The Palace

I've been looking forward to this film for a long time and I haven't been disappointed. I was a bit irritated by the bad citics, but after watching the film, I realized that it was a Hollwood smear campaign against Polanski and his film. Non political correctness, non compromises. Typical Polanski style. This is not Hollywood trash, its serious Cineme. If you don´t like it, go watch "Barbie", "Everything Everywhere All at Once" or another Hollywood trash.

I read a few of the bad Reviews. I don't understand why it's hard to rate this movie, or why the movie is politically hard to defend? Is it because of Putins New Year's address? LOL

This is a damn fine comedy/Satire and it deserves at least one Oscar Nominee. Unfortunately, Hollywood these days is all about politics.

Normally, I would give the movie 8 stars, but because of the hate, i give it 9 Stars. Hopefully it wasn't Polanski's last film. He should get an Oscar for his life's work, but it's not going to happen. Hollywood, take your political correctness and go to Hell.

I recommend the film to all those who are still interested in real Cinema.

Decent comedy, not the best Polanski however he has never produced anything less than brilliant.

Star studded, Masterfull pastiche and grotesque on our times.

Untrue reviews you see, are just sad result of our cancel culture times, they really wanted to punish this genius of a director for his mistake in the past , if you carefully study what has happened, " the haunting of Polanski" has become one of the biggest hypocrisy of our times.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the movie and laughed hard, awesome cinematography and richness of characters take your breath away.

Try and watch it before the destroyers of freedom ban it. It is already not available on major platforms.what they are doing to this movie and Roman Polanski is absolutely shamefull.

Do not believe punishing ratings, its a very enjoyable movie.

Realizing that he himself would soon go into oblivion, he probably said his last word to this rotten and two-faced world, in which not a hint of decency and principles remained.

Almost all the characters and their actions are clear who they represent in the real world, although in some places there is a little fog. Quite a funny, superficial grotesque look at what has happened to the world in the last 30 years.

But Polanski's characteristic subtle style is weakly visible here; rather, this is the work of two other Polish screenwriters, as the main "traction" horses; he was on this list rather as a consultant and architect of the general line; he most likely has not had the strength to create everything himself for a long time . Everything is too rough, especially the ending. It does not shock at all, but rather saddens, recalling Polanski's old works.

The subtle, complex acting and skirmishes that you expect from Polanski's films are practically absent here.

Is it worth watching? Against the backdrop of that endless wave of sludge and bad taste, Hollywood certainly, perhaps his last venture in his life, deserves it. The trouble is that he does not present deep thoughts, everything is too superficial. For the sophisticated public, everything quickly becomes boring, but for the inexperienced it is rather pointless.

The sophisticated public on the planet understands perfectly well what the remnants of the former civilization are moving towards quite quickly, but the unsophisticated public is more and more busy with animal survival and has no time for self-reflection and assessment of the situation in the world.

It is clear that this creation will certainly be hated in the USA (and this is mutual from Polanski personally) and quite strongly in Europe. That is why the rating is intentionally low and there are no large number of ratings. The majority of the population has neither critical thinking nor the self-sufficiency of outlook to independently shape their destiny and evaluate what is really happening around them - they are shaped by it, skillfully forcing them to follow the indicated track leading straight to the abyss, like horses rushing in blinkers...

I thought that the movie was building up to something good, a lot of characters with different stories and I keep wondering if it was supposed to be funny because nothing made me laugh.

It kept on building nonsense, but I kept hoping for the punch line. You know, Blake Edwards style when all of the sudden everything gets tied up into a slapstick hilarious mess.

More than an hour into the movie I realized that, this was as good as it gets. Not a comedy, not drama... nothing!. But I watched it until the end just curious to know how they would fill the plot holes, and the movie ends just full of plot holes.

A dog fu**** a pinguin on the back... The End.

A riff on Knife in the water ... though do not compare those two! So no pun intended as always. Polanski has not lost his touch. Whatever one may think of him personally (I won't go into his legal issues, you either know about them, can look for them and/or do not care) ... he is a really good director! The cast he assembled speaks for itself.

The comedy is something you have to like, but the Hotel Manager is absolutely fantastic! Then you have John Cleese who is able to perform ... in many ways! Even without text ... as his comedy tour says (title): watch me before I die - I am paraphrasing here ... but you get the point.

That said, there is a lot of mayhem going on ... and it all has the absolute highlight at the end ... cgi "joke" ... but that should not matter ... had a few laugh out loud moments myself ... you can have quite a lot of fun with it.