The Other Me (2022) User Reviews

It COULD be a good movie

[niltaherian · 5/10 · 13 June 2022]

I really enjoyed the surreal energy of the movie. I liked the colors in it it just felt like you are watching a dream. However this movie tries to tell lots of things such as betrayal, true love, childhood trauma, looking deep in to the life but you can't connect all of these things together and in result you can't connect to the movie and the characters. Everything just feels overwhelmed.

Even subplots don't add anything to the main plot and make you wondering "okay so what was that?" I feel it would be better if the writer and director would have sticked to one or two subjects in the movie.

Lovely Performance TERRIBLE movie

[audioengineer2008 · 4/10 · 4 January 2023]

Jim Sturgess gives a fantastic performance in this film made by a writer director with no real interest in making a movie. There are no stakes as Jim's character is an "architect" with only vague concept drawing of designs that will "change the world" taped to his wall.

The real issue with this film is that none of the post production departments were paid for their labor. The production used the 2020 lockdown as a paper thin excuse not to pay anyone. I was the sound designer / re-recording mixer and this production owes me over $20,000.00.

These filmmakers have abhorrent business practices. They only care about calling themselves filmmakers.

4 stars because the movie sounded good.

interesting, but...

[isaacmizrahii · 5/10 · 15 January 2023]

Probably for the wrong reasons...like the comment made by the supposed sound engineer of this movie in this comments section. But they're right...it DID sound good. Another reason their comment is interesting is that i can believe a lot of what was said in their commentary...like that the director/writer of the film wasn't really interested in making a movie...but just wanted to be seen(haha) as a film maker...because it was a movie with some ideas, none of them fleshed out in any satisfactory way to me...like a child's drawing. Stick figures. What i DON'T believe is the amount of money this person, the supposed sound engineer, says they're owed...20 million? PLEASE! That's how much SOME A list actors make.

The OTHER things i don't believe are the 10 ratings. I would bet 20 million that they're associated with the movie, or people who MADE the movie, in some way. Their comments are lies. EACH of them were first time reviewers.

It was BAREly interesting enough to make me watch it till the end... i guess i did in hopes that SOMEthing would be enlightening. Didn't happen for me...some parts connected, but it's nowhere as profound as it pretends to be.

Wannabe Intellectual

[jlorianyoung · 2/10 · 19 February 2023]

Frankly, I hated it.

I kept watching to see if somehow the dots would connect. I rewound trying to force them to connect; collected clues that led nowhere.

Unfortunately, the dots didn't connect to anything at all; the balloon dream was a moment of interesting visual but just another dead end. Not a single character redeemed the film. At best they were all unlikable; even the doctor who delivered the diagnosis.

It felt as though I was trapped in a modern art museum with a bunch of people looking at a blue square and pontificating a meaning. There was none to be found...just sad, random dots and an hour and forty minutes that I can't get back. My advise, skip this movie. Anything you spend the time doing will be an improvement.

Not THAT bad

[averyav · 4/10 · 14 July 2023]

Although the movie is ambiguous, it is not as horrendous as some comments make it seem. Many parts of the storyline are flawed and cannot be explained, even when everything is cleared up in the end. For instance, if the woman and the man are the same person, how could she have purchased a house in the forest when he owes a bunch of money? If they're a figment of his imagination, how come his friend was able to not only find the house, but also even meet the dog? Also, if they were to be portrayed as one, they could look more alike. The unpredictable ending was not as unpredictable as the producers would have hoped. I kid you not, the moment the man "fell" for the mysterious woman in the woods, I instantly knew she was either imaginary or in some twisted way, him, as the title of the movie suggests. Overall, it isn't exactly a waste of time, but there are various obvious plot holes due to the excessive amount of topics that were addressed throughout the film; instead of making everything unrealistically imaginary, they could have related it to something similar to parallel universes.

A ludicrous waste of time

[justahunch-70549 · 1/10 · 14 June 2023]

Just the other day I made a comment here in a review for another film about how so much streaming has given us the opportunity to see unknown gems or films of interest that we never heard of or had the interest or opportunity to see in a theater. This is an example of the opposite providing us with a window to films that most would never want to see. I've no idea how to really review a film that is incomprehensible to me. I know some of the events I saw such as the beginning in which a man is told that he is going blind, his marriage is on the rocks and he meets a "mysterious" woman living in the forest that he seemingly falls for just about instantly. Very little after these facts make any sense to me. I first saw the lead actor here, Jim Sturgess, in the wonderful Across the Universe in 2007 in which he was both excellent as an actor and a singer and I predicted a big future. Despite working a lot, I'm not sure if he has ever been in a really good film since then, though that does not mean he is a bad actor and he even isn't bad here, though the character is absurd. The other two principals are Andreja Pejic as the woman in the woods and Antonia Campbell-Hughes as the unwanted wife. Pejic, at least here, cannot act and Campbell-Hughes is presented in such a dreary fashion it's hard to muster any interest in her. The writing here is a complete mess and this is an awful film.

Not a cartoon, crappy horror, superhero, or Disney film - The Other Me

[arthur_tafero · 4/10 · 19 October 2022]

In 2022, the year of the worst films ever made in Hollywood history, any film that is not a cartoon, crappy horror, superhero, or a Disney film, automatically gets at least a four star rating or higher (unless it is an utter piece of garbage). This film, The Other Me, is a case of the third eye, or the eye of the mind as some would explain it. I am not a big fan of psychodramas, but this one is almost passable because the plot is not 100% predictable, like well over 90% of the films of 2022. Our protagonist is a person gifted (cursed?) with the ability to read minds and motives of people instead of just seeing them. This comes in handy for Texas Holdem. He should have played a few weeks in Vegas and made a few mil.

Another worst film! Too slow, and too confusing! Bored to freaking death!

[kwenchow · 1/10 · 9 March 2022]

This film start with a woman telling her husband to slow down the car, and a doctor checking the husband's eyes scene! As turnout, this film is about a series of imagination of a blind painter in the purgatory! Entire film full of boring conversation, and annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the walking scene, overuse of the searching scene, overuse of the talking on the phone scene, overuse of the arguing scene, overuse of the staring scene, overuse of the kissing scene, overuse of the drawing scene, overuse of the eating scene, overuse of the driving scene, overuse of the flashbacks scene, overuse of the singing scene, overuse of the blackout scene, and overuse of the waking up scene! Make the film unwatchable! At the end, we found out this film just a series of imagination of the main character! That's it! Wasting time to watch!

We are limited by what we see.

[jelenagradimir · 10/10 · 6 March 2022]

This dreamy-like movie isn't perfect, but life isn't either. I love the non-linear approach of the theme, how it drives you beyond senses we usually perceive to the highs of truth and oneness.

The movie gets there. We are limited by what we see. We need to feel, to suffer, to elevate.

Carefully written stories like this broaden our perspectives to respect each other more. To allow ourselves to be who we are. To allow ourselves to get there.

By releasing the traumas and burdens of any kind, we become lighter. We are ready to see ourselves. To see the other side.

Reasons to love this film

[lisanutsubidze · 10/10 · 20 February 2022]

The way I see this movie is quite straightforward - it makes you think. It pushes you to delve deep down your soul and find answers to something you see but can not perceive easily. The manner of direction is splendid - it's warm and cozy, with a touch of dreamy effect that makes you all enchanted until you see the final cut of the scene. It's lucid that people are tired nowadays. Most of them don't enjoy witnessing something that remains oblivious. They'd rather sit down with a sandwich and watch kitsch, or a crime story or a fervent romance that usually doesn't occur in life. What does transpire is the verity that we are born with a man and a woman living inside us. They navigate our life, they switch the driver's seat as required - they go hand in hand. It's just some people refuse to see it, some deny it. Some even don't realize it. But I believe that's one of the most important ideas of the film - to signify (in an artsy way) that the moment we acknowledge the aforementioned, the moment we accept it, only then we become complete.