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Babel [Blu-ray]
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3.5 (389 reviews)
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4Man, I cried so much...what is wrong with me?
1A true stinker!
5Memorable film
50%We're All Related
10%There is a benefit for those who watched it!
31%Not for the squeamish
10%save your money
40%Connected stories with an amazing span
51%It Is Indeed A Small World
40%3.5 stars out of 4
41%A coherent, impressive, well-made, insightful piece of work...
10%Stinks
3A modern interrelation of events
5Another Gem from the guys that made Amores Perros and 21 Grams.
4A suprisingly good movie
30%Babel - Blu-ray vs HD DVD
10%A long movie about nothing
10%If you like stupid movies about stupid people, watch this one.
51%THE MOST BRILLIANT FILM OF THE CENTURY SO FAR...!
20%"Babel" - left wing Hollywood does it again
11%Awful
11%CONFUSING
11%What was good about this?
41%Interesting and it kept my attention
21%What the hell was that?
11%Bad things happen to stupid people
30%IT'S ONLY ME, BUT:
31%Beautiful images but CARDBOARD CHARACTERS
40%ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU, OPUS 3
51%Unpleasant and Great Movie
30%Three interesting stories combined into on so so film
50%Saw it at the movies, had to buy the DVD
20%Depressing
41%Pretty well done, but could've been better
10%Aptly named Babel
41%It was my fault! I did it! not my brother!
41%Great movie
21%what did we miss
20%Shallow movie expoits moralistic tendencies...
31%Boring, but thought-provoking
30%Ah, If Only...
41%Undeniably powerful; a film that will move you to action...
5Amazing Film.
30%Interesting--but highly flawed--Cinema
10%Absolutely painful
20%Great performances, crappy movie
51%Three Stories, Four Families
41%Wasn't what I thought it would be but was interesting and Brad Pitt was gorgeous!
51%Best motion picture 2006
31%A sequel to Crash.
5plain awesome
11%Babel or Babble
5Superb Acting
11%Worst film ever
21%Babel
31%Solala
11%Don't waste your time
11%Been waiting 36 years for this
51%Should have won the Oscar for Best Picture
41%Babel
51%An excellent story of miscommunication
51%Harsh and Authentic
51%Shattered Glass
40%Babel
41%One of the best "feel bad" movies of all time
21%Not appropriate for classroom learning
5one of the best movies of last year
51%Very enjoyable film.
20%One for the kids
41%Very emotional movie
41%decent movie
31%Not so good....not so bad
31%Pretty good
51%like a Greek tragedy
10%What? Blah Blah Blah. What? Blah Blah Blah.
21%Forgettable and Far Too Self-Important
51%A brilliant movie
11%Worst from Iñarritu
41%Six degrees
21%Vidas Perros
30%"Babel": Well-Acted, But Too Convoluted
41%"Apparently some terrorist killed and American tourist"
4Quality Product
31%"The Rifle"
31%Goes off on a tangent
10%Avoid this movie like the plague
41%haha... someone said crash with a transport...
50%Great Plot
41%Brilliant !
50%Babel
11%good scenes, good acting, but BAD movie
20%"Crash" with a passport
51%A Very Real Set of Stories
31%Some plot holes, but still a good film
51%Open your eyes, and your ears!
41%Thoughtful commentary on an increasingly troubled world.
11%Yawn........
41%Top notch acting by the "second tier" actors
50%Extrordinaria
31%Interconnections
41%A subtle intelligent and emotional story
31%Story is full of blahs, acting is great
21%Mish mush
10%Dry
41%A powerful (but not concise) film
31%Farce
30%It is not about communications, it is about stupidity
10%Horrid
51%Definitely worth watching!
51%See BABEL. Reflect, meditate, be concerned. It is a GREAT Film.
10%The title says it al
51%Emotionally moving and jarring
21%"Babel" Collapses Under Its Own Weight
51%It feels so real, such a great flick, one of the tops in 2006...
31%Not bad but not good
41%A Multi-Cultural Allegory for Man's Inability to Communicate
10%I don't understand all the holaah about this garbage
10%BABEL
50%Great Movie - Great Thriller
50%A must
50%Amazing
51%A must see
51%Near Master Work
31%Not All It's Cracked Up To Be
21%Overrated
51%A complicated, satisfying film, but not for everyone
41%Great drama!
20%Sophisticated...too sophisticated!
51%Babel- excellent as it sounds
10%Even Brad Pitt didn't save this movie
40%Babel a good mexican movie to enjoy.
11%Very Slow
10%Don't show this to your kids!
20%A "Tower" of Needless Scenes, Poor Characterization, and No Point
51%Fewer than six degrees of separation
40%Babel
20%265,899 Degress of Separation : A Lab Experiment Gone Wrong
21%What was the point?
31%Good ensemble story; still left hanging
31%Four stories. Three countries. One film
31%oh my, arent we important?
21%Babble
11%Babel - Not worth the plastic of the DVD
31%A CONFUSION OF SOUNDS OR VOICES
41%It's all in the symbolism
31%Leaning Tower of Babel
41%It's a small world after all.
11%Rent it, don't buy it, and then fast forward.
5An enlightening and mesmerizing film!
31%It's ok...it's not that brilliant!
41%Alejandro González Iñárritu's Rifle Shot
31%Poor Decisions Are Universal to All Cultures
41%Scattered to the four corners of the world
30%Did not live up to the hype
51%Thoughtful and compelling, this movie will linger with you
51%A Must See
11%What happens when non-white people make bad decisions
21%Bash on Americans- Again
31%emerald33
51%Some good ethnographic filmmaking along with a strong indictment of US xenophobia
30%crash is better
20%huh?
10%A Poor DVD
10%Brain Damage
11%Don.t waste your time
31%Three Continents, Four Stories Intersect
41%Highly Entertaining Overall
40%Not Brad Pitt....Bad Pritt
21%Stupid Is as Stupid Does
41%"...a film that will challenge your senses" JC Angelcraft
20%Disappointed
40%An excellent movie...
10%Aptly named
41%Had huge expectations...
51%Cultures clash. There are misunderstandings. Just like real life.
51%Not the singers but the song
21%Puzzle for Kids or to be understand listen what you want to listen
40%Very intense drama about the frustrations of life.
51%Babel is a towering achievement
11%Don't believe the Hype.....
11%Babel ...You will never get the 3 hours back!
51%Babel - Incredible Movie
50%Sould have been best picture
51%I was mesmerized.
21%Richly shot movie but what is the message or story?
21%pretentious and shallow
41%Well-acted, very tense movie.
41%Iñárritu tackles another amazing film
51%The Tower of Babel
51%Great piece of Cinema
11%Defective HD-DVD
11%Murphy's Law + some decent camera work = 2.5 boring hours
10%Another smart movie
11%When bad things happen to stupid people
11%Waste of Time
40%Not a bad movie
41%Ordinary people in circumstances beyond their control
51%A Place I Do not Care to go to
51%Solid and Thought Provoking
10%awful
40%Babel
50%Different! it makes you feel what the characters are feeling!
50%babel
51%Pure art!
20%This movie wasnt that bad but I wouldnt watch it again.
10%Pointless Drivel
40%BABEL Preview
50%Lives up to the hype.
40%Huh?
31%Good...but not his best.
50%Engrossing, takes many creative risks, anti-gun
51%A Global "Crash"
30%Put the [...] back on please.
31%"Why Did We Come Here?" ~ Confusion, Conflict, Chaos & Connection In A Harsh And Alienated World
41%Yikes,don't get up and wander much during this one.
21%Stupid characters ruin the rest of it
11%Another one of 'those'
41%Review for 'Babel'
11%Need to be angry at wasting your money--buy this
30%Babel
41%Mesmorizing
21%Well shot, poorly plotted
10%Improbable story about stupid people
41%Well enough
21%On Tivo: Not the widescreen version!
11%Snore. Snore. What? Oh, did I doze off there?
11%Brad Pitt's MASTERPIECE
51%Great to ponder on
41%A Labyrinth of Emotional Turmoil
51%Excellent!
20%If an American made this, it would be called racist
51%One of the Best Films of the Year
50%La mejor pelicula del año.
41%Some comments to the bad reviews
11%Depressing, boring, slow
51%Thought-provoking
41%Just like "Crash" but on a global scale...
51%Ingenius, Heart wrenching and powerful.
11%Most overhyped movie in history!!!
51%Definitely Pitt's best - and a superb movie - and about the DVD version
21%Some decent concepts that are dumped into drudgery
51%The Best Movie of 2006
51%Babel = miscommunication, missed communication, striving for connection
11%What a joke
11%I give it an F-
50%Should have won the oscar for best picture!
41%Harrowing adult drama -- great acting but poor DVD features
50%superlative flick
11%One of the worst films I've ever seen
20%Not as good as its predecessors
40%Good Movie but Im Confused??
30%Pretty good movie...but not for all
41% The Need for Cultural Literacy and Understanding
51%Ignore the people who didn't like this movie;rent it now!
31%Solid but slow and somewhat unsatisfying
51%One of the best movies I've seen in a long time
11%Second Worst Movie That I Have Ever Watched
51%Babel is no bubble
31%Babel: A Long Strange Trip
10%One of the worst movies I've seen in a long time.
50%Communication is a wonderful thing...
51%We need more films like this.
21%Bordering on Child Pornography
10%Self-indulgent and irrelevant
10%file it in the round file
10%BORING! ONE OF THE WORST FILMS OF 2006
31%Decent drama, intersting way of storytelling
41%Powerful Multi-Character Narrative
11%Confusing and Boring
30%Not great a bit vulgar
10%Deeply Disappointed
51%Universal Understanding
40%"6 degrees of separation" via a bullet
10%Really Bad Movie
51%An Oscar-winning masterpiece with a lingering power
50%THIS SHOULD HAVE WON BEST PICTURE
5Sure to be a classic.
10%Definition of "babel"
50%A winner! Una ganadora!
31%An Actor's Movie
51%A powerful film with riveting performances by all of its actors!
41%Babel is a good movie but it is missing something.
11%NO STARS FROM ME AT ALL-SORRY
21%Contrived Melodrama
21%Wildly overrated by film critics
50%Brilliant and thought provoking
10%HD DVD is broken
10%This is a horrible movie
20%Hard to stay awake...
20%BORING
40%Lack of Languages Gets Deadly
41%Interesting journey
31%Risk taking that comes up short
11%Dishonest
10%Babel
51%BABEL: A Look at Priorities in the Global Village
20%Huh?
41%Babel
10%Over hyped Crapola !
11%A film about anguish
30%Superbly acted, beautifully executed...
20%Please Shoot Me As Well
11%How do I hate this movie? Let me count the ways....
51%Music and then Silence echoe deep in the tower of Babel
41%One of the biggest surprises of 2006
50%Obviously an excellent film.
20%Not bad...But not great...
51%Amazingly painful journey
31%Interesting...But Emotionally Pointless
10%Horrible
40%Humanity as a Series of Relationships
10%Confusing, disjointed, pointless
51%one bullet can effect everyone
51%one of the year's most satisfying pictures
11%How does such mediocrity get 7 Academy Nominations?
11%Life Is Hard, Then You Die
51%One Brick More in the Rebuilding of the Tower of Babel
51%You'll probably either love or hate this movie. My take: One of 2006's best
41%Aggrandizing Cinematic Brilliance
20%!!!!!!!!!!BORING!!!!!!!!!!
50%NOT a Crash rip-off.
51%globalized greek tragedy
20%This Year's Crash (Not a good thing)
41%Intense
10%Don't bother...
30%great editing, mediocre stories
10%well made film, depressing, pointless movie
40%More Reasons To Enforce Gun Control
30%simply running out of ideas.
51%The wilderness of silence, selfishness and intolerance!
20%Extremely overrated
51%A Great example of what film should be.
21%Manipulative, Heavy-Handed, And Simply Made No Sense
20%Smut for Art's Sake
51%Babel
41%Four stories condensed into one
51%A tragic tale of understanding
30%Melodramatic, Manipulative, Cliched, and Swiss Cheesy
11%After much thought, deliberation, and reading of reviews good and bad, I think this is the absolute worst movie I have ever seen
41%drama with a kick
51%This years Crash
51%Complex, Stunning and Riveting
40%Christian Themes
51%Tragedy in Translation
41%Are You Listening?
41%Characters With Communication Problems
30%An interesting excersise
40%See this movie on the big screen!
10%A poor movie - with stars just to get you to go
51%some room for a happy end in the future
40%Good not Great
51%The Power of Communication
51%Best Picture of the Year
51%An excellent movie with a timely message
5The Tragedy of Divisions
50%The Entirety of Human Experience
51%Keeps You Engaged
51%Maybe Not The Significant Document Of Our Time It Hopes To Be--But Riveting Drama Nonetheless
40%excellent film bound to make you feel bad
50%among the best of 2006
50%"Babel" Is Not Babble
50%True ART!!
50%Globalization destroys all ethical frames
5Extraordinary
11%Lost in Translation
30%Disappointing Effort By A Potentially Great Director
51%Babel Is Compelling Filmmaking About Isolation & How Our Cultural Barriers Create Conflict And Friction In The World
50%Towering "Babel"
41%Butterfly Wings
51%Brilliant Analysis of the Power of the Media, Authority and the Silent Image
5No less complex than life
10%all spoilers/ do not read any further if you don't want to know what happens!
31%Is This The Future of Cinema?
51%Extremely Provocative Omnibus Film Shows Our Indispensable Need to Connect
40%Interesting Story and Good Performances Compensate for the Mistakes
41%BABEL's Microcosm of the World
40%A convergence of bad choices
5Global Coincidences Tied Brilliantly Together in a Stunning Film
51%The best film this year
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