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Mar 22, 2023CupertinoJay rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
checked out by mistake / not for me. signed, gramps
Oct 13, 2022gregkarson rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is so good that I can't wait to read the book. This story (the film & screenplay combined) is the intersection of a Dystopian Tragedy and a Bildungsroman (coming of age story). The protagonists are a kind of untermensch (subhuman),…
Mar 15, 2022Mark7f rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Japanese fatalism perfectly melded with British class awareness. One of the few successfully constructed moral science fiction dramas, in a class with Soylent Green or Gattaca, to name a couple, I think this film will nevertheless remain…
Jan 08, 2019akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Directed by Mark Romanek in 2010 based on a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist's 2005 novel of the same name, this British dystopian romantic drama delves into the love triangle. With the cast's excellent performances, the film depicts…
Oct 08, 2018tenet rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Rated 3/10. While overall the acting wasn't too bad, the storyline was massively depressing. I was hoping at some point, the clones were going to revolt, or something - anything - but nothing. The ending was totally predictable. This…
Jan 13, 2018jonnybroom rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Beautifully shot, with a poignant central performance by Carey Mulligan. The details of this eerie world gradually reveal themselves. It's like watching a fruit ripen well past its prime in time-lapse photography. I like Louis Menand's…
Jun 30, 2017JCLSheidaB rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Beautiful and melancholy contemplation on love and mortality.
Apr 01, 2017Ron@Ottawa rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The theme of the story is not very convincing - a group of people are cloned to provide, down the road, organs to their ailing originals. So we follow these clones from their childhood, raised in an English boarding school, to their…
Sep 20, 2016TEENREVIEWCREW rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I didn't like the movie that much. Maybe the sad ending had touched my heart a little but this kind of movie (for me) is a movie that you watch once and you don't remember it again. When I searched about the movie before I watched it…
May 27, 2016LadyJaneBrais rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I read the book a while ago, and the story really shook me. The film was beautifully done and very authentic to the book. It was tragic and chilling to watch the story unfold on the screen, and with Rachel Portman's incredible music…
Dec 30, 2015No_Stalkers4Me rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Novel premise. The story unfolds in an unexpected way. Not your usual Hollywood fare.
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Oct 02, 2015nycounsel rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Semi sci-fi thoughtful drama about people raised to be organ donors, and how none of us really get the time we'd like.
May 04, 2015forbesrachel rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
An absolutely beautiful adaptation of the book. Subtle, sad, and full of universal truths. This has a sci-fi context, but is nothing like sci-fi in the approach or tone, it explores the very nature of humanity, life, death, and the soul.
Apr 27, 2015haPPY_FUn_baLL rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A haunting and sad sci-fi film which does a good job of adapting from Ishiguro's book. No wonder this is a book club fave!
Feb 28, 2015StarGladiator rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A well thought out film, written in a very realistic vein, both the plot and the characters' reaction. Lest anyone think it in the realm of SF, search on the Facebook profile of Elite IVF (organ harvesting firm in Switzerland) - - then…
Nov 24, 2014kay_g_93 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A fantastic story that raises questions on ethics and love. Knightly, Mulligan and Garfield are great actors, but so are the children that portray their younger selves. Realizing that the movie was based on a novel I think that explains…
Aug 02, 2014SmileSimplify rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
The main plot was interesting enough, though the premise behind it is depressing, to say the least. The film's pace is plodding. (It'll possibly lull an insomniac to sleep.) What I found irritating is the characters'…
Jun 03, 2014
EXPLOITATION!
velloxal
Dec 31, 2013velloxal rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Depressing.
Dec 10, 2013JCLHelenH rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Here's a rather depressing film about how horrid people can be to one another. Both in personal relationships and society at large.
Dec 06, 2013miss_moneypenny rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
It's hard to say how I would feel about this if I didn't read and love the book first. Compared to the book, I thought the movie was absolutely awful. The characters were so one-dimensional, and most of the mystery and suspense got…
Aug 21, 2013booklover717 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I've just finished the book and was profoundly moved by it, so wondered how it would transfer to the screen. In my opinion it doesn't. The book's slowly growing sense of claustrophobia and helplessness as the reader slowly realizes…
Aug 19, 2013
Never Let Me Go is an intriguing movie based of the book by Kazuo Ishiguro. I found the story to be very sad even morbid but also very compelling. It’s quite different to anything I’ve ever watched, it’s about these three friends who are…
Jun 05, 2013
Too much sex for children to watch this DVD! Very slow moving! Not much action! Semi-strong characters! It shows the selfishness & self-centered personality characteristics of humans in many areas. Society treats these human clones like…
Apr 02, 2013Brendi_B rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Rather boring. Sexual sense.