Wordiezett So much average

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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

Leofwine_draca DANTE 01 is the bastard offspring of ALIEN 3, an unusual science fiction flick set on a prison ship fulled to the brim with bald criminals. This dialogue-lite story features a newcomer to the mix, played with kooky relish by Lambert Wilson (THE MATRIX RELOADED), who soon shows himself to have strange, Christ-like powers after an encounter with an alien race. Unfortunately for him, his presence on the ship soon leads to rioting and all-out anarchy...This cautionary tale is an all-out religious parable in which subtlety is non-existent. It's also a very odd film and one which doesn't really have any entertainment value whatsoever. It takes the old, odd, bald guys from ALIEN 3 and doesn't really do anything with them except for having them act in increasingly weird ways. People like Dominique Pinon certainly look the part but they don't really have characters and the narrative seems to just shuffle from one scene to the next with no rhyme nor reason.Annoyingly, the director is obsessed with inserting clumsy CGI effects into his film, effects which purportedly show some magical processes happening inside the human body, but these effects are extremely dodgy and the brief snippets of gore don't really add much either. The non-existent ending, in which the production team apparently ran out of budget so that they had to stop shooting, is a case in point of how frustrating this misfire is.

Dante 02 (this is spoiler-free) I count "Delicatessen" and "La Cite des Enfants Perdus" as some of my favorite movies of all time. Interestingly, I didn't know Caro had directed this and watched it by accident. I therefore didn't have any expectations set, but in theory it should have been a good surprise.Well, it wasn't. I heard the movie was released with zero press and that Caro disowned it, blaming the editing. Not surprised one bit - it's a terrible movie indeed and I'm flabbergasted someone like Caro could be behind it.The storyline is laughable - leave your brains at the door please. The ending in particular is just pathetic - it's as if they had run out of ideas and came up with the most ridiculous deus ex machina of all time. I was left gob-smacked for all the wrong reasons.Worst of all, and inexcusably, Dante is a visual failure. Several bits of footage are reused at times, stock-footage style. It's very noticeable, and incredibly grating towards the end. The whole thing has the feel of a cheap afternoon TV movie despite the decent CGI.The actors are actually quite good and do the best they can to salvage this disaster. However, they can only do so much and frankly, there's very little to salvage.Avoid.

boyd1955 Now... Let's be honest ... Caro has never been able to get his head round a narrative ... Delicatessen and City of Lost Children were both wonderful to look at, but were a complete mess when it came to pacing and narrative ... This is so typical today when most of these cinema directors come from Television ... And making ADVERTS ... What we get is loads of flash, but no real substance This film even manages to fail on that front ... It looks cheap ... The story is all over the place ... And in the end it just turns into 2010,only not as good ... Which, lets be honest, wasn't the greatest piece of cinema I'm reading a lot about financial problems with the production etc... But quite frankly, however much money you throw at something it is going to be crap if there isn't a decent idea in the first place... AND THERE WASN"T : )

jamie-peay If you deplore Christianity or even the symbolic presentation of mostly Christian ideas, even in a science fiction setting, you need not apply. This movie though visually striking and psychologically humanitarian, has very little back story or outright purpose other than to signify the virtue and creative power of self sacrifice. The imagery employed for the most part is obviously intended for the layman, but some deeper mysteries are also represented through the use of some lesser known and more profound symbolism. Every aspect of this film is developed to signify philosophical and spiritual concepts, from the names of the various characters, to the very shape of the space station on which the story plays out, which happens to be the unfolded four-dimensional hypercube. Without going into to much detail, suffice it to say if you do not appreciate abstract symbolism for the sake of its ability to communicate higher knowledge and secret wisdom then you most likely will not fully appreciate this film. That is not to say that there is nothing else to enjoy, as the acting for the most part is competent and the set design unsettlingly claustrophobic and nightmarishly stark so as to create a truly unnerving experience. I enjoyed this movie very much, though I feel with a little more development of the story it could have been much more accessible for the sometimes "profane" and often "uninitiated" masses. Donnie Darko, Pans Labyrinth, and The Fountain are ideologically similar films that may be more accessible and/or more compelling, simply for their ability to be interpreted differently by those with a disdain for Christ, and their better conceptualized approaches, more fully developed plot lines, and larger budgets... 8 out 10 stars!