Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

obeys I hate to give a NOE movie any less then an 8 rating. Especially a movie like this, that is so unique. But boy was it way to long to enjoy. The excitement and fascination just got kinda choked out of me while watching. Which is a shame. because there is a masterpiece in there. And on that note a shout out to "short" art-house films like "Daft Punk's Electroma" and "The Tracy Fragments".

mokono Gaspar Noe seeks to impress - and that he does. A sensory experience, mainly with flashing lights and bright colors - from the city, from the drug trips and from the strip clubs and motels the movie takes us to. It's a relatively simple story, once you remove the flash and ignore most of the resurrection/drug culture going on - which is fairly superficial anyway. The intensity of the emotions and experiences of the orphans is really what makes the movie worth watching for me - you can feel they've had a disturbing life - deep in your guts. Which then becomes sort of OK - as you see them coming to terms with death and what comes next - things happened as pretty much every character in the movie is broken - the trip somehow providing closure to all involved. After going through all of it, you might ask yourself if we really needed more than 2 hours to go through all of this. All part of the experience?

Minos Turn off the lights, lock your eyes on the screen and be dazed. This brutally honest visualization of life will burn itself into your head. Gaspar Noé has made a movie like no other i have seen before. The closest comparison may be "2001: A Space Odyssey", yet incredibly this movie even transcends Kubricks nauseating travel through space and time. "Enter the Void" has not a single traditional shot, but slowly floats through life and death of the main protagonist, flashing at you its neon lights and taking you through grimy streets. It is, as the movie proclaims itself, "the greatest trip of all", and leaves drug-filled Tokyo as flickering backdrop, while exposing the viewer to every harsh, brutal, sexual, desperate, panicked, euphoric and dirty facet of life. There is no hiding from the imagery presented, no pretending, no being above it. As foreign and shocking as the life shown may be to you, it is entirely human, entirely real. What aspects you will take away from this experience i can not tell you, but there are many moments to ponder, many traumas to relate to. Ultimately, what ties "Enter the Void" to movies you have seen before, is the overarching idea of life and death. The human spirit transcending any individual life. A message tackled before, but never before delivered so shockingly honest."Enter the Void" is a great, great work of art. Be open to experience something uncomfortable, shocking and unfamiliar, and you'll be rewarded with a life lesson you will never forget.

GregForstner It's a Noé so one viewer expectation will certainly be fulfilled: this is anything but conventional. It's a 2,5-hour-roller-coaster ride that floods the viewer with hypnotizing pictures, mind-boggling sceneries, mesmerizing colors. Be prepared for a camera panning and swerving as wildly and turbulently as you will have rarely experienced in any other movie. Be prepared for a narrative perspective that is unique in that the main protagonist is killed off the stage after about 25 minutes. Be prepared for a story that virtually dissolves itself into myriads of fragments. Be prepared for an organic study of life and death, love and hate, the power of the libido that is both profound as it is elusive……. "Enter the Void" is an art movie, even more so than Noé's previous masterpiece "Irreversible" in which the story is told backwards: "Irreversible" showed the fragility of life with savage ferocity: one false decision (taking that underpass) can lead to a moment that destroys several lives. The peaceful bliss of two lovers is shattered when the woman is violently raped and mistreated, an atrocious act of inhumanity that sparks an unbelievably brutal revenge. Some of the topics of "Irreversible" are picked up in this movie and dealt with in a more philosophical, subliminal way. "Enter the Void" does not revert to the savage violence that shocked audiences in Noé's previous film but this one is yet another movie that dares to go to places where few other directors would go.The plot with major spoilers ahead: a youthful American called Oscar lives with his sister Linda in Tokyo. He makes his living as a drug dealer and he himself likes drugs quite a lot. His sister spends her evenings in night clubs where she is stripping. One night, Oscar is betrayed by a friend and the police are after him. He is fatally shot but his soul won't leave this world, because he has promised his sister to never leave her…..This basically is it: the audience has to digest the (anti-)hero's demise after 25 minutes. This is an unprecedented move: the main protagonist is condemned to the same passivity as the viewers. He is cut off from the realm of acting and interacting and changing the direction of fate – as bodiless soul he is hovering above the actions and his attempts at reincarnation are misguided: even as he returns to his body, his former friends and relatives won't accept he is alive because they know that he died. Just as in "Irreversible" the direction of fate cannot be changed, the past cannot be undone….The narrative concept of "Enter the Void" is also stunning in its abolition of chronology: when Oscar dies, the narrative dissolves: there is no past and present and future. The spectators are plunged into Oscar's consciousness in which present events trigger memories from the past that he subsequently lives through again. Thus, the viewer learns what defines the special relationship between himself and his sister: when they were still young children, they lost their parents in a terrible car accident. Afterwards he promised his sister that he would never leave her. Countless images of the eternal love for his sister occupy his mind, intercut with quite different manifestations of love that accumulate in the final visit of the "House of Love" in the last chapter of the movie. Like all of Noé's movies, this one is highly existential: it is a movie created at the intersection of life and death, the intersection of love and hate, the intersection of unremitting sexual desire and shrill jealousy. It probes into the very questions that define human existence: What constitutes human life? Why are we here and what are we supposed to do? Can we change as individuals and what does death change? Are we independent actors of our faith or are we not rather governed by forces that we cannot begin to understand? While "Irreversible" gave rather concrete answers, "Enter the Void" is elusive, highly allusive and effervescent. It takes its time exploring the most challenging subjects without providing clear answers. Every viewer has to arrive at their own answers while experiencing and afterwards reflecting this piece of art. Yes, it is a veritable statement of art that Noé has submitted with this one. This is NOT a movie for viewers who want to consume films to pass the time and entertain themselves. With its seemingly endless roller-coaster rides through colors, patterns and its exhibitionistic display of sexuality, this is a film for cineastes and those who are seeking a broader understanding of the forces that steer human life.