Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

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

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

sergelamarche The effects were good enough. The film is moving along very slowly though. I'm not sure I got the end of the film. Two of them duplicated. Not making sense with the ghosts or anything. The past lives are a bit strange and not all that well marked. Unless his past life was one of the blind fishes in the pond in the cave. It was strange and supernatural but lacked sense.

Tootliamtoot If you're looking for a film with no clear plot, unmemorable characters, minutes at a time of dead silence, boring dialogue, and a film that just all round is incredibly boring, you found it! Very rarely do I have a moment where I'm saddened by a thought that I may have wasted some time that i'll never get back. However, this film raises these emotions, having watched it I genuinely felt that I had wasted my time that could have been better spent doing LITERALLY anything else. Of all the things that I could get stuck up and angry about in this film - and trust me there are many things - it is the incredibly stiff and unconvincing acting. For the 113 minutes of this film, there's maybe 30 seconds, at the most, of any emotion that isn't like that feeling you have when you've just woken up but are annoyed at the fact you have to wake up. I'm sure this movie has some beautiful and profound statement of life and death or something like that but it is so heavily disguised in just plain boring nothingness that you can't be bothered to find the messages of the film. Good films create a partnership with the audience; i'll give you this many clues, and you fill in the gaps. Instead Uncle Boonmee gives the audience a bunch of meaningless unrelated scenes and expects them to do all the work, like a 1000 piece puzzle where none of the pieces actually fit together.The films jumps so erratically between genres, one minute it is a terrible film about the mundane life of a Thai farmer, the next minute it is terrible fantasy film about a talking catfish. The point of a film is to tell a story, but a story can't possibly be good if you can't follow or comprehend it. Harry Potter would have never been successful if every second chapter was erased. Uncle Boonmee is like looking after a really annoying 5 year old. It's hyper-actively running around everywhere, knocking over everything on every shelf, while screaming and giggling at the top of his lungs while you chase after it, picking up all of its mess. That is what Uncle Boonmee does to the viewer's brain. The films runs around making a mess while the viewer's brain runs around picking up all the scenes sprayed on the floor and tries to put them in some comprehensible order. The only consistency in Uncle Boonmee is that it is consistently crap for the whole 113 torturous, painful minutes.

aaronadoty This film was difficult to watch. I realized part-way through that I am accustomed to being told by the soundtrack what to think and feel about a scene in a movie. For the most part, Uncle Boonmee gives you no such clues. Without them, I had to make up my own mind about how to respond to each scene. As a viewer, you are given natural background noise and an ensemble of fairytale characters - the monkey spirit, the catfish spirit, the princess, the club-footed woman, the monk and the ghost - and you are left to figure out the rest by yourself. There is plenty of scope to do so: the ordinary daytime scenes and the surreal nighttime events both proceed at a languid pace, and the characters respond to even the most disturbing developments with polite calm and gentle acceptance. It is fortunate that the mood is so relaxed and the progress of the film so sedate, as there is a lot of weirdness to process. Think Gozu, with all the violence, theatrics and narrative removed.

garcalej I'll be frank. Whether or not you enjoy this movie will depend largely on whether or not you are a die hard film buff or a casual movie goer looking for a story. If you are the later, then aside from the eerie sight of the red eyed Monkey Spirits, you will come away disappointed.That said, there is much in Uncle Boonmee to like, but like the Buddhist aesthetic the film is steeped in, you have to be ready for it. Because this is one film that demands a lot of patience of the viewer.Set in rural Isan Province, Thailand, the story follows the last days of a well to-do farmer, the titular Boonmee, who is dying of a terminal illness. Like all dying men, Boonmee can't help but wax philosophic, both on the nature of death itself and on his own past mistakes, and one night while eating with his family is suddenly and abruptly joined by two spirits, the first of his dead wife, Huay, the second that of his missing son, Boonsong, who has inexplicably been transformed into a black monkey. Anyone even remotely familiar with the prior work of Director Weerasethakul (try saying that with a mouthful of marbles), particularly Tropical Malady, will know that such surrealism is a common theme in his films, with its signature mix of traditional Thai Buddhism and animist lore. As in Tropical Malady, the day belongs to the living and the mundane, but night brings on ghosts, animal spirits, the shades of ancestors, and the inner musings and anxieties of Weerasethakul's characters.The film itself feels much like a Buddhist temple; with its long uninterrupted and unadorned shots, and its devotion to capturing trivial moments, it is not so much a vehicle for storytelling as contemplation. The last film to be shot with celluloid as opposed to digital, it is the director's self-admitted funerary ode to a dying medium.