The Company You Keep Reviews

I like the senior's part, not the young journalist research (even Shia LaBeouf is ok). The image of eternal backpackers hippie Julie Christie and Bob Redford running through the wilderness is nostalgic. Susan Sarandon puts the dramatic note.

Even though it has been at least 15 years since Robert Redford had either a critical or financial success as a director, I still keep watching his movies and I was really eager to check his latest effort. I mean, just check the cast (Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Elliott), that's a lot of Oscar nominees and winners. Eventually, to have this star-studded cast was also a distraction since most of them just popped up for a couple of scenes and, as a result, their characters were reduced to some stereotypes. Furthermore, the plot didn't work very well. I mean, we are supposed to believe that all those (very) old political activists have become some very skilled spies with the same abilities to disappear like good old Jason Bourne. I mean, everything goes so fast, you don't really have the time to check the details but not all of it made sense or was really believable. Still, somehow, I enjoyed the damned thing. Indeed, Robert Redford is still mighty charismatic like hell (even though at around 75 years old, he shouldn't try to run around like Jason Statham) and I liked the idea of reflecting back to the 70's when there was some kind of revolution going on and to think about where do we stand after all these years. To conclude, it is a really flawed picture but I still enjoyed it and I think it is worth a look.