roots, family and duty. result - a gray movie about victims, politics and form of survive. only problem - ambiguity of story. and ambition to explore all in Manichaian style.circle with broken organization, it is one of pledge for basic values.in harsh way, precise but to difficult to be real universal. Aram is hero, killer,guilty brother and prodigal son, enemy of state and piece of political machine but it is not a deep picture. only drawing of a world in few lines. to tell much is not just tell exactly. and this is the error of movie. some suggestions. and a lots of doors.

I'm guessing this movie didn't have much of a budget, and damn it shows. However a movie's quality cannot be judged by its budget and plenty of lower budget films have managed to transcend money issues to deliver grand viewing experiences. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about Aram. The filming is atrocious and borderline amateurish. This will sound pompous and boastful but my first short as a film student looked more professional than this. At its best, Aram looks like a bad TV-film thriller from the early 90s, minus the thrills. The film is boring as hell. Barely five minutes had passed when I first looked at my watch and by the 30 minute mark I felt like dozing off. The horrible filming previously mentioned is a reason for this but there are others, such as the film's near total lack of music. Director Robert Kechichian probably did this to obtain a greater sense of realism, such as in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but unlike Kubrick's masterpiece it really doesn't work here (and hell, even 2001 had a few memorable and powerful musical moments). Kechichian somehow manages to film scenes such as shootings in a manner less suspenseful and exciting than a Teletubbies episode. The actors all seem to be rejects from stuff like The Young And The Restless, and are certainly not aided by Kechichian's spectacularly bad dialogs (seriously, who speaks like that?). The only actor who manages to come out somewhat unscathed is Simon Abkarian, playing the titular character. The DVD box proclaims this to be a masterpiece and you guessed it, I strongly disagree. It tries to be an "art film", concentrating more on the characters and their inner turmoil, but fails miserably. The story could have been interesting, with different dialogs and a different director, alas we're stuck with a bad script, unconvincing acting and unengaging film-making that all contribute to a very unpleasant viewing experience. All-in-all, I think Aram's big problem is that it never feels real. I have a wide range of tastes where movies are concerned, and I'm usually pretty easy on them, so when I say I thought this was bad, I really mean it. Of course there will always be people who will like it, but I sincerely can't understand why.

Plenty of violence. The movie is about Terror not about corny one line jokes or how menacing you can look. This is a movie well done, that will only get better in the sequel. It is as if there is more to be told about this intriguing and unknown gangsters. No night clubs where everyone knows your name. Family people with an agenda...so refreshing... excellent. This movie can be compared to Bourne Identity and Ronin where those movies were full of meaningless banter about who is to who and what is to what. None of that here. Very simple gangster life. Except the emotion is portrayed in the family of the lead actor. I can see a sequel to this movie on the level of GodFather II. With the budget and the right script these are the movies that are sleepers that can become big big hits!

When i was watching this movie, i was feeling the same, as i was watching a spy film. Nevertheless, some of the clues are not comprehensible at first sight, but it's not annoying. It's very notable, that Kechichian don't actually focus on Armenian-Turkey politics issues, however, it is insufficient action thriller. Kechichian managed to make unglamourized spy film, but it can be considered only as an alternative movie. I've found lots of similarities with such masterpieces of John Frankenheimer 'Ronin' and Doug Liman 'The Bourne Identity'. It's pity that i haven't found in "ARAM" auto chases, a real street skirmishes and a pair of famous actors as Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. On the contrary, where could we find such emotionless and equanimity of Simon Abkarian's face when he was killing turks...