I don't know what others think and I don't wanna understand how or why this movie is so underrated and not very known.This is absolutely the kind of movies that won't let you the same person you were before watching it.I can't precise what this movie did to me but it surely left something.Something new.Something astonishing and violently beautiful . It's not about a classical love story nor a selection of traditional action scenes.This is an artistic emotional masterpiece.You will feel its emotional roller-coaster ,you will feel a strange but a magical wave of life.I don't wanna spoil the end for you but you'll adore it.

The story is basically the age old heroism tale of doing anything for love and at the same time unknowingly becoming a hero out of it. But what I really like from this movie is how it builds up the story and the conflicts within it. Inserting a fantasy dose, spreading comedic parts here and there, and also adding a touch of crime elements to the main theme rends this movie potential to over-stretching due to over-abundance of under developed story potentials. But it nicely keeps the focus to be the romantic side, emphasizing more screen time on the Charlie and Gabi relationship. Starting the movie with the apparent final ending, this movie kind of cheats the expectations that title built. The acting department is a well done overall. Shia Labeouf did very well in making his expressions. Evan Rachel Wood did adequate enough to give the story balance in Gabi. Rupert Grint and James Buckley did nice in keeping the comedy on. Having Aubrey Plaza, Melissa Leo and Vincent D'Onofrio adds up very nice to the sideline touches.

It's a comedy with a clear theme which is about love and romance, though the content is not very concrete, but if you can view it in a way which is kind of like surrealism, you'll find it totally worthwhile to watch. Actually, we are all like Charlie, when something bad happens, we try to escape from it, sometimes we buy drinks to numb our brains, sometimes we run away from the life that we are familiar with, we travel abroad, far, far away to experience a different world and life-style. I think people do that mostly because when we travel abroad we can find that compare to the rest of the world, how small individuals,as we are, in the whole wild world are. And when we meet new people from different culture with different stories, we find that none of our problem and sorrow is alone in the world, we can somehow relate to other people. Anyway, it's a good film made in a artistic style, abstract in content but brilliantly delivered its message about the theme, lost and love. Plus, with LaBeouf and Mikkelsen in the film, why not?

... that this film was made in the late sixties,starring Woody Allen as a nebbish doofus who mistakenly gets on a plane for Bucharest - what fun it would be watching him try to do a Dizzy Gillespie face when challenged by Nigel. And imagine this film with a local villain guy who isn't called NIGEL - that makes sense. Every time I hear the name I keep anticipating some English escapee (Molesworth perhaps?)from a boarding school. No disrespect Mads but couldn't you have made them change his name?Alternatively imagine the fun if this had been made in French in the seventies with some spaced out French actors and Eddie Constantine playing the heavy - Godardian, hey!Okay, now let's look at the hand we were dealt. The director knows how to film action and he sure keeps the pace up. The Romanian actors are fun. The script has a lovely poetic surreal sensibility (but doesn't need the set up at the beginning - we can sense Charlie is a nutcase right from the off). Bucharest looks fabulously grungy and the local musos are extraordinary - I wanted more of them. The relationship between Gabi and Nigel has been based on romantic assumptions (his) that her playing has saved his life - I can understand why he clings to her regardless of her wishes so let's enjoy more of their backstory meaning more of Mads of course.What I can't understand is why, having managed to escape Nigel's lethal clutches, Gabi wants to fall into the arms of Shia the unwashed even if he is magically the ONE. He's not funny, nor is he charming, nor is he magical in any sense. Bad casting that one. So I don't buy it although I enjoyed the ride.