Babel (2006)

"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

What was good about this?

Wow, what a stinker. I was told this was like "Crash." I liked Crash - a lot. This movie drags like molasses as we are shown several different stories that so obviously interconnect that you would have to be a simpleton not to connect most of them long before the reveal.

But mostly, in between long boring scenes which are supposed to teach us about other cultures I suppose, you get to watch stupid people make stupid decision after stupid decision.

My wife and I were talking aloud during the last 30 minutes without even pausing the movie as we discussed the stupid things that were happening and how annoying the whole thing had been.

THEN, they wrap it up with a Hollywood ending that leaves almost no one paying real consequences for their actions and even contradict what you have supposedly known the entire movie.

This was just plain pathetic. I'm disappointed in humanity that this is considered an acclaimed movie. July 19, 2008

Interesting and it kept my attention

No big review here, just that it was interesting and involved 4 separate yet linked events going on around the globe. Brad Pitt more angry than concerned of his wife being shot while Cate Blanchett didn't really get to do much acting, besides laying there. The kids in the village were the key to the movie.
July 14, 2008

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