FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

MarieGabrielle I had seen her in several good films,(The Amazing Mr. Ripley" for one) where she made her mark, but this performance deserves special note. She is believable and sympathetic as a recovering drug addict, living in Australia and attempting to re-make her life, managing a video store.The actress portraying her harried mother, who is dealing with two addicted siblings is also noteworthy and under-played. There were no over-acting and histrionics in this film, and until the end, we really feel for Blanchet'ts character, and the life she is trying to keep going. We see her at the bank when she is denied a line of credit for her business, and we feel empathy for her, can even relate to the situation.Sam Neill is also very good as a retiring dealer, and the story is not glamorized or portrayed as something desirable (unlike some Hollywood films dealing with addiction).The soundtrack is effective and haunting, the scenes at the beach are memorable and sad. Wonderful film. 9/10.

Gordon-11 This film is about a woman who tries to get her life back on track after 4 years of heroin addiction.I find the plot confusing, and the story poorly told. It is a drama, but lacks the drama. The pace of the story is very slow. Even after 90 minutes of the film, the only message I really perceive from the film is that Cate Blanchett's character is unable to get a loan despite repeated attempts. I am particularly annoyed by the excessive use of glares and halos around bright lights. It is not even a nice visual effect to start with anyway. Despite the stellar cast, I find this film unable to deliver what it could have been. I would not recommend it.

Claudio Carvalho In Sidney, Tracey Heart (Cate Blanchet) is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving), unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boy-friend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) returns from Vancouver, Tracey's mother Janelle (Noni Hazlehurst) fears a fall of Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray (Martin Henderson) lost one leg. When Ray and Jonny associate to Moss (Joel Tobeck), the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson (Sam Neill), in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business along the weekend."Little Fish" is a heavy drama, based on losers, people addicted in drugs, showing how difficult the recovery is. The lead character is a woman without perspective in life that sees the chance of a good honest business, but with the doors closed due to her past, being therefore trapped in her past. Her mother suffers in double, since her former mate addicted her daughter and her son, who lost part of one leg with Jonny. The story is original, having the characters very well developed along the narrative and with great performances. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Sob o Efeito da Água" ("Under the Effect of the Water")

awillawill Reading some through some of the reviews already posted, I began to wonder if my wife and I had seen an entirely different film called Little Fish. But no. Cate Blanchett was definitely in the one we saw. There she was, acting her little heart out with admirable skill and determination, but nothing could save the film from itself. It simply failed to engage.The script was unnecessarily meandering and complex and didn't move the story on at a satisfying pace. There is definitely a story to be told on this theme, but it struck us as though the director had used an early script draft by mistake. If the script did go through the usual very necessary rewrite-after-rewrite development then one can only speculate about just how awful the first couple of drafts must have been.Frankly, it is a dud that can best be summed up as "a film about losers who stay losers". And did we care? No, not one bit. Sorry guys!Andy Williams