Grabs your attention with myriad possibilities, intrigue and suspense. Such continues for a full two-thirds of the film and then just totally evaporates. Indeed, if you want to watch the first hour or so just do so and then turn LEOPARD off and make up your own ending. It's not that the last third of the film is disappointing, implausible, inconsistent, etc. Rather, it is numbingly mundane, cruel and inconsequential. What a shame. Odd to say, but if this film didn't appear to be so darn good at first the ending wouldn't be so downright irritating. Okay, okay, some homage paid to Steinbeck's "East of Eden". And at the price of creating a truly annoying film.
5 Reviews
Confused, Confusing Poorly Written Stinker...
palainausa10 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
..with overtones of incest. Not to mention that no one was the least bit likeable, except possibly the publican, who I recognized from Red Rock. My wife wanted to watch this one through in the hopes of at least seeing the west of Ireland, but there was very little of that. And now a special note to Hollywood, Bollywood and all the rest: when you dig a grave in a forest, you will hit tree roots. Lots of them. Big ones that you cannot glide through with your light shovel.
S - L - O - W !!!
wtprincetx18 September 2021
Not altogether awful, but brutally slow. Not a long movie-it just seemed that way. It had some potential but wasn't executed well. Very dark, but life is like that sometimes. Not sorry I watched it but won't watch it again.
Emotional, challenging, gripping
smint16 August 2013
Two brothers, reunited after the death of their father in a bleak Irish backwater. The film explores their complex relationship and the reasons for Jack's departure and unwelcome return.
The cinematography is stunning, the music sublime, and the plot twists so that you mentally undo all your assumptions on more than one occasion. Parts of the film are uncomfortable to watch, yet you can't tear your eyes away from the screen.
Tom Hopper plays a character so far removed from Merlin's Sir Percival and extracts such a range of emotions from the viewer that it's difficult to believe they're the same person. Eoin Macken plays a feckless Irish drunk. And then so much more. Helen Pearson is absolutely compelling, even if her role is difficult to watch.
Be prepared to be totally absorbed and then haunted by it.
The cinematography is stunning, the music sublime, and the plot twists so that you mentally undo all your assumptions on more than one occasion. Parts of the film are uncomfortable to watch, yet you can't tear your eyes away from the screen.
Tom Hopper plays a character so far removed from Merlin's Sir Percival and extracts such a range of emotions from the viewer that it's difficult to believe they're the same person. Eoin Macken plays a feckless Irish drunk. And then so much more. Helen Pearson is absolutely compelling, even if her role is difficult to watch.
Be prepared to be totally absorbed and then haunted by it.
AMAZING
JuliaJHunt10 May 2020
Very well written movie, directed in a very consciousness way and with empathy towards the characters that are endowed with a deep psychology.
This movie really makes you understand what means have a mental disorder and especially the importance of a healthy environment and family.
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