Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

paulclaassen Amazing visual effects makes this one of the best foreign language films I've ever seen, and quite frankly one of my favorite films of all time. The interesting plot comes wonderfully to life with fascinating visuals and good acting, notably Sergi Lopez as the antagonist. This is simply brilliance on every level!!

yasoo-04 At first glance I thought that this was a movie for children or general audience. While watching, I quickly realized how much violence the movie contained, along with gruesome scenes. I went back and checked the rating and turned out it's rated R. I am mentioning the rating confusion that I faced because I found this movie very unusual. I couldn't fit it to a category. From my point of view, the combination of fantasy and history/drama seemed incoherent. Also, I didn't find the fantasy part really captivating, it was rather dark. Overall, it was worth watching to a certain extent but definitely not a great one!

acegoldring After all the rave reviews I've seen, I'm glad I finally got around to watching this.Guillermo Del Toro is arguably one of the best filmmakers I've heard of. This film is genius and beautiful. It has a great balance of fantasy and reality/history. The acting, especially from the young protagonist, is incredible. Her character was so easy to care about and sympathize with. There's just something really captivating about this film.It might be a bit ambiguous and I think it's supposed to be; it blurs the lines between reality and imagination. It's enlightening and heartbreaking. I'd definitely recommend this movie. I've never seen anything like it and it definitely lives up to the hype.

Pjtaylor-96-138044 Guillermo Del Toro's dark fairy-tale is at it's best when it delves into its own twisted fantasy and our young protagonist comes face to face with some of the most unique creations within the genre, and yet the civil war backdrop plays just as important a role in shaping the overall story. 'Pan's Labyrinth (2006)' provides a surprisingly brutal stark contrast to the sense of wide-eyed wonder we feel whenever the lead steps into her newfound world of fawns and fairies, a world which isn't actually all that much safer. The tangibility of both these aspects is commendable considering one was created from scratch and the other was recreated from a war-torn era over fifty years ago. It is the believability of the world that makes the stakes seem all the more real, considering that danger is almost constantly present even in the places where the protagonist goes to escape - or seek a remedy for - her real-life woes. A layered, magical and mature piece that almost demands dissection. 7/10