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MGeo
1Feb12
I admit, this film's plot is not well-constructed, had good intentions, but is still a failure. Yet I really like the movie for two reasons alone: Saoirse Ronan and Stanley Tucci (more Ronan than anything else). Their performances are the only good thing about this movie. This introduced me to Saoirse Ronan who is my favorite young actress at present, and who I think will be a great actress someday...but not in this.
Peter Brooks Lazar
15Dec11
When you take away the fun, fantastical adventure source material of The Lord of the Rings or King Kong, you're left with this: an over-produced, misconceived, exercise in bad taste and self indulgence.
Z
17Oct11
A colossal failure. Saoirse Ronan's talent is wasted in an overproduced, elephantine annoyance. Peter Jackson has lost his way as a filmmaker.
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witchnymph
30Aug11
Really beautiful and interesting film. Her death was amazingly done and refreshing considering most films these days just focus on gore and the shock factor.
Certainshoes
1Aug11
This movie is completly underrated! i wonder what's so wrong that no one admits to like it! i loved the performances and peter jackson really knows how to make the visual impact... i think this is certainly a 4/5 or a 7/10....
Pedro Franceschini
25Apr11
Do you remember "What Dreams May Come"? Now imagine it (way) worse! Someone should tell Peter Jackson that pretty landscapes (are they?really? they look more like kitsch-CG) don't make up a good story by themselves. It is sad to see good actors in such a bad movie.
Talkin' Meat
10Feb11
lo vidi a s. Valentino e non mi piacque altro che l'ambientazione ultraterrena; ciononostante, amabili ricordi...
Gabriel Argüello
19Dec10
It's all right for the first 30 minutes but as soon as we get in her CG world it's just bad...
June Picasso
14Nov10
Painfully slow-paced and poetic - although beautiful visually. I wish the length of the 'grieving process' was more pronounced. Having read and studied the book definitely came in handy (-:
Daniel S.
17Oct10
**1/2. Safe and harmless serial killer movie with the victim's point of view. Now, Peter Jackson tried with difficulty to elaborate a second level, very mystical according to his point of view. It didn't work for me, not because I'm a hopeless agnostic but because the computerized after life vision of the director is rather ridiculous to say the least. Peter Jackson isn't an auteur, a very gifted technician, yes, but not an auteur. Already forgotten. As my friend Heliodorus of Emesa used to tell me: " You may have the Power and the Wealth, you won't be able to sit with hemorrhoids. ".
Christopher Smith
17Oct10
There are things that work about this movie. It's a marked improvement on Alice Sebold's mediocre novel, and the expertly-crafted and stylishly shot suspense scenes are glimpses of the filmmaker Peter Jackson once was and may still be. But these inspired moments are spaced out in a film packed with underdeveloped characters, sloppy plotting, and forced sentimentality. A major disappointment.