Synopsis
While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.
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Cast
- Shia LaBeoufCharlie Countryman
- Evan Rachel WoodGabi Ibanescu
- Mads MikkelsenNigel
- Til SchweigerDarko
- Rupert GrintCarl
- James BuckleyLuc
- Ion CaramitruVictor Ibanescu
- Vincent D'OnofrioBill
- Melissa LeoKate
- Andrei FintiBela
Recommandations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Fredrik Bond makes a promising feature debut with this fanciful crime-drama romance that gratifyingly eschews strict genre classification. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The bad guys really stand out, with Mikkelsen pulling off something he never managed as a Bond villain. He’s genuinely frightening. - 42
The A.V. Club
In a film this hapless, it’s hardly a surprise that no one can keep Bucharest and Budapest straight. - 40
Time Out
It’s an engrossing, overstuffed disaster—sometimes captivating, sometimes too ingeniously terrible to turn away from; it’s like watching a car wreck in slow motion, if both cars were stuffed with confetti. - 38
Slant Magazine
An egregious entry into the pantheon of films about white Americans traveling to exotic lands in search of identity and soul-searching adventure. - 33
The Playlist
Charlie Countryman opens up with an interesting first section, but only backslides deeper and deeper in its overwrought and incoherent second and third acts. - 30
Village Voice
LaBeouf and Wood don't clang, but they don't quite click, either. That's not enough for the film to persuade us of its message, that love is worth any sacrifice. - 10
Variety
Fredrik Bond’s direction and Matt Drake’s screenplay deliver a charisma-free trip into a world of gratuitous violence, contrivances and tedium.
