Imagine Martin Scorsese tells you that you are only good for making amusement park rides for Disney babies and you get spooked so bad that you try to make a *two and a half hour* dramatic adaptation of a bestseller that is markedly more shallow than the movies with the flag-shield man and his talking raccoon friends. Indefensible.

Biggest revelation is that the Russo brothers would make pretty solid 2010s music video directors

a 14 year-old's high school play version of a serious film about war and drug addiction, painfully over-cranked with a never-ending assault of ugly and empty style tics by two tv producers who don't want to convey ideas or characters as much as they want you to know that they're Real Fucking Directors, man. awful awful awful

There isn't a single thing in this that isn't clichéd, recycled, or both. The Russos, news to nobody, are producers and not directors. Tom Holland is bad in it but everyone else is much worse.

seems like Thanos snapped out Russo Bros directing talent alongside the half of humanity

Editing is my passion ❤️

So you're telling me the Russo Brothers only consist of 2 dudes? Cause it feels like there's 10 different people directing this.

This is... a WHOLE lotta movie. Can't say I've ever experienced a coming of age story that morphs into a military/life of crime and drug addiction film though so... that was something

I realize this is based on someones real life but it felt like the Russo's decided the 'Wake Me Up when September Ends' video needed to be a feature film

This either needed to be condensed more in the drug area, or turned into a 4-5 part mini series.

The Russo Brothers are nothing but directors of spectacle; they cannot meaningfully present war and its effect on soldiers because their only thought is to attempt surface-level entertainment. Resultantly, for such a heavily overstylized movie it is unbelievably bland, the shallowness with which it portrays PTSD and drug addiction furthered in no way by its self-indulgent overbearing stylizations. An hour and 40 minutes in, I realized I could describe the plot in its entirety in a single sentence, and the movie seems completely unaware of the simplicity of its story. Instead of being intimate and caring, it goes big and loud, in your face and literally up Tom Holland's ass. There are trippy, psychedelic films designed to make you feel like you're on drugs; this movie, with its aggressive stylistic choices and flimsy superficiality, will make you feel like you overdosed.

I started to watch this movie because I love Tom Holland and I wanted to see him act outside of the role of Peter Parker. But I got 1 hour and 45 minutes in to this movie and was t invested at all I thought it was boring and slow, I have no intention of finishing it and wouldn't recommend watching it

Tom Holland was great but this was just a really weird watching experience

What was the reason?

Tom Holland!!

Little Tommy's all grown up.

The Russos try a change of pace with this combination coming-of-age tale/war movie/addiction drama/heist flick, using every stylistic trick in the book and some dark humor to keep things from getting too damn bleak, even though they are.

Largely holds together due to Holland's committed against-type performance: Cherry's supposed to be a nameless blank, a guy who just goes with the flow adapting to any situation and making one bad decision after another.

He goes from disenfranchised young man, to PTSD-afflicted soldier, to unrepentant junkie, to screw-up bank robber in the course of two and a half hours. Tom nails it, only faltering a bit at the end where Cherry's supposed to be in his late thirties or early forties; it's too soon for the fresh-faced Holland to pull that off, even with a ridiculous moustache.

Good performance from Tom

Nice to see that the nutter from the Inbetweeners movie is going somewhere

Cherry is an interesting commentary on how the military preys on vulnerable people looking for help or feel like they’re worth nothing more. Leaving them traumatized with no resources for them to get back on their feet, which can lead to many bad circumstances. There is a disconnect between the two halves of the movie. Towards the end you almost forget this started as a war story. I know many people had issues with the two leading actors looking so young. However, I think this adds to the point that youth is very impulsive, vulnerable, and can be targeted to fall into these things. There are many valid criticisms with this film. Yet, it was very thought provoking and a topic that should be explored more.

watching an almost 3-hour-movie should be exhausted like i watched this one. what the fuck was the epilogue???? it was so lame for the first half of the movie, then suddenly it was super rushed. it was like watching random vids on youtube because it makes no sense actually.   # tom holland’s flop era

Cherry é um filme vazio. Enche-se de estéticas narrativas e visuais aleatórias para parecer um filme mais profundo do que de fato é. Os irmãos Russo colocam muitas ideias em jogo, mas não trabalham nenhuma delas. Uma hora é um filme sobre relacionamento, depois sobre militares, depois sobre vício em drogas e então se torna sobre roubo a bancos. É um filme longo que tem muita coisa, mas ao mesmo tempo não conversa sobre nada. Tom Holland até tenta entregar uma atuação diferente da que normalmente vemos dele, mas o roteiro e a direção não lhe oferecem muita oportunidade.