The Maid (2014) User Reviews

Disappointing

[totocol-178-536608 · 5/10 · 27 September 2015]

A good story but unfortunately spoiled by a terrible script and really bad acting. The actors are unfortunately not very believable and the teenager looked more like a 30 year old.

Kahane's French accent was not very believable ad unfortunately it is hard also to believe why a nice young girl would fall in love with a spoiled brat who keeps on insulting her.

The camera work was OK at some points and rather poor during some scenes.

The dad was a little bit more believable.

The story itself could have been made into a better film

Motherly ... love

[kosmasp · 6/10 · 23 May 2021]

You know the saying: Kill your father and ... well you know what your mother. Both being true here in a sense. Though the "mother" in this case is not literal since she is not in the picture (anymore) - no pun intended. The boy is quite annoying and self righteous - or at least he gave me that impression. Mayby it is "the acting" that makes me believe that.

One thing is for sure, if you think about watching this because you think or hope this is going to be titilating .. do not! There is some erotic flavor in this, but it does not warrant seeing this, if that is all you are after! This is more a drama about feelings, about innocense and about growing up - stepping into "manhood" ... blooming or whatever you want to call it. A decent enough effort if you are able to put some flaws aside (pacing, acting to name a few).

Soap Opera Tripe

[twotrybe · 1/10 · 9 April 2015]

Jack, the main character, is a horny, whiny, self-centered bastard. The dialog is terrible. He is delusional with his affection to the maid who is much older than he is. You can't buy into this one bit with his whining all the time about his dead mother and his relationship with his father who he refers to by his first name. He is verbally abusive and you just don't have any sympathy for him whatsoever. He is manipulative and I found the other reviews on this astounding when they praise this film.

This id supposedly falls in love with the maid after two days. You just want to b@itch slap the kid after one day. He acts like he is entitled to his own suffering and that nobody else matters. Just avoid this film if you don;t want to get angry at this preposterous melodrama soap opera tripe.

Utter garbage

[rjfwoodhurst · 1/10 · 28 June 2016]

I felt compelled to write this, my first review, as the ratings for this have so clearly been rigged. This feels like a mediocre 6th form media studies project. The script is dire, the story-line hackneyed and the acting workmanlike. The casting too is awful - Jack is supposed to be 17 but has a clearly receding hairline that puts him at or beyond the actor's real age of 26, and the supposedly much older maid Maria looks (and in real life is) the same age. The father is very 'regional TV drama series'. The pace is glacially slow and there is constant hotel lounge-bar piano music in accompaniment.

My son and I just ended up laughing at the clichés and overall awkwardness. Don't waste your time on this - just dig out The Graduate again and marvel...

Interesting

[OldPolitico · 7/10 · 15 September 2015]

Miss Kahane is wonderful, the rest of the actors adequate. Cinematography and production values are good. Where this film suffers, IMO, is the writing. This seems a curious complaint to have to note when the writer is also the director. It seems to me that some of the dialog is repetitious and doesn't move the story along. The other problem for me is the loose ends left hanging which give the impression a sequel is intended. On the whole, it is a very secular story about forgiveness and redemption of a sort with which some viewers might not be comfortable. That's about all that needs to be said without getting into spoiler territory.

Let's go back to the plot. Jack, a very unpleasant alcoholic whose mother died when he was born, has been living with a maternal uncle in the States since his step-mother spilled the beans a decade or so earlier and let him know she was not his natural mother. Since then, his father has divorced and we never meet step-mother or half-brother. Jack has been goaded by his uncle into going to the UK to spend his 18th birthday with his father who lives alone but has a very attractive French woman, Maria, who comes in days to cook and clean for him. Becky, a local girl makes a play for Jack, but he rejects her to pursue Maria whom he also treats shabbily. At the end, we wonder if Maria really wanted Jack or used him for a purpose of her own.

I hated this movie!

[melialonso · 1/10 · 13 August 2015]

BAD BAD BAD VERY BAD MOVIE!!!

If you want to lose 99 precious minutes of your life I recommend do anything else, NOT SEE THIS MOVIE !!

It's the worst I saw. The dialogue is ridiculous, sad performances and the story seems straight out of a bad , poor and cheap soap opera. It is impossible to empathize with the principal character.

I am so angry I did my user only to warn others innocent bystanders of this disaster , I can not believe that the film has 7.1 points and that 3 out of 4 reviews are positive

If there is a negative score would give -10 points this film, INCREDIBLY BAD !!

PS: apologize for my English, It is bad as the movie ;)

A Story of Innocence and Longing

[angiequidim · 8/10 · 21 May 2014]

This is a classic story driven movie where the interaction of the actors is complimented by the stunning cinematography from Paul Emmanuel. This moving piece has the audiences trapped in the emotionally charged relationship of Jack and Maria and how they slowly unravel their troubled pasts. Having a great story isn't enough if the actors can't portray the characters and the delicate interactions between them. Both leads had great chemistry and watching them is like two dancers constantly intertwining and separating with graceful movements. The locations and scenery is beautiful; the English countryside and a perfect place for love to blossom.

Juvenile male wish fulfillment

[cruzarts-73946 · 3/10 · 22 May 2020]

Such laughable tripe delivered with urgent longing and fiery emotion reminiscent of an electric fireplace.

In what world does a hot maid dress in loose-fitting clothes, her lush hair tumbling around her shoulders, and she wears impeccable makeup while doing laundry?

That would be in the same world where she needs emotional rescue from a snotty Ameircan 18-y/o brat.

Great movie !

[novoselac · 8/10 · 25 September 2014]

I watched this movie not knowing what to expect. On the one hand I was excited because I heard some good stuff about it, but as always, I was a bit skeptical because it is an independent movie. No big studios behind it. And it was a really refreshing change from watching the over-fed Hollywood blockbusters, that in the late time, tend to look-alike.

I won't give away much, but it is about somewhat forbidden fruit, love that was not suppose to happen. Young guy with a bright future falls for an older maid. The maid recognized many similarities between her and the young boy, and he reminded her of her own forgotten hopes and dreams. On the other side, he found someone who understands him.

Can they make it, can their love stand the test of time? Well, I recommend you to go and watch this nice movie and enjoy in it, as I have enjoyed. I give it a 8/10!

Better Title: The Cringe

[SexyActorsJunkie · 2/10 · 23 August 2022]

This movie was bad in so many ways: BAD dialogue (from repetitive/simplistic/cringy to laughable at times) BAD acting, BAD French accent, BAD chemistry between the leads, BAD boy so completely unlikable that nobody should ever want anything to do with him, BAD teaser pre-sex scenes so BAD that they were actually pretty nauseating to revolting (the incest angle of the "seduction.") Don't waste your time watching this, unless you adore overly long and tedious movies with stupid characters and poor script with no satisfying payoff to the story whatsoever.

Rather not ...

[keenast · 1/10 · 1 September 2018]

... as there's nothing to enjoy or like or to think about. Mediocre acting of everybody involved, camera and lighting awful really and story just sooo predictable.

A so-called 16 year old guy (26 ?) hitting on a girl a movie doesn't make? Somewhat preposterous.

Boring, clichéd, teenage fantasy

[surge_013 · 1/10 · 13 January 2016]

The Maid is a disappointing story about a young spoiled alcoholic teenager Jack (Ryan Cerenko) who comes home to his father, falls in love with the maid, Maria (Claire Kahane) and through this relationship somehow mends his broken past. It is played out through sappy conversations, and unrealistic scenarios with a fixation on Jack somehow getting the "motherly" love he never got through Maria, who is nothing but a providing caricature of a woman. Jack is angry, spoiled, whiny, and somehow Maria just dotes on him. The fantasy continues, she nurses him the way he would as a baby, and even when they go out on a date later, he lies with his head in her lap, a constant reminder of his lack of masculinity and desire to be "babied". It's really a pathetic fantasy evoked in a male-centric universe as he denies affections from Becky (Olivia Jewson) a female peer that throws herself shamelessly at him, even going as far to offer him birthday sex, to obtain the affections of Maria.

The Maid is a waste of time. While most son/older women films run typically a darker side, The Maid remains just steeped in male-oriented dream of what could have been, with little point to be made.

Poor film, as some of these other reviews has mentioned, an artificially inflated IMDb score.

The bad greatly outweighs the good

[dshannon1042 · 3/10 · 11 July 2019]

The good: Claire Kahane is gorgeous The bad: Everything else. The acting, the dialogue, the character development, did I mention the acting? The "story" is of an incredibly obnoxious teenage boy (who looks nothing like a teenager) returning home to his father whom he's estranged from and treats the incredibly beautiful maid like garbage yet still somehow has a sexual relationship with her. The story is not believable, the dialogue is cringeworthy, and the acting is not good (have I mentioned this already?)

Excellent Movie

[johntomccarty · 8/10 · 24 September 2014]

I wasn't expecting this. A very interesting film from a director who knows his great directors and isn't afraid to wear them on his sleeve. I just say that Paul Emmanuel is a great writer and great director. He show emotional & chemistry between Jack and Maria. He also show past problem of them.

I am impressed to see this movie. My friend's and Me everybody enjoy this film. This story is an awesome creation of Paul Emmanuel. Dance of this movie is very good.This movies every artist have seemingly natural acting ability. This movies every location is beautiful and sound system is very good.

I hope everybody should see this movie to enjoy great happiness.This one surprised me. Much better than I expected.

In This Case Age Matters

[defiedxreality · 1/10 · 13 December 2019]

Okay to start positively the main character is eye candy but his personality ruins anything you could feel for him and his dead mother story and I don't even know why he visits his dad at all.

So we know they are going to get sexual and that was creepy, he told her he wanted her for his birthday, later he asks her to be his mom while groping her and being sexual towards her. Would he have done that to his mother? And I felt awful as she clearly tried to get him to back off, almost gives you that rape scene feeling.

(He does not ever force her but he doesn't mind blackmailing her and throwing her son's story in her face. She was open and honest with him and only wanted one thing for him to forgive his dad and let her believe he done things he promised to do)

The guy didn't even try to stay with her, he got a good bang and back to the states...only there was a surprise but not a good one.

AJAY SINGH JOHN

[tubalayoutlook · 10/10 · 6 March 2018]

I RELE LOVE THIS MOVIE I LOVED IT SO MUCH UP TO THE POINT WHERE I WATCHED IT AGAIN IT THE MOVIE CARRIES A ''MESSAGE AND MEANING'' RELE LOOKING FORWARD TO A PART 2 ?

BAD BAD Horrible worst ever

[hoomanfarahpour · 1/10 · 9 July 2017]

I never seen the movie this bad I mean it was horrible . Waist of money and the worst waist of my time. It was so bad that I had to come here and write this .How can someone make the movie like this and make it to the production point. It's unbelievable. It shows in this industry it has nothing to do with talent or good script I just wounder how this one made it . Horrible screen writing the actors couldn't even play the simple scene. These are not actors and actresses. I hope they have second job. I'm just wondering middle of all people no one come up to producer say this is bad don't do this. The sad part there are so many talented people out there that they never get a chance.

Boring and inept piece of cinematic trash

[emiliano999 · 1/10 · 23 May 2021]

Things go downhill since the first minute with this one.

Supposedly is the story about the romance between a youngster and a mature woman, right? Well, the troubles start when the guy playing that spoiled and rude american teenager looks like a thirty-something and the same age of the titular "maid", who doesn't even look like a working woman at all but a socialité in her autumn holiday.

Oh, and when this guy is stalking her, taking photos for his self-pleasure and looking not-so-young at all, well, that's so creepy. That woman could hire a good attorney to sue him and his father (who at least isn't taking very seriously this thing and doesn't even try to do an acceptable performance and only recite his lines out of conviction) and won a huge amount of money .

A girl suddenly appears only to flirt with the thirty-something-like who reminds that meme whit that image of Steve Buscemi playing a private detective on 30 Rock disguised as a youngster wearing a backward cap carrying a skateboard. And that girl kinda looks maybe more attractive than the "maid".

And that score, like the rejected music of a dull soap opera.

Is a mistery why there is so many people who gave this more than 2 or 3 stars, this bore-fest isn't even funny to watch. It's like fanfiction penned by a basement-dweller incel.

Horrible, HORRIBLE waste of time.

Awful

[hedwiq · 1/10 · 27 March 2021]

So bad. Possibly the worst I've seen and I've seen a lot. Regret not reading the reviews before watching; the average rating suggests that it should be watchable but it is not. The script is simply awful and ridiculous. Avoid!

Absolutely Disgusting

[officialopinionlogan · 1/10 · 17 November 2023]

I thought that MAYBE this movie was going to be a commentary on entitlement and abuse. But it is actually just a film rewarding an obnoxious, molesting, teenage sociopath with love from a gorgeous woman.

Jack, our freshly eighteen-year-old protagonist, is staying with his Father for a few days. Within two of these days, he falls in love with the older house maid. They share tragic stories with one another about him losing his Mother and she losing her son.

Jack decides to confess his love for this woman. When she initially rejects him because it's completely absurd, he manipulates her by saying she could replace his mom and he replace her son, so they could both share the affection they're missing. Except it's supposed to be romantic?? When she continues to reject him, he keeps guilting her for making him feel bad. So she pops her top off and let's him kiss her bare chest for a while.

She jumps up and cries and runs away. So, rather than leaving the country like a normal person, he confronts her and guilts her even more over her son, saying she's abandoning him like she did her kid. Then he threatens to off himself if she doesn't love him back.

So.... now she does love him. She was hiding her feelings. This is where I expected it to turn into a lesson about manipulative love and how she feels threatened by him.

No. She just loves him. And they continue to have an affair throughout the movie. And he knocks her up before actually leaving the country.

This movie took itself so seriously and tried really hard to be serious. But it is such a gross vision of romance that nobody should ever have to face.

Bad script, bad idea, bad casting.

Somewhat unrealistic plot with somewhat predictable plot.

[tomayoga · 8/10 · 31 July 2023]

I found this movie somewhat entertaining but it did have some holes in the plot. There are some domestics that are quite alluring but usually the very well paid ones generally. The other hole in the plot was that a fairly attractive teen woman went hard after the teen boy and he somehow found himself too obsessed with a so so looking older woman who did seem to make a connection with him and this created his lack of interest in the younger woman. If this situation happened to me as a young man I think I might have gone after both of the women! The sex scenes were somewhat frustrating because it seemed like for an inexperienced young man I would have imagined he would have been much more aggressive initially. Maybe I am just extrapolating from my early years of the dating scenario but most younger men tend to be much more aggressive the first few relationships. The least realistic part of the movie was the ending. Other wise the movie was pretty good.

Just damnnn

[futuristicisthebest · 10/10 · 25 November 2021]

The women in this film is everything wow best movie ever.

It's kinda relatable in a sense but not really just the fact that people my age dont get me lol.