Irrational Man

2015

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 46% · 203 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 46% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 70140 70.1K

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Plot summary

On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

Director

Woody Allen Photo
Woody Allen

Top cast

Emma Stone Photo
Emma Stone as Jill
Chris Palermo Photo
Chris Palermo as Cocktail Party Professor
Susan Pourfar Photo
Susan Pourfar as Carol
Joaquin Phoenix Photo
Joaquin Phoenix as Abe
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691.81 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 3
1.44 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by NoTimeForCaution 7 / 10

Nothing special but worth a watch

An interesting and enjoyable watch, but a little slow at times. Irrational Man is one of those movies where going in blind will certainly make for a better experience. Emma Stone gives a great performance in this and Joaquin Phoenix is amazing as always, and for the most part there is some great dialogue and chemistry between them. Probably would've been a much lower rating if not for Joaquin Pheonix's performance, who I am yet to see in a bad movie. It isn't the masterpiece I was hoping for from a Woody Allen film, and certainly does not compare to Midnight in Paris or Blue Jasmine, but it's still an enjoyable one and worth a watch.
Reviewed by Hitchcoc 7 / 10

Morality Has to Be Faced, Even to an Existentialist, Maybe Moreso

When one reads the book "The Irrational Man" by William Barrett, one gets a touch of everything that haunts the persona of Joaquin Phoenix's professor in this film. He had almost developed a sort of out of body experience as he lays the principals of philosophy on his private school students. He is a loner and a cynic and can't find happiness. He has begun to pick and chose the most abysmal views on life. All those philosophers from Kant to Kierkegaard have seen the underbelly of reality in the world. Yet, like Wooody Allen, they continued to write and produce. Why? Because when push comes to shove, our mortality is what we have; our lives are still all we have. Unless you believe in some afterlife where we continue to act as we do now, even that is filled with uncertainties. Abe, in this film, has a kind of mental constipation going on. He can't write and can't have sex and can't be embraced socially in his world. He is truly reckless, as shown by his encounter with Russian roulette. When he begins to see himself as Raskalnikov in "Crime and Punishment," he commits a murder which he justifies by saying the world is a better place without a harsh judge. I think where it falls apart is that Abe never, for a moment, considers that police often have to blame someone. Emma Stone's character lays it out for him later and it's as if he had never thought of the results of his actions. He really believed in the perfect crime. He really believed that they would never blame someone. He is then faced with a Jean Valjean choice as to whether to fess up and give up his life for someone he doesn't even know. The result of the whole thing is quite disappointing, but, then, Allen paints him into a corner. '
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