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

Very Cool!!!

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The story is challenging, lurid and sordid, demanding a great modern film adaptation, but this one is just dull, dim and lifeless. No amount of scenery chewing can save it. Read the book and wait for a better film.

The setting of the story was excellently crafted, old Paris and surroundings, but I found the sexual explicit scenes a bit annoying and out of place; however, as the movie develops the plot of the story comes to life and the excitement builds. I liked the latter part of the movie the most. I also liked the beautiful scenes of nature. All in all I found this to be a film with a well written yet, very dark plot.

Thérèse Raquin (Elizabeth Olsen) is left by her father to live with his sister (Jessica Lange). Her hope of his return is lost when he's reported dead. She is pushed to marry her sickly cousin Camille (Tom Felton) by her domineering aunt. Camille finds a clerical job in Paris and the three of them move to the city. They buy a dusty shop and Thérèse is stuck behind the counters at the empty shop. She falls for Camille's new work friend Laurent (Oscar Isaac) who also paints. They quickly have an affair. However their secret affair is threatened when Camille decides to move back to the country.It's a rather dull costume drama for the first half hour. Everything is dim and cold. Olsen needs some more opportunity to do something. When she pretended to be a bear, it was a flash of something great. The movie seems to be filled with possible great moments that are quickly engulfed by the movie's overwhelming blackness and whispers. It's an old romance novel of corset ripping without any great charm.When the movie changes to a murder thriller, it picks up some energy but nothing that truly takes off. The prodding darkness keeps clawing it back to lifelessness. I never really fell in love with the couple. Lange is masterful at times but the movie is generally lifeless. It tries to be a nightmarish Hitchcockian thriller but director Charlie Stratton doesn't have the skills.

This movie is very confusing. How can men be pigs? How can you be a pig yet still be a man? If all men are pigs, are all pigs men? If not, why? I need to know! Although it is a very small line in the movie and does not greatly affect the plot, it is a very strong statement. How can an individual, being or organism be one thing and at the same time be another? In this case, we are talking about two very dissimilar animals. This is not like saying a man is at the same time a human and a mammal. The two are distinctly different species. And again, the film does not address the question of whether a pig is in fact also a man. And is the character using the term man in reference to mankind or simple male humans? While I believe the film had a good plot and generally was a good movie, it left too many unanswered questions and left the viewer contemplating in anguish the meaning of that one phrase.