Pluskylang Great Film overall

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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

betty dalton Your life is in a rudd. You lie to your boss, all inspiration for the job you once loved is gone and your wife has passed away. You are just going through the motions. That is what David Jenkins is facing who got an oscar nomination for his excellent performance. Nothing happens in his life. A glass of wine is the highlight of his day, sitting alone in his house. Untill he accidentally gets involved in the lives of 2 illegal immigrants who fire up his life in unexpected ways.David Jenkins feelings are portrayed with such delicacy that you must admire the director for these subtle choices. The whole movie breathes a feeling of the sweetest melancholy further enlightened by a gorgeous soundtrack and luminous photography. When a director can make a boring and solitary man look human and caring then you have made a real gem. It is such a truly caring movie that I get goosebumps writing about it...

Thanos Karagioras "The Visitor" is a movie which has to do with a man who has a house in New York but he does not leave there and he had a long time to return to it. When he returns due to a conference he find a couple living into it and we watch what is going on and what will happen next. Also we observe how this will affect the relationship between those people and how this will happen when they decide to move in together.I liked this movie because it shows us how three different people affect one to each other and how this relationship works with the passage of time. I also liked this movie because of the interpretation of Richard Jenkins who plays as Walter the man who wants to attend a conference and I also liked the interpretation of Haaz Sleiman who plays as Tarek one person of the couple who moved in the apartment of Walter.Finally I have to say that "The Visitor" is a really nice movie and I believe that it had to give us many things about the relationships between people and how these affect the personalities of them.

argo0403 Walter, an old professor,  goes to NY where he used to live for attending the presentation. However, a couple lives in his apartment. The Visitor is a human drama that is slow-pacing but gradually delivers emotion.My mother recommended this to me and I  egan to watch but at first, I don't feel sympathy for Walter because he looks solemn and spiritless.  However, as this movie goes, he becomes attractive.  Tarek, one half of the couple plays an African dram and Walter starts playing it. I'm very impressive with this.  Through meeting him, Walter finds a hobby and changes.I've learned three things from The Visitor.  First one is that running across someone changes our life. In this movie, it's Walter and the couple.Second is about issues of immigrants.  Because of trifling thing, Tarek gets arrested and forced to exile. I think after 9.11, U.S. government becomes restrict for immigrants. I'm sad about this problem.  I hope there will be a country every ethnic lives free.Last is Richard Jenkins. This is the biggest fruition. Honestly speaking, I don't like him so much before watching this. Perhaps its because of the characters that he've played. I didn't feel any sympathy or attraction with him at that time. However, this time, I became a big fan of him! He seems ordinary but actually, he isn't. Now, I find it his special ability.In spite of these good points, there're some disappointing things. The relationship between Walter and Tarek's mother is unnecessary. And, it's a little bit slow-pacing. If I were sleepy, I would sleep during watching this.But as a human drama, it's well-made and   enough to be satisfied.  Especially, I do like the scene that Walter plays the dram. Though it's amusing somewhat, it also brings his passion to audience. The last scene is really moving.

Alex Heaton (azanti0029) I have followed the career of Richard Jenkins since I saw him play a grieving father to Jodie Foster in the little seen American baseball / rites of passage film 'Stealing Home'. He is an actor who commands some presence and lends a certain level of earnest emotion in any role he inhabits.He here plays Walter, a widowed college lecturer who has settled into his a mundane routine as his twilight years beckon. He is writing a book he will never finish and fails to connect sympathetically with any of students but has his comfortable order interrupted when he is asked to present a paper he barely co-authored in New York, giving him cause to visit his small apartment he owns. On arriving he finds it occupied by two illegal immigrants, Tarek and Zaniab (Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira) They leave willingly, but Walter takes sympathy on them and asks them to stay. She makes Jewellery at a stall in New York and he gets by using his African drum in local gigs. It's a meagre existence, but their humbleness endears them to Walter who does his best to help them when their lives are shattered by Tarek being faced with deportation. His mother, Mouna arrives to offer her support, with a well measured performance by Hiam Abbas. As the situation for Tarek becomes increasingly hopeless, Walter and Mouna form a tender friendship and romance beckons but so does reality.'The Visitor' is a simple film that beautifully observes the tensions and difficulties among the immigrant population of America in the post 9/11 world. Not all actors can write a great script, but clearly McCarthy can and if the performances are anything to go by he is clearly an actors director to. Everyone here is on great form, but the four leads are all exceptional, Gurira especially is a bottle of corked emotion clearly seen on screen in her visceral and brooding role, but its Jenkins here that shows all too clearly why he should have been trusted with a leading role a long time ago. Let's hope we see more of him for the remainder of his career. This is a beautifully observed film about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances who meet by chance. McCathy may well be America's own Mike Leigh. Fans of his and Ken Loach will find much to enjoy here.