Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Michael Fuchs The movie takes painstaking care to portray humanity at its worst. With thespian scenes, set camera and no movement, the unlucky viewer is led through a series of mostly disconnected tragedies of the mundane and less mundane life, with the actors generally mostly half-way to their grave both in agility and complexion. Lacking respect of death and the dying, death, greed, cruelty, slavery, torture, poverty, heart-break, loneliness, depression, suicide, war, grief. There is no character development, no hope, no love, no colour. In a regrettably dystopian image of a world, Andersson is treating the audience to misery and despair, without bothering with too much imagination. Attempts of understated comedian expression repeatedly fall flat. The end credits come as a relief from utter boredom.

Martin Bradley The third part of what writer/director Roy Andersson calls a trilogy about 'being a human being', "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence" is even more like a sketch-show than its predecessor "You the Living". The various scenes are tenuously linked without amounting to what you might call a plot and like Andersson's earlier work marks him out both as a classic surrealist as well as a humorist of the first rank. Yes, "A Pigeon Sat on a Bench Reflecting on Existence" is genuinely very funny though you may need a very dry, (and dark), sense of humor to get its jokes, and speaking of jokes, Andersson's claim that it's about being a human being may be one of them since the human beings in this movie may not be quite like anyone you know.

Bernardis Adela I am patient with a lot of misunderstood movies, I give credit for intentions when I see at least something good in them, and I even see and enjoy the aesthetic of the ugly in some, even if otherwise unwatchable, but this movie has the only 1/10 rating that I ever gave so far. And this review is the very first one I ever make, it forced me to break the barrier because of the abundant dullness and pretentiousness it transpired. I am not a fan of plays, and acting on a stage but I watched Birdman, and even if it wasn't on my taste as a theme, I couldn't just not give it credit for the plot, characters, camera movements, charisma, and so on. But this movie, "A pigeon...." is distinctively boring, dull, depressing. It was probably made for a very small hipster /critics niche in audience. If i try really hard I can say that the 1 point/10 rating that I gave it(which is too much anyway) is for the relatively good visual quality it had. I did not like the dull characters, there was no solid story,(though I could understand some points the director wanted to make with it), there were too many long scenes, too many quiet moments, too many random scenes with no relevance to each other, the whole movie sets looked way too simple and "artsy", the insinuations of animal cruelty and racism were outrageous. This was MY opinion of this movie, and whoever decides to say that I am wrong, well...good for them...They are also entitled to their opinion, and I am glad they didn't feel like they lost their time. But this is what I have to say about it: It was an absurd movie with no coherency, and with nothing interesting to say that is of any relevance. P.S. And about the "art" factor... I have lived most of my life in this domain, both doing art and seeing it, and this movie has failed to suggest art in the slightest, to me.I definitely not recommend .

HedgehoginPS If Ingmar Bergman had directed the Monty Python crew through a script by August Strindberg and story boards by Edvard Munch, this is the film that might have resulted. Billed as a comedy, it produces the occasional chuckle, but humorous it isn't. A surreal Nordic allegory, as suggested by other reviewers, it might possibly be, but one would have to sit through it several times to extract that degree of narrative intent. I think I wouldn't have the patience. One can imagine that Swedes would find it much more meaningful, and funnier, than Americans for possessing the cultural context upon which the film clearly depends. There are a lot of subtleties of history, social mores, and such that get lost in translation.One has to hope that the eponymous pigeon's existence is less dreary than the lives of the film's characters, or the writer's vision of the world. The DP and Art Director seem to have been a gleefully willing accomplices in the whole thing, however. The staging and photography are at times positively brilliant.