
When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. But when he meets a fellow passenger, Charlie finds himself with another promise to fulfil. Charlie does so - and falls head over heels in love with Gabi, a beautiful musician. However, a vicious gangster has already laid claim to Gabi, and has no intention of letting her go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into the hallucinatory, Romani... (Full plot summary below)
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When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. But when he meets a fellow passenger, Charlie finds himself with another promise to fulfil. Charlie does so - and falls head over heels in love with Gabi, a beautiful musician. However, a vicious gangster has already laid claim to Gabi, and has no intention of letting her go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into the hallucinatory, Romanian underworld filled with violence and, strangely enough, love. Features an all-star cast including Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, and Rupert Grint.
Leave your thoughts about Charlie Countryman.
| New YorkerBruce DionesLaBeouf, who throws himself whole-heartedly into every role regardless of its worth, is a fearless and fascinating actor, and his sincerity holds the entire sleazy mess together. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenThe Romanian Tourist Board will not like what it sees, not will much of the audience. |
| QuickflixGlenn DunksThe ugly step-child of In Bruges with none of the class or wit, Charlie Countryman is truly terrible. |
| GeekNationEric D. SniderThe haphazard use of magical realism and the ever-shifting thrust of the narrative makes the film wear out its welcome long before it's over. |
| Schmoes KnowMark EllisSomewhere along the way, we the audience, lose track of the tremendous acting and directing potential when we start to wonder why we ever cared about these people in the first place? |
| New York Magazine/VultureBilge EbiriHowever you cut it, with all that talent, Charlie Countryman feels like a sad, wasted opportunity. |
| RedEyeMatt PaisUnexpectedly funny, consistently engrossing. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenThis catastrophe of a movie zigzags drunkenly between action-adventure and surreal comedy with some magical realism slopped over it like ketchup. |
| Empire MagazineDamon WiseA caper thriller that's sufficiently zippy to hold the attention. LaBeouf's current notoriety adds extra piquancy to those urban fight scenes. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineShia LaBeouf is well-cast in this freewheeling combination of comedy, romance and action. He plays a scruffy guy with no plans and nothing to lose, lost in a strange culture while falling in love with the wrong woman. |