Babel (2006)

If you like stupid movies about stupid people, watch this one.

The storylines are stupid and the characters are stupid. What a waste of time. September 20, 2008

THE MOST BRILLIANT FILM OF THE CENTURY SO FAR...!

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. September 10, 2008

"Babel" - left wing Hollywood does it again

What did I learn from watching "Babel"?
1. Never leave your kids alone with a Mexican Nannie.
2. Being a Tokyo dentist has its perks.
3. Americans - just stay the F out of the Middle East.

Of course, the way this movie is produced is you're supposed to feel bad for the drunk Mexican endangering the lives of two little kids, and the "bad guys" are the border patrol officers who try to help them.
We are also supposed to feel bad for two Morrocan kids who shoot an innocent American tourist, and a Japanese deaf/mute slut (I'm not kidding) who flashes her snatch all over Tokyo.
I give this movie a "C", unless you're a smarter than the rest of us liberal movie reviewer, who all loved this lame movie. September 3, 2008

Awful

This is a perfect example of what happens when a decent idea is poorly developed. A shame.

We waited for it--it being the plot, and characters worth caring about. And now that the movie is over, we are still waiting. Even though there were several interesting aspects, overall it was a waste of the concept. August 23, 2008

CONFUSING

This was the most confusing crock that I have watched in a long time. Already about an hour too long, I had to keep rewinding segments because I thought that I missed something. But I didn't miss anything - the producers and director did - they missed what makes a really good movie. The subject matter is confusing enough without trying to interweave a "Crash"-type scenario across continents and cultures. I'm still trying to figure out how the Mexican nanny fits in and she was the most sympathetic character. The Japanese segment could have been left out altogether - deaf students, weapons, detectives, discos - just too much to digest, with no sake to wash it down with. Leave this one alone and watch "Happy Feet" - fast moving penguins make more sense with their flippers than this movie does! August 3, 2008

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