Immigrant

I agree with everything the first reviewer said about this film. I hope that the filmmaker found it to be a therapeutic process because otherwise, it's a very amateurish poorly crafted film. It's OK that the entire film is depressing, but none of the elements (cinematography, music, editing, acting, directing) made it interesting, so it's dark and boring. Even the titles looked cheap. The use of black and white footage was a colossal mistake. Another reviewer said it was "like scene changes in a play while the set is being switched." Paul Sorvino and Andrew Divoff were good, but even so, their performances couldn't save this sinking ship. The fighting amongst the classroom children looked incredibly fake. The director should cut out all of the black and white footage, shoot some great looking exterior shots, put in some music that actually contributes to the story, re-edit the film, ADR a lot of the dialog and then he'd have a better product, otherwise, if I HAD to see this, I'd rather just see a version of it as a play because that's what it felt like. The director kept switching from one interior to another without even using establishing shots.

It's a shame that the IMDb rating board has become a facebook-like forum for childish people to vent their feelings toward either the filmmaker, an actor or maybe a boom-boy.

Would one think for one second Paul Sorvino would be in a film that deserves one-star because it's amateurish? Come on really?

The movie is very dour, but it seems the filmmakers experience was so. What I didn't really understand were the flashbacks of old NY City from maybe the 1940's and 50's. I don't see how it related to the story.

The acting, and story is quite good as is the cinematography. Samuel Dixon the boy that played Daanyik did an excellent job. You could feel the rage through the screen. In fact many of us growing up got bullied at one time or another (unless you were the bully) and he did all the things we imagined we wanted to do to those bullies, but thankfully never did.

Angela Gots gives a very nice performance as the stubborn Meela. She is not shrill nor annoying. I'm assuming some reviewers have a personal issue with her perhaps. She played the part as it should have been, somewhat domineering and hard-headed to get her way.

I find this a very well-done film with a VERY important story to tell. My hats off to all involved. It was well-done. It was definitely not the CGI dull-witted Hollywood movies I normally fall asleep through.

Again, I'm not deconstructing every angle and scene. I'm simply reviewing as a movie- lover and I felt this was a good movie well- worth watching.

Never seen such a joke of a film, at first I thought it was a parody. It reminded me of "The Room", it is up there with the worst films ever to be made. The script seemed like a 9 year old wrote it, the acting was even worse, and the cinematography, it looked like it was being filmed on an iPhone.