itsbobr Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) a war veteran with PTSD tracks down missing girls for a living. His past torments him and he has hallucinations and experiences a distorted sense of reality. He contemplates suicide but doesn't do it, but does practice it with a plastic bag over his head and pulls it away at the last second.Remind me next time a Joaquin Phoenix is in a movie to really check it out before sitting down with it. He seems to revel in the Artsy movies, very slow with constant screen shots of his face. Okay his character is tormented about his past, lives with his mother and uses a ball peen hammer as his weapon of choice when confronting those who harm children. He goes about his business in a very calm manner killing those in his way. The title is so that when he kills someone he cleans everything up like he was never there. His next assignment is to free Senator Votto's (Allexl Manette) daughter Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov) and he does, but there is a twist about all this and you won't like it. This is very slow going and we never know what avenue Joe will go down next and for we in the audience this is somewhat annoying. Joe doesn't talk much. Scenes jump around a lot. All along in this we see flashbacks of his time in the war. Also the music never seems to fit.Notables: Frank Pando as Angel, Joe's first handler; John Doman as John McCleary Joe's second handler; Judith Roberts as Joe's mother.NOW consider that all this is a fantasy that Joe has about everything and nothing is real except in his mind. He was never in the war. He fantasizes about saving Nina who is really his mother, who he very close to, but he is the one who kills her; and in the diner at the end Joe actually does commit suicide and that should have been the last scene, but it wasn't. The very last scene has Nina coming back from the bathroom and says, "let's go as it's a nice day out there. So maybe he didn't commit suicide. See? I don't. So you decide. As for me I will be more careful about Joaquin Phoenix movies. Don't care for Artsy movies as I never really understand them. (5/10)Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: No. Language: Yes. Rating: C

celtic451 Wow this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's mostly his day to day life - I mean like moment to moment stuff - looking in the refrigerator, riding a cab, talking to his mom, walking around, buying a drink, hanging out in the closet. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. And the music is just plain awful and weird. Don't waste your time!

mhuseman-20255 WARNING SPOILERS! You Were Never Really Here....nobody was anywhere. It was all over the place. What was with the back and forth flashbacks of Phoenix as a child? That was never explained. If the writer wanted to do a piece about human sex trafficking then do it-it needs to be addressed because the media won't talk about it. But this was a garbage piece that went in circles. This is why I do not go to the movies. Most films out of Hollyweird stink and this one reeks. It's not art - I don't know who thinks this movie is in any way art. Save your time and moola

clue0000 I can never get that hour and a half back for the rest of my life