Naked is hard to discribe. If you find "access" to this unpleasant sometimes painful movie you will be fascinated. I did it. A story about humanity and the selfishness we act as a part in our brutal and stupid society!On the outside we are all like strangers. The exaggerated character drawing creates the right atmosphere. Mike Leigh's best movie!

The dialogue in this movie is really fantastic. Johnny is so extremely awesome, yet I felt a little sorry for him. Good character development, not always good acting

If ever a rapist and thief could be considered charming, it's Johnny. Though he's riddled with character flaws - beyond his obvious moral transgressions, he displays a general dislike for humanity - it's wildly entertaining listening to his rambling philosophical notions, and Thewlis turns him into a sort of everyman folk hero. The stream-of-consciousness nature of the film is surprisingly effective and held my interest throughout. A really intimate and engaging film.

The dialogue is sharp and very funny yet never feels unnatural, the thematic exploration is hard to pin down to any sort of central themes yet is endlessly fascinating, the film is incredibly dark and bleak and David Thewlis' performance as Johnny is remarkable: he'd be an incredibly charming character if, y'know, he wasn't so nasty, uncaring, selfish and prone to raping people (and even then it's hard not to enjoy every moment he's philosophising or joking around).

The prophet with a lost cause roams the streets of London, provoking all in his path. The harp plays a tune equal parts intense and sad. The heart races and the spirit soars.

A jolly old story about an intellectual rapist folk-hero.

Mike Leigh is excellent at choosing and directing actors - Thewlis and Cartlidge in particular. Terryfic film!!!

Every single bit of dialogue with David Thewlis is earth-shattering. You don't come across dialogue this intelligent very often. The conversation between Johnny and Brian, the night watch guard, is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. The numerous single-shot sequences are spectacular. Mike Leigh is the master of creating relationships between characters; relationships with both other characters and more importantly, themselves.

In Finland we used to have a bohemian actor Matti Pellonpää. You might know him from Kaurismäki films. He could go through a part like this with the same charm David Thewlis did. Anyway. Naked is prob. the best film by Mike Leigh. It's witty, intellectual, sexy, edgy, warm even with the dark side of life, well scored, perfectly acted and nicely built characters. A well written story indeed.

David Thewlis is electrifying in every scene he's in, and he's ably supported by the likes of Lesley Sharp and a hilariously incoherent Ewen Bremner. Jeremy's the least interesting character here, but I still laughed and cringed in his scenes as I was supposed to. The London we see is grimy and disgusting - when Johnny says the apocalypse is coming, you believe it.

I'm pretty sure I saw this when I was like 15 and half-asleep, with my younger brother and his friend sleeping over. Anyway, all I remember is some rape, a pregnant chick? And the dude being all shifty and dodgy as hell. Probably could have been funny or good, but all that is too much to take at 2am.

Very engaging dark British comedy exploring nihilism; and much to the chagrin of the common viewer, there IS a point here which Johnny finally gets while clutching the porcelain god: THIS *IS* ALL A JOKE, but not a very good one.

Brilliant Dialogues ! But with the lack of suspense and specially reasonable motivations. too slow!

Almost unbearably bleak at times, we sense that these characters have been in similar situations many times before and will be again in the future, never digging themselves out of their holes. Thewlis is, of course, the highlight, never once stepping out of place, although every performance is fantastic. I found all of Johnny's rants interesting, as much of a despicable bastard as he is.

Immensely quotable.

I hated almost every second of this. I didn't find it especially clever or poignant. Instead I thought it was unbearably misanthropic and inconsistent. There are some interesting moments in the middle where Johnny is wandering around talking to lonely people, but after that it goes right back to being an awful train wreck. While this might among the most unpleasant films that I've ever seen, I don't regret at least giving it a chance. I just couldn't stand it.

Some zingers and a conversation about the nature of God and the end of the world don't stack up to a good film. Everyone is trying so goddamn hard to be edgy they HAVE to make the protagonist a rapist, otherwise Thewlis is just some black clad douche. And let's throw in another nihilist-rapist-extraordinaire who has the most tenuous of connections to any of the other characters, that's surely a stirring indictment of the human condition. About as insufferable as a Holden Caulfield livejournal.

I must admit, I've always had trouble with Leigh's films and this one finally seals it. I'm not sure if any other director has been as heralded as "realistic" while being so opposed to subtlety. I think the problem lies in the improvisational nature of his films which sees his actors so intent on aggressively creating and establishing a character (and little else) that after 2+ hours I feel beat over the head with the obviousness of it all.