I love watching movies with subtitles, and I'm very comfortable with profanity and with bizarre, absurd behavior. What I couldn't take about this movie was the terrible old-man makeup globbed like plaster on an actor who was obviously no older than about 50, and a robust, athletic 50 at that. Because of the stupid-looking, distracting makeup on a burly, middle-aged actor who could climb out windows and run, I could not for a second believe that that character was a real human being.
If a movie is centered on an unbelievable character it just doesn't work for me. What the character DOES can be completely absurd, but who that character IS just has to seem real for a movie to work. A movie titled The 100-Year-Old Man cannot work unless it's possible to believe that the man is 100 years old.
If a movie is centered on an unbelievable character it just doesn't work for me. What the character DOES can be completely absurd, but who that character IS just has to seem real for a movie to work. A movie titled The 100-Year-Old Man cannot work unless it's possible to believe that the man is 100 years old.