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Watch: Louder Than Bombs 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – An upcoming exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death, brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family house – forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years. With the three of them under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently..
Plot: Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene’s older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in – and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 13,460
	72% | RottenTomatoes
	70/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 265 Popularity: 8.697 | TMDB

Reviews:

Heavy-duty and complex family drama delivers the goods
“Louder Than Bombs” (2015 release from Norway/France; 109 min.) brings the story of the Reed family. As the movie opens, we see Jonah Red (played by Jesse Eisenberg) in the hospital with his wife and their newborn baby. After the movie’s opening credits, we then shift to Isabelle Reed (played by Isabelle Huppert), a NYT was photographer who perished a few years ago and is now the subject of a retrospective. The NYT reporter who worked with her is going to write a long piece on it, and gives a heads up to widower Gene Reed (played by Gabriel Byrne). Finally, we also get to know Conrad Reed, the younger brother of Jonah. Conrad is struggling in high school, and also at home. At this point we’re about 15 minutes into the movie but to tell you more of the plot would spoil your viewing experience, you’ll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.

Couple of comments: this is the latest movie from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier, whose previous movie, 2011’s “Oslo, August 31st” was outstanding. This is his first English language movie, and here Trier dives into a complex family drama. It took me a while to figure out who was who, and what exactly is going on. Perhaps the emotional linchpin of the movie is young Conrad (played by newcomer–for me anyway Devin Druid), who’s sulking character at first is not very likable, but as more and more peels of the onion are removed, the Conrad character is developed deeper and fuller. When older brother Jonah urges Conrad to “sit out” the high school years, Conrad nods but of course does the exact opposite… The movie structure for “Louder Than Bombs” is further complicated because of the multiple flashbacks involving Isabelle. And how exactly did she die anyway? This movie reminded me at times of the Robert Redford-directed family drama “Ordinary People” from 1980. In other words: heavy duty stuff. I don’t know whether Eisenberg has played a better role in his still relatively young career. He is vulnerable as the older brother and the husband, trying to deal with a lot of things coming at him in life. Also keep your eyes out for a fairly small role from up-and-coming Rachel Brosnahan as Jonah’s ex-girlfriend Erin. People sometimes make good choices, sometimes bad choices, “but you can’t plan for what happens after you’ve made a choice”, cautions the NYT journalist at one point. There is a lot of good music in the film, both as to the original score composed by Ola Fløttum (unknown to me), and as to other incidental music (including Tangerine Dream’s “Love On a Real Train” in a newly re-recorded and extended version).

The theater’s Sunday matinée screening where I saw this at this past weekend turned out to be a private screening, as in: I literally was the only person in the theater. That is a darn shame. I recognize that this type of film isn’t going to attract big crowds, but not even a small crowd? Jeez… Maybe this movie will find a larger audience on VOD or when it is eventually released on DVD/Blu-ray. Regardless, if you are in the movie for a heavy duty family drama that features some great performances, you cannot go wrong with this. “Louder Than Bombs” is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

One of the very rare occasions I disliked a movie so much that I refused to watch til the end.
There are some that say you cannot review a film unless you have watched it throughout. The main reason given is that you can’t judge a film on just one part of it’s journey, but you must judge it on it’s whole, which includes where it ended up. I disagree with that. Very strongly.

A film is a visual story, and a story has to have elements that make sense. It does not have to be linear, it can jump around time and it can mix events up, but what it must do is engage you. Even when you don’t fully understand what is going on, it must engage you. My opinion is that if you watch 20 minutes of a movie and it has not engaged you within that time, it does not matter where it ends, or how it ends, or what it’s message is: it has failed as a story because it was not able to engage you to the point you wanted to continue to watch.

That’s how I feel about Louder Than Bombs. We begin by finding out about a photographer who killed herself, perhaps as a consequence of her experiences during conflict. But in the first 20 minutes of the movie, that’s all we learned. There was nothing more except confusion, disjointed scenes that never made a whole and no guesses could patch a story together that might explain random actions such as the son throwing himself on a complete strangers grave.

The lack of explanation, the lack of cohesion and continuance, the lack of flow of the story and the total lack of engagement says to me that the film maker wanted to make the scenes for his own benefit, and not to tell a story that others could enjoy. The purpose of stories is to entertain others, and too many film makers don’t do that. They are trying too hard to make people think that their movie is ‘arty’ in some way, or profound in it’s wisdom, when the truth is they are self absorbed fantasies which hold little interest for most people. Why should I indulge someone for a full 20 minutes if they won’t indulge me?

The story as far as I watched it was confusing, irrational, disjointed, unintelligible, unengaging and even irritating. By the time I got to the girls’ monologue at about the 18 minute mark I got incredibly frustrated and annoyed at her awful reading voice stumbling over simple words, the nonsensical words she read for almost a full 5 minutes, and the completely irrational and unexplained thoughts that Conrad was having during that reading. It was at that point that I decided that I would not watch the movie in it’s entirety. If I did, and even if I enjoyed the ending, not only did I not enjoy the whole journey but it irritated and angered me to the point that I resent being made to feel that way in order to be given a meaty treat at the end.

There should be a range of emotions brought out from a good story but they should stem from the story, they should not include anger, boredom and consternation at the storyteller.

So, Louder Than Bombs, highly considered by some to be profound, to me is a very badly scripted movie that does not competently tell a story and distances the viewer to the point the story becomes irrelevant. I’d give it no stars, 0 out of 10 if I could but the lowest IMDb allows is 1. Absolute rubbish film making and story telling and a waste of the 20 minutes I spent on it.

It’s telling that from an $11,000,000 budget it made only $160,000.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 49 min (109 min)
Budget 11000000
Revenue 1428004
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Joachim Trier
Writer Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert
Country Norway, France, Denmark, United States
Awards 12 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses, Arricam ST, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses, Arriflex 435, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses, Phantom Flex4K, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm, DCP