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  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 20, 2008
    Both intensely exciting for its cinematic inventions and terribly uninvolving on emotional and dramatic levels.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 2, 2008
    First movie made to date starring robots disguised as humans. Thus, explaining the lack of anything that remotely looks like a human emotion, or normal human behaviour, in this film.

    Anyway, Reygadas can't trick me with his smoke curtains, the man wanted to film fat people screwing. If you need more proof of the type of cinematic wanker this guy is, he's selling himself like a sort of Tarkovsky meets Breson. Seriously, nobody in his right mind will say they "enjoyed" this unless they're just trying to impress some pseudo-intelectual hot chick at some bar.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 14, 2007
    Busca provocar mediante contrastes? sensacionalismo? En ocaciones la odio, la amo o intento quererla..
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 7, 2007
    Carlos es un director mexicano que se arriesga, y eso lo puedo respetar. Además, es el único que puedo decir que hace películas mexicanas que no parecen hechas por un mexicano. Su gusto por utilizar actores desconocidos ayuda en gran parte a que sus ejercicios funcionen. Japón no me llegó, pero Batalla en el Cielo tiene algo que siempre quise hacer, y él se me adelantó y siempre será el primero.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 12, 2007
    i can't stand it... it was.. horrible! que horror es esta pelicula.. no me gustaria verla otravez.. antes, solo podia verla por unos minutitos..
  • No rating.
    MCT:
    May 3, 2007
    The worst movie ever made!! Awful!! Hideous!! Gross!! Disgusting!! An amazing idea, a great screenplay, ruined by hideous performances by "common people" who shouldn't be acting AT ALL! I didn't give a rat's ass for the nudity or the explicit sex! It wasn't a big deal and it didn't bug me at all... what I found disgusting was the horrible work the director made with his actors: if you're gonna work with non-professional people, you should KNOW how to direct them!!!! Awful... just awful...
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    April 20, 2007
    the director of this movie never uses actors in his movies ..only real people from the streets .. and make ..nudity scenes .. and felations.. a good story
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 6, 2007
    An uneasy film with some strange beauty. Interestin camera work to say the least. It opens with a blowjob!!
  • 1.0 Star
    MCT:
    March 11, 2007
    Ugly fat guy sleeps with prostitute in graphic sex scene. Slow, plot-less, with characters you couldn't care less about let alone identify with.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 8, 2007
    I have very mixed feelings about this movie. I did enjoy to a degree the way the director observed the things around the film alot, the way he filmed faces was very different. BUT thats the photographer in me coming out, on film it just makes for a very SLOW movie.

    No joke at all here~ read the back of the film case before you rent it, and you will know the WHOLE plot except for one small detail that does not even make sense when it happens, I cant say you will be completly disapointed because if you can enjoy the very fine details in a movies visual experience there are things that will make you intrigued, BUT, if you want anything with a deeper plot or even a sensable story... id sugest you flip your fingers to the right or left in the store and rent another~ very boring.

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  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 17, 2007
    This is honest to god the worst thing I've ever seen in my whole entire life. I'm STILL mad that I paid to see it over a year later. The Flixster Synopsis might trick you into thinking that this movie has a plot, but in reality, it just doesn't. Nothing happens. It made me wish I were dead the whole time I was in the theater. Please don't ever watch this.
  • Want To See
    MCT:
    January 17, 2007
    I read good critics about this movie, but also bad ones, so it's a controversial movie (like all the movies that Carlos Reygadas direct)
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 28, 2006
    I was quite disappointed by this, expecting a Breillat-style examination of raw sexuality. Though the movie has developed a notorious reputation for it's extreme sex scenes, these moments do seem to glare at the audience, as if only to distract us from the plotless imagery. It seems to involve a kidnapping and the pursuit of a girl ending in our protagonist's mental breakdown, but the narrative is highly uninvolving, giving the film a very documentarian feel. And when most of what is documented is a fat man recieving a veerrry slow blowjob, it does make you question sticking through it all.
  • 1.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 1, 2006
    it was an alright the movie but i was really tired when i was watching it so i only watched bits of it
  • Not Interested
    MCT:
    August 25, 2006
    dont u fink BETHANY that there is a bit too much u cud have told evaryone that there waz 10000 movies then no one wud av done it in the FIRST PLACE
  • Want To See
    MCT:
    June 7, 2006
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  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 31, 2006
    I found this to be very beautiful at times and very confusing at others. I really enjoyed the director's previous work "Japon" a lot more.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 25, 2006
    I loved this film i saw it when it came out in Raindance film festival in london uk. and I was supprised at how well done and beautifuly made it was. yes it was a lil long but it was great to see an independent go at making this film.

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  • Rated: (Unrated)
  • Directed by: Carlos Reygadas
  • Genres: Art House & International
  • Released: December 31, 2005
  • DVD Released: May 9, 2006

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