Young Adam Reviews

Honestly, I thought it was a rather difficult movie to judge. Indeed, even though Ewan McGregor has gathered a respectable status as a movie star, from time to time, he still picks up some pretty challenging features and this movie was definitely one of those. Indeed, the whole thing was pretty bleak and depressing, with some rather explicit sex scenes (you even have some full frontal nudity by Mr McGregor himself if I’m not mistaken) so it was far from being a feel-good flick, that’s for sure. Still, there was something quite fascinating about the main character and Ewan McGregor delivered once again, one hell of a performance. To round up the cast, you had Tilda Swinton and Peter Mullan, two of the most underrated actors at work nowadays, and they were also really good in this. To be honest, I’m not really familiar with David Mackenzie’s work (I do have ‘Perfect Sense’ also starring McGregor on dvd so I’m definitely eager to expand my knowledge) but he is definitely an interesting director and I really appreciated the mood he managed to create. To conclude, even though I’m not sure if the story was actually great whatsoever, it still remain a really intriguing picture and it is definitely worth a look.

excellent. worth watching. good performance

Talk about slow. So, so slow. Not that, that made it a boring movie but towards the end of it I felt like it would never be over and that I'd not been watching it for just under 2 hours but that I'd been watching it for weeks. That and none of the characters stood out for me except Ewen McGregor's performance but mainly because as the movie went on I came to despise his character more and more. Other then that I didn't feel it was a strong peformace at all. It did have me intrigued enough to watch it to the end but my life would've been about the same if I hadn't of watched it.