Babel
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Movie Reviews of Babel
Movie Review: THE MOST BRILLIANT FILM OF THE CENTURY SO FAR...!
Summary: 5 Stars
As powerful and brilliant Inarritu's first two films were ("Amores Perros" and "21 Grams"), they seem to have naturally led to this quintessential masterpiece, "Babel", a tour-de-force of cinematic poetry and complexity of emotion.
Placing what seems disconnected stories in four locations of the world, the film gradually comes together like a wonderful jigsaw which succeeds at emphasizing how much all the people of the world depend of each other as well as the difficulty of human communication between us. Without any didactical preaching, the story -- and Inirratu's sure directorial hand -- moves the viewer through pain and redemption like a journey through a perfect diamond. The film travels from a poor sheepherder in Morocco to the final scenes atop a rich penthouse in Tokyo putting the viewer through a kaleidoscopic journey of the heart. Ultimately, the film becomes a great celebration of the human spirit and a testament of precisely what a high art the cinema can be at its best.
Don't miss this one, the best film the millennium has given us to date.
Movie Review: THIS SHOULD HAVE WON BEST PICTURE
Summary: 5 Stars
I've heard mostly negative comments about this movie. I finally rented and watched it. The movie is long, but I was never bored for a moment.
This is a well acted, well written movie that was in a much higher league than Little Miss Sunshine, a film I liked, but was a pretty good little movie. The Queen? Boring. Departed, nice movie, Leo was great..Departed was not near the quality of say, Goodfellows. Again, I liked it, but it wasn't great.
If you like a movie with a different approach, and keeps you wondering what's going to happen next. This is the movie for you. The three stories intertwine and come together at the end.
I was slightly confused at the end, when Brad Pitt's charater was talking to his nanny on the phone and it didn't make sense. Then someone explained to me that the conversation took place a day or so in the past. Just a slight misfire on my part. You really have to pay attention anc concentrate on what's going on. A pee break in the middle might lose you...I loved this movie, and I thought I would hate it!
Movie Review: Babel is a towering achievement
Summary: 5 Stars
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu, the director of "Babel", has stitched together several fine stories into one film...certainly one of the triumphs of 2006. With not one mediocre performance in this lengthy cast, Inarritu manages to take four separate cultures...American, Mexican, Japanese and Moroccan to remind us not only of our shrinking world's great connections with each other but that we are all, in a sense, the same under the skin.
Expansive and colorful, "Babel" is often breathless. Performances by Rinko Kichuki as a Japanese deaf-mute and Adriana Barraza as a Mexican nanny stand out. Brad Pitt, sharing the bill with so many other fine actors is convincing as an often tormented American husband trying to save the life of his wounded wife. All of this works together with such clarity and force that to see it just once would hardly give it justice.
The real applause goes to director Gonzalez Inarritu. His scope is broad, the timing is well-paced and everything about "Babel" rings true. It is a masterful movie and one I highly recommend.
Movie Review: A brilliant movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is definitely not a Hollywoodian movie. How about seeing it as a story about karma, negative karma, action and reaction. If you think of it (provided you have seen this movie), you will realize that the Japanese portion of the story is actually central to all the events, which originate in the Japanese executive. Karma continues to play its devastating role throughout the movie, across all the countries and cultures portrayed.
Having lived for over 10 years in Morocco, I can say that the Moroccan actors did a fabulous job, that the settings were extremely well chosen and looked authentic (I didn't live in the southern Moroccan mountains where this movie was partly shot, so I can't witness to the 100% authenticity of setting).
As for the actors, one of the best roles for Brad Pitt, which he performed perfectly. All of the actors did a superb job. Coming to this movie without any notion of its plot or setting (sorry I was so ignorant!), I was swept off my feet. Highly recommended.
Movie Review: An enlightening and mesmerizing film!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good movie with comments to make on many levels. It shows the heartache that one couple has to overcome after losing a child. There is a certain poetic justice about the stupidity of a nanny putting herself in jeopardy, a pleasant, caring woman who has been breaking the law for 16 years. Then there is the story of two boys who play their rifle games oblivious to what harm they are doing to other people, completely innocent people. Does their culture create people, even young ones, who are so irresponsible? Today's newspapers confirm the film's answer . . a resounding yes. And, attached to the film's plot by a very slender thread, the Japanese girl has pain that can be felt by everyone watching her, including the audience.
I wouldn't necessarily call this film enjoyable, but it is an enlightening and mesmerizing film. It also has probably the best role that Brad Pitt has ever had or played.