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Birth [2004]
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Useless movie
Review date: 2008-08-31 Rating: 2 out of 10
Unnecessarily long, this movies attempts to built a mystery plot based on supra natural phenomena where Nicole Kidman's late husband comes back to life embodied in a 10 year old boy, who declares her love for her.
The movie never takes off and we watch the expressionless faces of the main characters staring at us - our entertainment being to wonder what on Earth their thoughts may be. The extremely narrow script does not come to our help.
The ending is perhaps the most disappointing part of the movie, because our expectations vanish when all goes back in the right place in an obvious way.
The only comments worth to make are that Nicole's short air cut is not a gift to her, despite her pretty face, and that surely one can find better ways to spend one's time.
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Reviews
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Review date: 2007-11-02 Rating: 6 out of 10
this was a clever film and i know i should have been captured by some kind of beauty that it was meant to represent for past emotions of people who are no longer alive but i just spent most of the film feeling slightly scared at the fact that nicole kidman was having a bath with a ten year old boy and not realising how wrong it was to be falling in love with him, it was good from the point of how she tries to come to terms with her bereavement of her late husband, but apart from that it was just wrong!
Worth Watching for Kidman Alone!
Review date: 2007-10-31 Rating: 8 out of 10
This film is more about human emotions [externally+internal] than anything else! If you can't appreciate an actors performance without them doing some action scene or over the top emotional wreck scene then you won't understand this film! Nicole Kidman's scene while she sits in the cinema is just - well no words describe - you have to watch for yourself!
Wish I'd read the reviews before renting!!
Review date: 2006-12-30 Rating: 2 out of 10
I'm sorry, but I can't agree with any of the reviews who claim this film is interesting in a darkly moody, intellectual, european or any other sense. I'm an educated Woman of 30 something and I like to sit down and watch a film that either whirrs my brain to think hard about what is going on, or laugh, or simply be etertained - I STRUGGLED to watch through this film and for the last 40 minutes I watched in pure disbelief at how crap it was, defended it bitterly to my sleeping husband, claiming that 'something will happen soon and it will all make sense!' - it didn't. I'm not prudish, but the suggestion that any woman could consider a sexual relationship with a 10 year old boy is WEIRD and DISTURBING - if this is meant to be a reflection on grief, there are far better ways of doing this. Supernatural - NO, but that would have made a better film. I really wish I'd read the reviews before renting this and thank goodness I didn't pay [...] for two cinema tickets. Serious - don't bother renting this, even at Amazons bargain rental prices it leaves you feeling disturbed, weird and ripped off!
The next life in this.
Review date: 2006-12-26 Rating: 8 out of 10
Read Dr Jim B Tucker's Life Before Life before dismissing this as bilge - open your eyes. It is a very good thought-provoking film about the possibility of someone dearly loved being reborn and coming, totally unexpectedly, back into one's life. If you loved someone a lot and s/he died then seemingly came back later in another form how would you cope? What a weird mind-blowing scenario. Being a Scientologist, Kidman was up for this idea. There is certainly more to life and the after life than we imagine in our sanitised world of 'only science knows the truth' - if only 'science' really knew a fraction of the truth...
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Cameron Bright
Danny Huston
Nicole Kidman
Lauren Bacall
Creators:
Nicole Kidman (Primary Contributor)
Lauren Bacall (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Entertainment in Video
Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
EAN: 5017239192845
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2005-05-02
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 100 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2004
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)