Green Book [DVD] [2018]

I love this movie. What a great performance by the cast. 4K plus digital copy included.

I was very surprised by this movie. I had not heard much about it when it was in the theaters and I only bought it because one of the employees at Best Buy recommended it. I'm very happy that I bought it.

This is what movie making should be like ALL the time. Good story, great acting. Very enjoyable film. I had never heard about the travel guide that this movie is named after. Nice bit of history to learn....

Great movie highly recommend if you're into dramas

It's an honour to see a movie like this and to be very honest this movie is hands down one of the very best that I've had pleasure to watch. I like how they first portrayed Viggo Mortensen's character as kind of a dick and but soon you get to realise that he is totally opposite of that and i was totally in love with his character. Secondly, Maharshala Ali's character is also portrayed perfectly and we are shown what he and the whole African-American community goes through even though they maybe a famous personality. Thirdly, the whole picturisation and cinematography was as crisp as the KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN they have in KENTUCKY(Who thought that was possible?) and I can't believe i am saying this again but it made me genuinely fall in love with the movie. Whole cast eventhough Tony's family is only in it for less than 15 minutes but still they were perfect. I can't see any other person who might be a better fit to the characters of Tony and Dr. Shirley. The soundtrack was great, the performance from Maharshala Ali on the Piano was fantastic! And you get the point the movie was downright perfect! Easily in my top 5 and its not even an exaggeration.

There isn't a person you wouldn't love if you could read their story. I tend to try and not speak in absolutes and there may or may not be some exceptions to this rule, but the point is an obvious one: all the races and people with different sexual orientations or different religious beliefs can get along once we really get to know one another; that we're not really all that different after all. That's all well and good, but it's also a tried and true formula that at least one Hollywood production trots out every awards season to try and make us all feel better about ourselves. One might think, given the current cultural climate, that any movie attempting to bring people together might immediately be dismissed as one party's agenda to corrupt another into actually having a conversation with a person of opposing views, but maybe that's ultimately why Green Book feels so good right now and ironically, so needed. There isn't a thing here you haven't heard or seen before and director Peter Farrelly (one half of the brother directing duo who brought us comedy classics like Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary, but also brought us Dumb & Dumber To and The Heartbreak Kid) directs with the eye of about as mainstream a filmmaker as it gets meaning there is nothing glaringly unique or interesting about the way in which he captures these events, but this does mean it will undoubtedly speak to a very large audience. There was some slight hope that Farrelly might utilize his experience in his years of making broad studio comedies to infuse the many predictable formulas this movie utilizes with a more striking tone or presence, but while taking on a project like this might have been a bold thing for the filmmaker to do given his past credits he alas decides to do nothing bold in the execution of this change in pace, but instead plays it right down the middle. Fortunately for Farrelly, the story has such a great inherent hook and given he's hired two more than capable talents to lead his film it hardly matters how he's saying what he wants to say as long as it's competent enough to capture how Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen are saying what they want to say. It's largely through these two performers that Green Book transcends the calculations of a movie such as itself, eclipsing every predictable note it plays that could have so easily rung false to become something genuinely endearing; a true crowd-pleaser in the least cynical and most delightful of ways.

Dr. Don Shirley is a world-class African-American pianist who's about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and protection, Shirley recruits Tony Lip, a tough-talking bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx. Despite their differences, the two men soon develop an unexpected bond while confronting racism and danger in an era of segregation.

I have to say, I am very surprised this movie has not received more attention! Reading the plot simply doesn't do it justice. You have to sit down and get immersed into the story. The actors do a great job in their roles as the movie rolls on, like an adventure, where the viewer doesn't know what to expect. I should also add that it's rated PG-13 so that makes it the type of movie that can appeal to a wider family audience. More than anything, it's just very entertaining; and in my opinion, one of the best movies over the last several years. I would highly recommend this movie to others.