Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Pretty Good

Good movie but grossly overrated

Absolutely the worst movie.

Cheesy. Lukewarm acting. Amateur script. Painful to watch and not even sure why we wasted the time to finish it. Metacritic score and reviews were spot on.

The literature world sometimes has an awful manner of self-justifying itself beyond the obvious. People like to read. I get that. What they don't like, is to be told by a literati why it is they might choose to so do.So, on this basis, the film has an air of pretension about it. Beyond that, a stranger approaches you in a park one day and claims to be the true author of a book bearing your name, just published to wild acclaim. What would you do? I'll tell you what I would do: ask the person to prove their claim, otherwise stop scamming me. That is where this film should have ended or explored.

¡¡¡Spoilers!!!First of all, this film deserves a huge amount of credit just making a film for adults as there are precious few of those today.The concept of a writer taking credit for the work of another artist is well-covered territory. This isn't to say that it is too tired to be done again and this story certainly has its share of original twists.I thought the protagonist was way too whiny about his lack of success as a writer, like being a literary superstar was his entitlement. It didn't speak much about him the fact that he didn't set the world on fire with his first book was enough to break him. And from whiny little sissy he is getting chauffeured limo rides? As a writer? After one book? Unlikely at best. He finds a manuscript and he doesn't change a word? It just seems that if he had any talent he could have stole the story and made it his own. Publishing it as he found it would have just been stupid. How would he ever know that it wasn't published somewhere? After he gets rich and famous he gets even whinier.In the end I just got the feeling that the two writers don't read enough and watch too many movies. The film lacks any sort of verisimilitude; it's like a reflection of another movie of the same theme. Corny is a word that comes quickly to mind when you see the scenes of the love affair in Paris. A word that doesn't come to mind is realistic, nor anything close to that. It just looks like a Paris created on a Hollywood lot, a Paris created by people who may have been to Paris but haven't read enough or thought enough about it to have anything original to add. A thing that you learn from watching too many movies is that dead babies are sad. Once again, super corny.Absolutely everything about the part in France was just dreadful and difficult to watch for me. He throws a temper tantrum and ruins his own flat? What sort of moron would do that? Once again, they just took the Hollywood way of showing anger. Think again. "The words simply poured out of him." Think again. After the loss why in the hell didn't he just rewrite it? How hard could that have been if he wrote it in two weeks? I think the two writers were just so mesmerized with their concept that they didn't bother much with the execution. "We all make our choices; the hard part is living with them." Another dud of a line in a movie that is supposed to be about great writing. I think they stole this one from something their half-senile aunt posted on Facebook under a picture of a cat hanging from a branch.The ending was the worst part by far.

I think the critics are harsh ..the movie was very deep and beautiful, Bradley cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid acted very beautifully ..but the end what about it ?! i didn't know for sure is that a twist in the ending or what ,is clay (Dennis Quaid) is himself Rory (cooper) and the old man is just made up so clay can relief himself and think that's okay and live with his choice ? i don't know actually but it is a great film indeed ... i loved the scene when Rory tell Dora that his life is not right and he was not satisfied about his life "after they were in a restaurant " this scene touched me, the movie is different have a brilliant story writing.