It's best to go into this one with either no idea of the plot or just what's provided on the back of the DVD. Stuart Gordon has made a fine transition to gritty crime films, and Edmond is a fine example.

I wanted to like this - Mamet plus a great cast - but it felt very contrived to me. I just didn't get the Macy character and it all felt like a bit of an intellectual wank.

gordon + mamet + macy + misanthropy. pretty sweet. some of the supporting actors blow but its still a rockin movie.

"Like Paul Haggis's Crash, the characters speak their minds so fully (or lie about their feelings so transparently) that the stuff which should be bubbling under the surface is constantly rising in fiery tirades." - Jeremiah Kipp

bad acting, bad script, obvious direction mistakes and a very worn out idea that tells nothing new. overall i didn't enjoy any little bit of it, only except for the very very ending.

A surreal, sometimes one-of-a-kind experience charting the transformation of a seemingly racist homophobic into a whole other man via mad experiences frequently ending in bloodshed, Stuart Gordon's Edmond scores points as a concept but the execution isn't pristine. Rather than the alternately hilarious and discomforting head trip we'd anticipate, it's a narratively contrived and dramatically unwinning role. For his part, Milliam H. Macy does deserve some credit.

The autistic hero (William H. Macy) haggles with whores and God, murders an aspiring-actress mcguffin, goes bald and moustachey in prison, and [SPOILER ALERT] kisses his black cellmate. If the director of Re-Animator (plus an all-star cast) can't salvage this shockingly awful Mamet play, maybe nothing can.

William H. Macy is very good but I just can't honestly say I enjoyed it. I can honestly say it's something different and I haven't seen anything like it before.

wanted to like it, but macy's neo-hippie speech patterns/subjects are to overbearing, and honestly it's about as realistic as a donut shaped diamond for breakfast.

Very good.

Very different, but still something "the same" about it.

The idea of the story is marv, but we are not talking abut Falling Down with Michael Douglas. The script is badly written, directing is weak and the whole thing is male chauvinistic. Lots of good actors, William H. Macy, Mena Suvari, Denise Richards, Julia Stiles. Ebbe Roe Smith just wrote it much more better way.