Nick Walde I have come watching "Grand Piano" right after the very similar movie "Whiplash", which I count to one of my most stunning movie experiences I had. "Grand Piano" on the other hand, was a very disappointing experience. However, this does not necessarily make it a bad movie. The premise of "Grand Piano" is a very interesting one. A concert pianist with stage fright is getting blackmailed into playing a perfect piano concert, or he will be shot. A musical version of "Speed", with a bit less action, but a much more thrilling atmosphere, undermined by a dramatic orchestral soundtrack. Sadly though, the premise is about everything this movie has to offer. The reason behind the blackmail is kind of forced and only serves to allow the premise, without much deeper thought behind it. This pattern can be transferred over to the whole movie. It's not bad, but there are an immense amount of missed opportunities. Instead of letting the orchestra a similar, overly dramatic style of music for the whole film, it could have been more dynamic and thus adding more facets to it. Having slow parts, loud parts, fast parts, silent parts, dramatic parts, melancholic parts, and so on, would have opened up to a much more rememberable atmosphere. However the director decides to be one dynamic, and the result is a 90 minute long opera/film, that gets pretty boring halfway through because there's nothing unexpected to it. And even still, I was packed watching the movie and wanted to see it concluded, aware of the obvious faults. The conclusion, however, was the worst of all. The movie feels the unnecessary need to include an action scene, destroying the tension, and eventually ends way too late, in an effort to make up for the bad ending. This terribly performed effort was the nail in the coffin, for what could've been a great movie.

inforaza Grand Piano is supposed to be a psychological thriller – but it falls flat! This 1 hr 20 minutes film looked like a Showreel for some students of film-making. I suspect Eugenio Mira made this (test) film to hone his own skills to make something better in future. LOL! In the film, there is an embedded lock in the piano which if released would yield a key to a safe deposit box containing the late pianist Patrick Godureaux's disappeared fortune. The villain himself is the locksmith who worked with Godureaux to construct the mechanism.This is truly a convoluted idea! Why'd Patrick construct this mechanism, in the first place? What is the benefit of this hopelessly contrived technique to hide the key to the safe deposit box? When he dies who is supposed to find the key? One who can play "La Cinquette" perfectly (like Elijah Wood, a student of Patrick)? Does this mean whoever plays La Cinquette well becomes the rightful owner of the fortune? How hilarious! It'd have been credible had Patrick willed away the fortune to Elijah Wood through that key and no one is aware of this (not even Elijah) except a few trustworthy people. But the villain somehow becomes aware of this secret key.Coming back the film, it is well-paced & well-cinematographed no doubt - but DOES NOT offer any tangible thrill and suspense at all. You can easily ignore it without feeling an iota of guilt, unless you sincerely want to check things out for yourself.By the way, the movie ends in a very strange way! Elijah plays the damaged Piano and the key falls out of the Piano and then the credits starts scrolling.How am I supposed to react to this? Fall out of my chair? If ever you want to see an UNCONVINCING ending then watch Grand Piano.

Wizard-8 My father alerted me to this movie, which he found to be quite ridiculous. After some searching, I found a copy and watched it for myself. And I did find it to indeed be quite silly for the most part. It starts off okay, the first twenty-five minutes or so being a little dull and padded out but otherwise competent. Then when Wood first discovers on stage in front of an audience that he and his wife are in trouble, the movie starts to be quite unbelievable. What the Cusack character has planned and is executing is quite outlandish - there had to be easier ways to get to what he was wanting! As for what he wants, the explanation for it is somewhat garbled and short - I had to do some research after watching the movie to confirm the theory I eventually had in my mind. The movie is never dull, and it has some skillful direction (some great camera movements here), but ultimately it becomes quite unbelievable. Cusack fans might want to be warned that you mostly just hear and not see him in the movie. And the fact the closing credits last a whopping twelve minutes suggest the filmmakers themselves realized they had a thin story here and had to pad things out even further.

Daniel Symonds Haiku Review-A guilty pleasure- An interesting concept- Says what on the boxI have to write ten lines, so I figure I should probably say a bit more . I liked this film, not a lot more to say. Well I guess you should probably watch it. I hope this is not considered "junk words". Y'see I only really want to write haikus. Perhaps that's not intellectual for ya'll. Doesn't really matter. Is this ten lines? Not yet. Also I spelt the word "Haiku" wrong. Sorry IMDb. Still not ten lines. So yeah Eijah Wood- is that his name?- he seems a pretty solid guy. Made a decent film. 6/10. Cool. Kinda short. Is that ten lines enough for you? NO! Appears I have to spell Haiku right before I post.