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.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

jexline Atom Egoyan's "Ararat", my fourth film from the auteur is a very well-written, well-acted film detailing the Armenian Genocide from different perspectives. Raffi (David Alpay) is the son of art historian and expert on Arshille Gorky, Ani, played by Arsinee Khanjian. He is sleeping with his stepsister and is stopped by a Canadian customers officer David(Christopher Plummer) coming back from a trip to Turkey with a film can, although not wanting to show the contacts of the case. Edward Saroyan (Charles Aznavour) is making a film about the genocide. Plummer's son Martin (Bruce Greenwood) is playing the main role in Aznavour's films, which also features his lover Ali (Elias Koteas). Another man, Rouben (Eric Bognosian) acts as the middle man between Khanjian and Aznavour. The film features a great many of Egoyan's troupe of actors (wife Khanjian, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas) and has a large number of themes from his other films (customs officers, incestual relationships, heritage), but conveys it poorly in comparison to his earlier films. In his earlier films, he focused on character's motivations and enigmatic plots. Now he seems to focus on religion and heritage, which I suppose is the kind of film he wants to make. I personally prefer his earlier puzzle films myself ("The Adjuster" and "Exotica" being prime examples).The acting is very good. Khanjian is good in every role she's done and you never think she got the role just because she's married to Egoyan. Bruce Greenwood and Elias Koteas (who played nemesis' in "Exotica") make great lovers. Christopher Plummer carries a strong presence and a contrast to the other characters in his role. Alpay conveys youth and innocence very well, as well as hiscestuous relationship with Celia (Maria-Josee Croze).Overall, a well-done film, but don't expect anything close to his earlier films. 7/10

Ruben Malayan (RubenMalayan) I am sad to admit that Ararat is a cinematographic failure. The only scenes which I enjoyed were of Archile Gorky's played by incredible Simon Abkarian. The storyline is confusing and disorienting, "movie inside the movie" concept is very hard to pull off even for a accomplished filmmakers and Egoyan fails miserably at that. I find it difficult to watch how actors such as Plummer and Aznavour struggle to believe their lines and I don't blame them. The script is just bad. I wanted to show this film to some of my friends who are not Armenian and know little about the genocide, but after watching it twice myself, I realized they will not learn anything from it. One day a film will come out about the Armenian genocide which will touch people's hearts and fight Turkish propaganda machine at the same time. Ararat of Egoyan fails at both.

Armand About past. About its murders. The silence is only solution. Or the words with dust taste. A crime, few stories, a people and the fear. And the gestures of present. Past like present. History as continuous struggle. "Ararat" is a testimony. And a poem. More didacticist. Too cold. Theatral and subjective. It is a manifest. It is a demonstration and lesson and accusation and page of chronicle. The life of a people like a chain. The existence of an artist as root of subtle and eternal accusation. In fact, a film about a man who believe in his memories like in a religion. For who the time has one nuances, one voice, one face. It is not an anti-Turkish film. It is not the story of Armenocide. The story of Saroyan may be of Romanians, Georgians or Jews. It is a piece of East. A story of a petrified space of Europe, for who present is part of huge past. A film as a isle. Or desert. Or evening. The silhouettes. The silence. The night. The new day.

smilebuddha I am not in any way Armenian or Turkish, nor do I have any relations with Armenians or Turks. However, I believe that this was an excellent movie and do not see the need for anger or offense to a movie. Yes, there may not be historical or political support or reference, and substantial evidence is not provided for every claim to truth in the movie. That becomes irrelevant though, once you consider that this movie may be based from an emotional standpoint and political and historical propaganda was not the purpose. It must also be taken into consideration that it is, in the end, a MOVIE, which is a form of media notorious for distorting facts and presenting biased opinions.