Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

aamilsyed Anthony is a good host. I don't care that he praises all the food everywhere; I'm not depending on his review of the food anyway. What I'm really looking for is the thrill of adventure and Anthony's acerbic wit as he explores the places. Unfortunately, he mainly ends up spending most of his time with expat restaurant-ers instead of spending more time with the locals. I don't want to know what an expat thinks of the local cuisine or politics! I don't want to see where he takes you. I'd rather they did some research and got in touch with locals who could show them around. Also, lose the rockstar image and terrible background score, please?

sdeschel As a fellow world traveler and writer, I was a faithful fan of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown for years. That is, until he killed a live pig while drunk in Vietnam. Honestly Anthony, I do not need to see a drunk, traumatized individual act out by killing an innocent living being as it screams when speared with a medieval bow and arrow. Then to watch the blood spurt out - thanks for the visuals, CNN. I am rethinking my ties to you as well.As traumatizing as it was for my partner and I to watch, it probably didn't even touch the trauma that Bourdain was acting out from a distant tour in Vietnam, and for this I am very sorry. Please get the help you so desperately need, Anthony - there is plenty out there.I can't help but wonder too if this was the hidden metaphor. I usually get metaphors, however somehow this one got lost in the bloody drama.Parts unknown, no more.

scotearle Most Asian places featured so far (Vietnam, Singapore, Shanghi) consume copious amounts of dog meat. I guess CNN thinks that most Americans would find this so disgusting that they would turn it off. Tony has made it clear that he has no moral problems with eating anything that moves or moved and has no problem with how the animal was kept before being slaughtered. He is into maximum taste. Nothing else matters. My point is that if the shows purports to give an overview of popular local cuisine, it should include dog meat and show how the dogs are tortured before being skinned alive. This is what you witness in Vietnam, not nice happy chefs butchering a pig that was killed humanely.

Luciana Agostinho This is basically Bourdain's previous series, No Reservations, on CNN. He goes on familiar places and eat weird food or to weird places and eat weirder food, all the while commenting on politics. Perhaps Parts Unknown is a little more personal and biographical to Bourdain than the previous show. We also get to see and hear more of him about him. That cuts both ways, as he sometimes comes out more of a jerk than a likable cynical. But that's OK. The places he goes don't get the cynical angle they deserve sometimes. Something that's even more pronounced in Parts Unknown than in No Reservations is Bourdain's tendency to ear on the streets, at people's houses or out-of-the-way places. I can tell if that's Bourdain's preference or a production decision. Even in episodes in which he goes to fancy restaurants, such as when he visited Finland, the show prefers the iconoclast, the odd-man-out. It's that anarquist, non conformist, often cynically-bent that makes a great show that is only about food in passing. It's about the peoples of this world.