TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Kirpianuscus a love story. or only a war story. in fact, both. not as two parts of a single story but as mixed sides. because its virtue is to be an old fashion story. comfortable in a specific way. seductive in each aspect. it is one of films who gives the flavor and the colors of a world. in delicate and touching manner. one of many stories about her and him, about the other, about the unexpected event and about the truth as a fragile building, after decades. and this does "Closing the Ring" more than a Hallmark film. but a sort o rediscover of personal memories about similar facts and meets and decisions.

antoniotierno This wasn't a successful movie at all. A love story aimed at an older audience, the kind of movie watchers preferring exposition to explosions. It can be defined a quality World War II drama that deserves to be more just another TV broadcast. The promise is the kind that might seem overly melodramatic if heard in a movie set in contemporary times but it is at home with the wartime realities so effectively rendered in Closing the Ring. Attenborough is a past master at this type of drama and shifts a lot between the decades, avoiding the confusion so common to non-linear films like this. The resemblance between the younger and older actors isn't striking, but their performances make this a minor issue.

Danielle I really wanted to like this movie, which I saw on video recently, several years after its theatrical release. I'm a sucker for a romance, but even I found this overly sentimental. I thought the acting was terrific and the casting was genius - having Christopher Plummer and Shirley McLaine played as youngsters by Gregory Smith (from Everwood) and Misha Barton improved the somewhat uneven movie and made it more watchable than it would have been. I liked the way the mystery played out - I liked that the audience had to piece things together. But once you knew what had happened, it wasn't as satisfying as I had hoped. I also found the IRA violence in the modern story strange and out of place - sort of confusing and unnecessary in a movie that was already fairly complicated. Overall it was a pretty affecting romance and family drama about love and forgiveness and all that good stuff, but not quite as good as it could have been.

lastliberal For the life of me, I cannot figure how this got in my queue. I almost sent it back without watching, but there must have been a reason I put it there.Yes, Sir Richard Attenborough has made a lot of good films (Ghandi, Cry Freedom, Chaplain). Maybe this will be one of them. There are a lot of good actors here: Christopher Plummer, Neve Campbell, and Pete Postlethwaite, to name a few.Maybe it was to see Mischa Barton ("The O.C."), who played Shirley MacLaine's character as a young girl. We got a nice view when she was getting it on with Teddy (Stephen Amell). We get a full view later on when he is leaving for gunnery school.The story takes place in the present, when Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) has just buried Chuck (David Alpay), and 50 years prior at the dawn of WWII, when Chucck and Teddy (Stephen Amell) were heading off to war.A young boy (Martin McCann) has just found a rind belonging to Teddy and Ethel Ann at a B-17 crash site that Quinlan (Pete Postlethwaite) has been digging up. He has to get away from the IRA, so he brings it to America.Ethel Ann goes back with him to Belfast and finds love for the first time in 50 years.It was an excellent story. I was surprised, thinking it would be a Lifetime special, but the actors in it made it special.