Alicia I love this movie so much

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

vladp6 I rarely review films. But this time I'm going to do that. The film is bad, really bad. I can hardly call it a film at all. Those who give praises and high ratings to this film should be put in that school as a sacrifice for wasting our time. There is absolutely nothing watchable, nothing happens until the last 10 minutes of the film. Believe me, what you are going to watch is just a first- or third-person walk along the corridors of the school. Camera on a shoulder of an operator follows one person walking from behind for 5 minutes, then another person for 5 minutes. Most of the time these persons are silent, sometimes they give comments, sometimes they meet someone and the camera switches to someone else. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens. Why there are so positive reviews, what people like in this film is beyond my comprehension. After 10 minutes of this torture, I've already wanted to switch it off, but then I thought may be there will be something else, may be the characters will start acting or at least talking, it couldn't be that people give 7.2 rating for nothing! Another 10 minutes of walking along the corridors of the school, now the same scenes and same walking but with different people, scenes started to repeat themselves. I've started feeling like someone was fooling me into watching this camera play. Another 10 minutes of walking the same corridors again and again made me angry. I've eventually fast forwarded to the last 15 minutes to see what's all this fuss about. After suffering 5 minutes of the same walking, two students bought guns and armour on-line, received them by post, kissed each other in a shower, dressed like rembos and went shooting everyone in that school, just for fun, as they said to each other. I couldn't understand their motives, because the creators of this "film" did not care about any plot and about making the characters to talk. So, do you want to tell me that just because of the last 10 minutes of heartless shooting everyone in the school this film is worse 7.2 rating???

Chihiro Elephant, is a movie that introduce us to some high school students. We can see an ordinary routine school day through some of the students point. Two of them have something different in their mind! So, they have a plan to make this usual day unusual.There's so much hate for this movie and I get it. It's an very slow movie, but it's worth watching, especially if you like art. Directing is great, very beautiful scenes. Camera work is wonderful, long scene shots made me feel like I was not watching the movie, I was in the movie and I'm walking around like I was invisible.I wasn't satisfied with dialogue though. Some bad dialogs, It would have been better to have some deeper dialogs. Also, acting wasn't good enough. I got this feeling that even the couple there had some distance. Even when the talk to each other, they don't feel as comfortable as couples are.Overall, I liked this movie, it was very artistic with great camera work.

nicks_picks Where to start with this film; this film tries to be artistic and the director wants people to know that his style of directing is art. It isn't. It's annoying. Not only that, but the film is so dull and has little to character development. The director throws together all these characters and their problems and tries to make the audience feel sympathetic for these characters: it didn't work. If they wanted to make the audience feel more sympathetic, less camera shots and more dialogue. Another thing that bothers me is the two shooters, Alex and Eric. They are technically the real stars of this movie, but yet they don't really have much development and there isn't much evidence shown in the film to show that they are bullied victims. In fact the only scene that we see bullying is in the classroom, and yet, that's the only time we'll ever see that happen again. Acting is not too bad, but it's not good either. Overall, not a good film.

Red_Identity Seriously. I didn't read any summary at all because I like going into films blind, and so I didn't know what this would turn into. Basically, follow several characters for an hour so when they start getting killed you care for them. I've never seen another film do this sort of thing in such a sheerly infuriating way. Films like this can either work of fall flat, or can work in its aim and make you still hate them. I guess Van Sant succeeded, but that doesn't mean it's good filmmaking. It just feels like blatant exploitation, one of the biggest instances of emotional manipulation that I've ever seen. I feel like this could've been done in a way that was still impactful without going for cheap shocks, and this does go for them. If you want proof, just look at the Benny scene near the end. I'm sure many love this or admire it, but I can't. Something about it is cruel, and it extends beyond what's just on screen. I cannot dismiss it entirely though, since it succeeded in getting under my skin... but at what cost?