Somewhere is after The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation the third movie I saw from director Sofia Coppola. It was a success like those movies before it. Somewhere is not good because of the story, but because of the characters and their actors.We get to know the characters by little clues. It is a less is more movie, and I like those kind of movies. The protagonist, played by Stephen Dorff. I knew him especially from Blade. He played very good I liked him in this movie. Elle Fanning played maybe even better. She acted very naturally. Like I said before, I liked those kind of movies. The structure of the movie is very slow, but the movie has compelling characters and is beautifully shot. The soundtrack was pretty awesome too. Julian Casablancas' song was a highlight of the movie. It fitted perfectly in the movie. Well done.

This movie is akin to watching paint dry. We kept waiting for something, anything to happen! LA did look very nice but that wasn't enough to carry this sad, hopeless film. The ending was totally nonsensical and made me mad that I just wasted 90 minutes of my life. Would have been infinitely better had it ended with him picking up his daughter from camp and making a life with her. But I guess no one wanted this loving, beautiful young girl! Instead we get the lead character leaving his car by the side of the road and walking off into the desert. Ridiculous way to end a movie. This could have been a good movie but instead it just sucked!

Can't really say anything positive about this boring film. The opening scene of a black car going round in circles about five or six times pretty much sums up the rest of the film, repetitive boredom: the camera is stationary and the car zooms by, in and out of scene just a few times too many and without any real purpose other than to waste some time. Too many loose ends and excruciatingly long scenes that serve no purpose other than to pad out the film and the boredom. It takes a while to work out that this guy is some famous actor, though with a pretty meaningless life, and a hopeless father. Quite a few red herrings of suspense that are never followed through or explained, like the anonymous SMS's and his apprehension of being followed, build up an expectation that something or someone from his past is going to catch up with him, but alas, it's just more empty padding, in an empty movie. You can have more entertainment watching grass grow, I know I've said that before, but it's very true for this movie.

There'd been a lot of poor reviews for this movie on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't consider this a movie, it's a film, and quite frankly one of the truest depiction of what it really is like, if you stay in the industry in this town too long.This will speak to people who've had a small sense of success within celebrity and working in Hollywood (I would say, after at least a decade). I think the ones who don't "get it" are on the outside looking in. Asking themselves why they should care about some rich, bored famous actor. This may be news to you, but they ask themselves that more than you do. In fact, a lot has to do with "what now?" You wonder why Philip Seymour Hoffman went off the wagon. You wonder how fame can corrupt. It's because normalcy isn't the same for celebrity. Normalcy is upping the anty sometimes. He finds NO joy in owning a Ferrari. None in watching hot twins gyrate on a pole for him. ZERO in his neighbors who happen to be models. And a dullness in a trip to Rome. Witness the bland, confused look when he accepts an award, he doesn't even know what it's for.Yes, do not feel sorry for this. But, it's an amazing achievement when you can hold a mirror to this pathos and still allow viewers to paint whatever picture you have of him.That trip out to the rolling hills. I've been there. I take frequent trips to Newhall. To get out of this town. To realize anonymity and solitude is what gives you peace within yourself. The trappings don't mean much if you don't care what your purpose in life is.