Rent Good Time (2017)

Disaster time - Good Time review by Alphaville

An in-yer-face tour-de-force of extreme hand-held close-ups that soon becomes too wearing to watch. The plot concerns two brothers, one of them mentally handicapped, who botch a bank robbery. You don’t want to spend time with such despicable characters. The dialogue is atrocious. The direction is amateurish. Pitched as a thriller, it’s anything but. Much of it is a visual mess. It plays like an experimental film by a student who needs more mentoring.

Robert Pattinson is a charismatic actor who makes some interesting film choices, but even he can’t hold this one together.

Terrible - Good Time review by CP Customer

I don't recall ordering this, it was terrible. The plot, the acting, the sound quality. A real waste of time.

I saw this for free at a critic's screening and still hated it - Good Time review by Christopher Chiu-Tabet

An excruciatingly long indie thriller directed by Ben and Josh Safdie that’s somehow just 100 minutes long, Good Time is shot without a steadicam, largely told within a claustrophobic and grainy series of close-ups and mid close-ups. It adds to an increasing sense of irritation and tedium, compounded by a janky, loud electronic score that contributes to a feeling of nausea, as do the lack of witty lines (instead we’re subjected to a never-ending series of f-bombs). Ben Safdie is pretty good pretending to be the protagonist's disabled brother, properly conveying the physical heft and emotional vulnerability many of us have: it’s just a shame that he didn’t focus on the screenwriting and sound editing instead.

Full review here: https://medium.com/@nerdypoc/good-time-robert-pattinsons-new-film-is-actually-a-terrible-time-8b1699a7dd27

Ironic Title - Good Time review by DH

Far from a Good Time to be had watching this B movie mess. I didn't even have this on my list, CP very kindly sent it to me, perhaps they thought the disc was getting a bit lonely. Either way I certainly didn't list it, and watching it proved my judgement correct.

Good Times - Good Time review by CP Customer

Noisy, shaggy-dog story. Unfulfilling and with leaps forward and back in the telling. Give it a miss.