Robert Pattinson’s ‘Cosmopolis’ Reviews Are In: What the Critics are Saying

So the still question remains: can ‘Cosmopolis’ — adapted from Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel — draw ticket sales from Pattinson’s die-hard ‘Twilight’ fans? So far, reviews of Cosmopolis — and Pattinson — are mixed. While Gawker finds the film “hypnotic,” the Associated Press‘ no-holds-barred review deems it “lifeless [and] stagey.” As for Pattinson, the Huffington Post claims the “dull actor” is “reduced to a piece of furniture,” while The Daily Beast applauds his “impressively self-assured performance.”

Film Journal: “The claustrophobia of it all actually works to Cronenberg’s advantage, highlighting the knife-like performances and emphasizing the surprisingly effective notes of deadpan comedy. Cosmpolis loses some of its energy later when the action departs more from the tightened actors’ studio of the limo. But Cronenberg still maintains his tone of ironic prophecy, showing a world being spun towards chaos by a furiously accelerating present.”==== LA Weekly: “Cronenberg, the great auteur of the divided self, seems to run out of fuel after that, even as the story’s structure gives him further opportunity to explore his pet themes. To the extent that Cosmopolis functions as a super-literal conceptual exercise, it’s simultaneously irritating and fascinating. But much of the film fails to function as drama, and never more so than in the interminable final scene, a two-hander in which Packer finally confronts his would-be assassin in what could be rooms of his own mind.”=== Huffington Post: “…Whenever he strays outside the Twilight compound, Pattinson is a dull actor who projects no interior life or even the semblance of thought…. In the company of actual actors, Pattinson is reduced to a piece of furniture, most of which displays more expressiveness than the immortal R-Patz. As one would expect from Cronenberg, there are sudden moments of shocking violence to go with the moments of unsexy sex. None of it will distract you from the fact that this limo, like the whole enterprise titled Cosmopolis, is going nowhere.”=== Gawker: “Cosmopolis doesn’t want to incense you—it wants to chill your blood…. But with Cosmopolis, Pattinson portrays a different kind of vampire, an inhuman monster who lives off others’ hard work and has to barricade himself away from the masses… so Pattinson falls into a fine tradition of Hollywood celebrities screwing with their fans’ heads…. The characters in Cosmopolis aren’t user-friendly and aren’t meant to be. But once you get into the film’s peculiar rhythms, Cosmopolis becomes hypnotic — a surreal, hyper-aware updating of our modern anxieties about the dehumanization brought on by wealth, power and technology.” === Source: celebuzz