Sadly Over-hyped

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This line is in the movie and applies to it perfectly. It's even closer: Al plays a great actor in decline and it's exactly what's the movie turns to be: Al in decline or more accurately Al in a really bad movie. Indeed, this production is the usual BS that Hollywood feds up with since a couple of years: awful orange / blue grading: maybe it's a bit less exaggerated here as there is some beautiful natural light but when the grass is green, i still don't want to see it brown. the gay character: in the 80s, every family movie needs to have a dog; in the 2000s, every American movie needs a lesbian or fag: they are so much everywhere that you could expect it's the norm now. the shrink character: as the previous one, this one seems also inescapable and it's rather a gloom verdict: in American movies, it seems that personal problems means psychiatric ones and to have a better life, you must be cured by those incredible medicine officers! This analysis arises indeed when the character fails to work... Did the writer ever heard about economy and being old ????the wealthy character: forget the old ordinary, working people, now Hollywood stars want only movies that matches their lifestyle and you wonder why the budget are so important! the narcissus behind the scenes: Hollywood doing movies about actors, movies is just the ground 0 of imagination, filmmaking! With all their money, they are shameful lazy to bring new ideas! the amoral romance with a Grandpa and a young woman: Here the age difference is 43 years and they mall call it love, i call it light incest: it's like a Dad sublimates his pulsation with a surrogate daughter. I remember to have watched a stinker like this recently (Elegy with Pénelope) and i'm not surprised it has the same pitiful (and old) writer Roth! So with all that BS, it was painful to watch Al, all the more that he was doing comedy for one time! His Shakespeare moments are also great because he is really into that and i suppose that we are really close to the real Al (messy hair, slumped, bad dark dressed) but at the end, this movie is rather disgusting! Actually, with a feeble Spielberg (bridge of spies) and a poor Al, we must realize that American movies are in big crisis if not in total decay and fresh air, new ideas must come in if they want to inspire again!!!

Al was broken, penniless and decided to shoot the worst movie of his life to keep buying stuff for his much younger lover, it is not worth seeing this movie. Is an awful copy of Bird man. Bad acting amidst a worst script. There is a serious mental illness in the movie the one that suffer the guy who wrote the script. In the movie there is an actor too old to play that make every body miserable, Al is the actor and the audience that is to say we are made miserable. Save your many and go see some thing else. I would like to tell you some thing else but I cannot, there is a heated pool in winter in Connecticut, and a girl from Baywatch swimming in it. There is a also ghost from some Shakespeare play that rumbles the story aimlessly without propose nor reason.

"The Humbling" is a cinematic masterpiece. It is a recent film from 2014. And it was superbly directed by Barry Levinson. The writers are Buck Henry and Michal Zebede. The fine cast includes Al Pacino, Charles Grodin, Greta Gerwig, Kyra Sedgwick, Dianne Wiest, Nina Arianda, Dylan Baker, Dand Hedya, Maru Louise Wilson, Billy Porter, Li Jun Li, Jennifer Regan, Maria De Angelis, Victor Cruz, Ricky Paul Goldin, Emily Dorsch, Andrea Barnes, Peter Grancis James, Richard Hughes, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Otoja Abit, Steve Rosen, Katrina E. Perkins, Derrick Arthur, Zack Robi, Angela Cohen, Suzan Perry, Karah Seine, Tim Falter, Andrew Polk and Dennis Lauricella. The story involves a retired Broadway actor who is losing his memory and has his sexuality challenged by the daughter of an old trysting partner. The twists and turns in this comedy drama are worth the time. It is now on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming and I gave it 9 stars. Dale Haufrect

When the mind starts to play tricks with us, consequence of the aging process, presenting new difficulties in our ordinary and daily tasks it is very hard to understand and specially to accept.An aging actor begins to have memory lapses which become a serious problem, first present to us when he passes out on stage.With our senses altering we begin to cling to all things that make us feel good, replacing the bad feeling of possibly failure, like, in this movie, a young women, lesbian (or not) or bisexual (or not) with dubious motivations.Al Pacino plays the aging actor in a brilliant performance, supported by great actors.It's a movie off the beaten path, but altogether similar to Birdman, worthwhile watching due to the emotions it portrays, and the truthfulness the characters are immerse by the actors.The attempt to show others, as well as ourselves, that we can still do the some things, the we still got it can sometimes be tragic.This is a great movie ad it is always good to see Al Pacino.