Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
And a new level of boredom is born.
memento_mori - wrote on 12/06/2013
Well, KingInTheNorth was right when he warned me of watching this film. I do not like it.
Now, I am very critical when it comes to the drama genre, my personal favorite. Especially when there is a romance story involved, one of my least favorite genres. This film's Wikipedia page, at least at the time of posting this review, says that this film is a 'dystopian science-fiction drama film'.
And let me just tell you, this film is about 10% dystopian science-fiction drama and 90% love triangle.
That's right. Around three lines of text at the beginning of the film sum up what has happened to this point, so we can concentrate on everything else that isn't important. That's all the dystopia and sci-fi you're going to get in this movie.
The direction and writing are both poor in …
Rating of
3/4
Never Let Me Go review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 09/04/2012
AI and Surrogates without the special effects and with a love story angle. Kathy H (Carey Mulligan) recalls her childhood at Hailsham together with Tommy (Charlie Rowe/Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Ella Purnell/Keira Knightley). Narration and score was good. Some scenes were a bit sluggish. Cinematography and photography were spectacular. Highlight would be Mulligan's performance and the brilliant screenplay. One of the best lines: Kathy - "We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time." and "It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart." Never Let Me Go's intent …
Rating of
3/4
Much weaker than the book!
Zeljka - wrote on 04/28/2012
I've read the book, so I maybe got an unfairly advantage over those who haven't but watched only the movie, but have I seen the movie first, I probably wouldn't even want to read the book. Because movie went in quite a different direction than the book - in my opinion - changed the characters and the way their relationships were. While watching the movie, I couldn't feel the connection with the characters nor understand their relationships as well as why do people behave like that to them - I was more frustrated by their passivity and submissiveness, which was nowhere to be explained except by their childhood brainwashing and electronic gadgets that kept them constantly under surveillance. But that things do not really explain why they didn't even TRY to change things - that's why the …
Rating of
3/4
could have and should have been more powerful
mrschu47912 - wrote on 10/26/2010
If you’ve paid any attention to trailers, you’ll know that Never Let Me Go is based on what time magazine calls the best novel of the decade. I haven’t read the book, but I can only assume that it is at least decent book. When reviewing a film that is an adaptation of a book, I have a hard time deciding what to think. Sometimes the movie is changed drastically, and therefore you can treat it like an original story. But when it is a straight-up adaption, which I believe this is, I don’t know what to give the filmmakers credit for. After seeing this film, I think I understand.
Never Let Me Go studies the original themes of the novel, and does it well. Give them credit for that. I could use this time to discuss the story of people who live their whole life as spare parts. But I …
