Adults in the Room (2019) User Reviews

Probably the worst film I have ever seen

[psdeme · 1/10 · 7 October 2019]

Apart from the scenario, which I could very well understand it would be one-sided and radical populist before even seeing the film, I was deeply disappointed by the technical aspects of the film too. In most of the parts, it looked really cheap and of minimum artistic value.

Gavras can do better and he has proven it in the past.

This is not a movie about Greek crisis.....

[mgrigor · 1/10 · 18 October 2019]

Gavras movie is based on the book by ex minister Varoufakis who portraits himself as an idealist fighting for the good of the people. The movie is full of cliches and stereotypes lacking coherence. Christos Loulis is probably doing his best, but, he has not captured Varoufakis' character. It is a waste of 2 hours !

One star

[louisacalvin · 1/10 · 3 October 2019]

What was this?Loulis played well and that's it.The other cast is bad.Mr Gavra it was your worst movie.

Shame

[vassilis-55642 · 1/10 · 27 November 2019]

On behalf of all Greeks who left the country running away from the posh pseudo left wingers with illusions of grandeur starring this fake story - don't waste your own money to watch the memoirs of Yiannnis. 1/2 million paid for by these same guys (increasing Greek debt just a bit more) in advance was more than enough compensation for this piece of...work. Money well spent on self adulation.

Like daliannidis film.

[kostas-caraiskos · 1/10 · 14 October 2019]

It is not a realistic movie it is based on one person memories.

Yaroufakis v Rest Of The World

[gcarpiceci · 1/10 · 22 November 2019]

Adults In A Room is based on the homonymous book, which is an unapologetic, shameless self-celebration of Yanis Varoufakis; but that's fine, as the book is authored by Yanis Varoufakis, who's fully entitled to consider himself as a god put on earth. Never mind history proved him wrong on every level, we live in the era of wild populism where reality is what you want it to be. What is instead amazing is that a respectable director like Costa-Gavras lended himself to the operation of endorsing the delusional fantasies of the book by transposing them extremely loyally onto the screen. This is in essence the story of Yaroufakis v Rest Of The World, and the result is: Yaroufakis wins! Yaroufakis got it all right, the rest of the world got it all wrong; Yaroufakis is the only hero in the room, the rest of the world is a bunch of wimps, arrogant, incompetent idiots. The movie is bad even on a purely cinematic level: there is virtually no plot apart the sequences of meetings if the Euro-Group are utterly boring, there are some scenes which are farcical and kitsch, performances are amateurish, almost theatrical. All in all, I felt the movie was an insult to intelligence.

Fictional + bad film

[constantina-dellopoulou · 1/10 · 1 November 2019]

Neither the film nor the book are to the least relevant as to the greek political crisis. A consciously one-sided film, and a pretty bad one. As for the book it is the utter fiasco of the most arrogant and narcissist persona non grata ever. Gavras should have shown more respect for his home country over the dreadful position taken by the decisions of a group of incompetent politicians led by a completely undecided and disoriented prime minister. One should definitely be prepared before going to the theatre. I mean actually go through the "2015 political facts" and -try to- read the Varoufakis utopia/book

Poor acting based on a baseless script. Very disappointing

[gghines-933-873528 · 1/10 · 11 September 2019]

I was lucky to watch a sneak copy of the film and i must admit that in general it was way below my expectations. The book was much better. I gave one star because of some scenes. The adaptation was poor, the actors pathetic.

The story unfolds in very low and boring pace, without any suspense or drama feel. This is the style of Gavras, a typical school of so-called art cinema, where you usually leave during the interval. I did not as i was hoping till the last moment that the film would make a turn around.

Pure waste of time

1 star only for the actors!!!

[kfourtouni · 1/10 · 11 September 2019]

This movie is as bad as the book is. Probably its the worst film of Gavras so far. Spiros Loulis is an excellent actor and the 1star is only for him.

Really bad acting/plot

[psgalore · 1/10 · 7 September 2019]

Fictional representation of a great political tragedy dealt in an amateur way

Terrible acting, bad scenario based on a poor, one-sided script.

[bepnolte · 1/10 · 21 December 2019]

This is one of the worst movies of Mr. Gavras. In my opinion, this one along with "Le capital" are very bad movies.

"Adults in the Room" is based on a really poor script. The story is f course one sided, it is fictional rather than political (which is bad for the movie as it strives to be political), in several occasions the script becomes hilarious, while the acting could only be characterized as ridiculous.

The problem with Mr. Gavras is that in both this movie and the Capital, he is dealing with subjects and issues he is completely unaware of. Instead of asking for some help, even for the sake of making the point as he would like too, he believes he can present to the audience financial, macroeconomic, legal or international relations issues in a childish, non-scientific way, ending up making a poor movie.

Greece is now borrowing from the markets with interest rates lower than the US, unemployment is falling, banks are open, many of the taxes imposed during crisis, are gradually being cancelled. Greece was saved by the Europeans, not by charlatans, which makes this movie even more irrelevant to reality, no to say anything worse.

A possy

[tonythetuba · 1/10 · 2 October 2019]

Actors are better then the actual persons they depict so they are good in their job. How can you play the roles of Varoufakis and Tsipras without wearing orange wigs and big red noses?

A huge flop, as expected

[provocateur-43436 · 1/10 · 31 October 2019]

Both the script and the acting were terrible. It can be perfectly explained since the book was a laughing stock as well.

Disaster...

[xastas · 1/10 · 28 March 2020]

This is not a movie. This is not a documentary. This whole thing I just watched is worst than even the Greek economy. Terrible casting (except Varoufakis role), awful direction, non sense music, bad photography, bad editing. What a pity for Gavras...

Waste of time

[stylianmos · 1/10 · 22 March 2020]

Wasted my time watching this political documentary. Gavras will be remembered as a below average director. You have absolutely no idea if this story plays in a week a month or a year and that is bad directing. The cast is more like a cheap circus trying to act, except one or two. Worst movie I've seen in a long time.