Charlie Countryman
Fate brought Gabi and Charlie together as they were fellow passengers who fell in love, while travelling to Bucharest. After discovering that Gabi is married to a brutal thug he tries to liberate Gabi from her husband.
11 September 1981, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
1 March 1977, Bals, Olt, Romania
1 August 1982, England, UK
15 September 1963, Constanta, Romania
October 31, 2014
An eccentric, energetic muddle of a film that is badly overcooked by commercials director Fredrik Bond.
November 15, 2013
This catastrophe of a movie zigzags drunkenly between action-adventure and surreal comedy with some magical realism slopped over it like ketchup.
November 25, 2013
LaBeouf, who throws himself whole-heartedly into every role regardless of its worth, is a fearless and fascinating actor, and his sincerity holds the entire sleazy mess together.
November 19, 2014
A wildly unauthentic offering, that manages to take such raw, human emotions, and produce a picture that revels, frustratingly, in frivolity and irreverence.
November 15, 2013
However you cut it, with all that talent, Charlie Countryman feels like a sad, wasted opportunity.
November 03, 2014
As for Shia, he's wildly self-indulgent and narcissistic: all puppy eyes, emoting and angsting like there's no tomorrow. He just doesn't know when eneouf is eneouf.
November 15, 2013
Even though you learn that Charlie is absolute aces at running from bad guys, the character pretty much remains a confusing, empty vessel. As does the movie.
October 31, 2014
The weird filmography of Shia LaBeouf, from Fury to Nymphomaniac via Transformers, continues with an ecstasy-fuelled excursion to eastern Europe in the bizarre The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.
November 15, 2013
It's a thoroughly queasy pastiche of magic-realism/coming-of-age/romantic-thriller/bloody-Chiclets nonsense (and when I say "nonsense" I am substituting a much stronger word).
October 31, 2014
This is a weird and self-indulgent affair that is easy to mock but that, just occasionally, captures the romantic feel of the equally pretentious but magical Leos Carax films of the late 1980s.
August 26, 2015
Ultimately, Charlie Countryman bites off more than it can chew and winds up feeling more absurd than memorable.
November 15, 2013
Ah, Bucharest. That exotic, Eastern European hotbed of romance, intrigue and hefty film-production tax breaks.

