Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Tammoncrieff Like Minds contains much to recommend it and much to annoy. Overall, it's well acted, atmospheric, intriguing and interesting and if you love Eddie Redmayne, here's a real treat to see him playing against type.It's a British(specifically Yorkshire)/Australian co-pro with an apparent requirement to be shot in both locations. It's clearly set geographically in the North of England but the entire cast speak as if from the South. OK, it's set in an English public (i.e. private) school and everyone is posh - but the police also are not depicted as local and there's never a reference to where the school is supposed to be. Most jarring is that the scenes set on trains and on railway lines must have been shot in Australia because British trains look completely different and the carriage interiors just can't be in England. In a film that requires suspension of disbelief lack of authenticity in locations undermines the movie.Toni Collette nearly passes herself off as English but her accent slips from time to time. There's no reason why she couldn't be an Australian in this role. Her part is not written up enough for her - she doesn't have any great exchanges with Eddie Redmayne, although there's an electric scene when she goes into a dark basement where she excels. However Richard Roxburgh is playing a local cop in a rural region of the UK and his accent is all over the place. He is not convincing as British. Combined with the Australian locations, the film loses impact for a British audience, which is its most obvious market, because you start thinking about its bi-national production.The main protagonist, Eddie Redmayne gives a sterling, mesmerising lead performance that makes the film worth watching. Tom Sturridge is good too, though less beautiful, charismatic and internally haunting than he really needs to be. What they do get completely right is that teenage repressed love/hate symbiotic rivalry thing with undertones of latent homosexuality. Patrick Malahide does his usual thing as an unsympathetic headmaster and his usual thing is superb.The film starts and ends well, but it does slip into Da Vinci Code/Harry Potter historic mumbo jumbo magic three quarters of the way through. This could be put down to the narrative being based on the deliberately fantastic flashbacks of one of the the boys or on the fantasy ideas of the other troubled teenager. That none of the boys are actually boys but played by men in their 20s again slightly undermines this as they are just too grown up and sophisticated.But that's the plot McGuffin. The atmosphere, the photography, the tension and the plot outcome and the twists are well handled.

NEWPDQ Really bad. Pretentious. Clunky. Nonsensical. Poorly scripted. Felt sorry for the actors (most of them anyway). This is the kind of thing they did well in the 1960s - films full of brooding menace and sexual tension that used to air on BBC2 on Sunday nights. This was just a mash-up of bad psychoanalytical babble that made you wish you were thirty years younger and had you yearning for the first time you saw something like this that wasn't a pile of badly highly strung jibber jabber. Toni Collette - why! Patrick Malahide - why! David Threlfall - why! Eddie Redmayne - well, maybe not Eddie Redmayne. I knew it was going to stiff after the first major scene when our Ed goes on about the Cathars. Coincidentally (or not... spooky...) the last film I saw with Ed in when I made the mistake of staying up late to watch it on TV (you never know, the next Unman, Wittering & Zigo may just be around the corner, you have to kiss a lot of frogs...)was about...the Cathars. Are all his films about the Cathars?

Bene Cumb Private school limits, stuffy atmosphere, secret societies, generation issues - when all combined, you could create a plot similar to Like Minds' one. It is all interesting to watch in the beginning, but the more the events develop the more crazy and "jobbish" they become. Luckily to me, all the bad events really took place - I am not into films when something is twisted in someone' s mind and imagination.The cast is strong and all the main stars are great: Toni Collette as Sally Rowe, Eddie Redmayne as Alex Forbes and Tom Sturridge as Nigel Colbie. Ms Collette is a real gifted star, but the two young males are worth remembering as well as their prior and later performances have demonstrated their talents.In short, Like Minds is quite OK, but it is still no e.g. Usual Suspects. Could be interesting for younger audiences though (hopefully not as an example).

Gordon-11 This film is about two young teenage boys developing a morbid fascination with re-enacting a medieval legend.After reading the detailed explanation of the plot on the discussion boards, I begin to make sense of the film. The plot itself is interesting, but there are quite a few problems. Nigel's speech is almost always incomprehensible, both the content and his accent are not understandable. Secondly, the non linear presentation of events make it very confusing. Thirdly, the relationship between Nigel and Alex is very ambiguous and is never fully explained. One minute Alex hates Nigel and beats him up, and the other minute they hang out with each other? So, the already complicated plot degenerates into a confusing mess of jumbled up scenes. "Like Minds" is a disappointing and confusing film.