mercilessdeath

What should have been a small nod to 60's Turkey is forced into a feature film. There are so many plot holes in the script you could use it as a skimmer and find not gold but mud. Cem Yilmaz does not need money, he should concentrate on better scripts. Not worth your time.

The film was mediocre at best. Not very funny, not too cringy, just your average "let's just make a quick buck out of this popular book" movie.

However my main objection would be concerning realism. Another reviewer mentioned "the beard". In Turkish high schools you cut that beard. End of story. Additionally, there is absolutely NOT a single publisher in Turkey that works like that. Zilch. Nada. I work in this field and I guarantee you it was the fantasy of someone who has never been inside a publishing house.

I have seen my share of bad films and I mean really bad films. I even once watched an entire Paris Hilton film. It was aggravatingly horrendous.

To call The Loneliest Planet horrendous would be praise.

It felt like the director had taken an excellent 10 minute short film, added 110 minutes of tediousness. The eroticism was unnecessary, the long shots were unnecessary, and the message it tried to give to the audience was overdone. The cuts the director used were simply bad, the use of music (and sudden stops)was painful.

This movie tried so hard to say something but couldn't. It was like watching a deaf mute give a concert... For two hours!