Adriana Barraza, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett
Armed with a Winchester rifle, two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats. In the silent echoes of the desert, they decide to test the rifle… but the bullet goes farther tha...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 20, 2007
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November 11, 2009A very well made film and interesting idea. I just felt it was a bit too drawn out and didn't have the impact of something like Crash. Good story but might not be for everyone.
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June 4, 2009Real good drama, I did enjoy it a lot, solid plot, great performances, worth the watch.
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May 10, 2009Babel is a movie that will trap you from the very first second, Its a story full of drama, the plot is so interesting and touching. Directed by mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, by far this one is his biggest and greatest film. Different people in different parts of ...( read more)
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April 5, 2009Well I started to watch this and at once though...oh no...what have I done? this looks lame, I spent how much on this apparent dubbed movie *weep*
It then progressed with the individual stories, each one being alittle more intriguing by the minute, until all of a sudden your hoo...( read more) -
January 20, 2009I really didn't think the stories linked together enough. I saw the connections, but sometimes they were just too weak. And the naked girl's random appearances just seemed like attention grabbers to keep people from falling asleep. I just expected more from this movie.
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November 20, 2009a similar protryed film as crash!
this was an interesting and intense film, however i found it confusing and left unexplained and i did not get how the Japanese story line fitten in!
really good acting and moving scenes though :) just not as deep a film as it was made out to be! -
November 12, 2009Babel completely blew me away. I guess I had expected it to be kind of high-brow and "This Is Arte!" ( i. e. Synecdoche, New York) I had not expected it to be this good. Its beautiful and poetic, emotional and disturbing. Its beautifly filmed and scripted. I really liked the ente...( read more)
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November 4, 2009The way of shooting the scenes and different ways of telling a story might attract many people. but there is no point in doing like that. Each scene is slow, and that's all. There is no unique atmosphere in every scene. The movie can be shorten to tell a story.
Critic Reviews
November 10, 2006
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
November 5, 2006
Pete Hammond, Maxim
An unqualified triumph from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. World class filmmaking of the highest order. full review
November 3, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
In the end, a film of profound ambition is unmasked as one without real purpose, a misguided attempt to make a serious, important statement despite having nothing, really, to say. full review
November 2, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The director interweaves his stories like a symphonic composer, teasing out suspense here, adding foreboding there, bringing in a surge of crushing pathos, but then providing a blessed note of hope an... full review
October 26, 2006
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Babel possesses unusual aesthetic force, even if it does not seem to be tethered to any coherent idea or narrative logic.
October 26, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
How Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga seamlessly link these four stories makes for an unconventional film experience that is weighty, thought-provoking and riveting. full review
October 26, 2006
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
Unrelentingly, unremittingly sad, excruciatingly painful, all for no valid reason, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel is a movie to avoid at all costs. full review
October 20, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The year's richest, most complex and ultimately most heartbreaking film. full review
September 23, 2006
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Ambitious and absorbing for nearly all its 2½-hour running time. full review
Comments
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January 7, 2009It looks like an interesting film. Pitt has got to be the single most overated actor in western civilization today, but hopefully his subpar acting won't kill the film!
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October 14, 2007This Movie Was Good But It's True It Didn't Need That Third Story The One About The Japanese People It Doesn't Fit In The Movie.
You, my friend, need to look deeper into the meaning of the movie than just the surface plot. The movie's themes about being all alone and helpless connect Rinko Kikuchi's character to the rest of the film.
Also there are four stories
Japanese
Mexico/American border
Brad Pitt/Cate Blanchette
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August 9, 2007This Movie Was Good But It's True It Didn't Need That Third Story The One About The Japanese People It Doesn't Fit In The Movie.
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June 10, 2007Ohmigosh this film is awesome. My best friend took me to it for my birthday and I didn't expect it to be so great coz of the subtitles, but I loved it! Anyone who says it's rubbish has no taste.
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June 9, 2007All right, I liked this movie well enough, but the guy that says it's better than 21 Grams is completely out of his fucking mind.
It's better than 21 Grams, but both are still great films.
Babel is the last in the Iñarritu/Arriaga trilogy, and it's the only film that gets the fundamental emotions and message perfect. Babel is far better than 21 Grams. -
May 28, 2007All right, I liked this movie well enough, but the guy that says it's better than 21 Grams is completely out of his fucking mind.
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May 26, 2007WHAT?! This movie was lame. As far as a plot goes anyway. 4 stories brought together by lack of a common language? I must've missed it. I can't believe this film was nominated for anything. I had to mute the movie a few times because that 'sound' was grating. I was expecting much more.
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April 21, 2007It appears as a documentary more than an ordinary movie.
Very political.Reflected parts of social & political lives of today at different countries at 3 different continents.
Very interesting.
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