3.5/4  Excellent
I have not had the chance to read the book by F. Scott. Fitzgerald yet, but after seeing the film I really really want too. This was by far the best Oscar nominated film in awhile. Very well done, special fx were top notch, acting was perf... (read full)

3.5/4  Almost a masterpiece.
David Fincher is, no doubt, one of the finest directors of the past 20 years. I'm glad he uses in this movie, his well developed aeasthetically sense. The story is actually not great. The plot is very basic, but solid. What makes this mov... (read full)

2/4  Alright
Interesting concept but not that well executed. It was just too slow for me, though the movie was quiet beautiful. It didn't grab me as much as it could have. Also, I didn't think like the choices of most of the character. There was jus... (read full)

4/4  Fincher and Pitt team up again for a Masterpiece @
"Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments" is the exacting tagline of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and while the fantastic story of a man that ages backwards (the titular character played by Brad Pitt) is hard to swallow, it ... (read full)

3/4  The Thought-Provoking Case of Benjamin Button
I had an odd reaction to this movie. As I watched the film, I found the premise interesting, but I thought it moved very slowly. When the two time-crossed lovers finally have their all-too-brief life together, I became very angry at Benj... (read full)

3.5/4  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I was enchanted by this movie. The acting is great, the special effects completely believable, and the story poignant. It made me think about the things that were happening in the movie and made me wonder about things that weren't. Ultimat... (read full)

2/4  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Quick Review
Weird, strange and a little creepy. A good story idea, I think it needed to stay that way, not be made into a movie. This movie was just not for me.

3.5/4  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Quick Review
Stunning Special Effects

0.5/4  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Quick Review
I thougt it was really really dull and okay the viseul effect and make up and clothes where good but whatever it is really not a good movie

4/4  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Quick Review
Fantastic. When watching this film, all emotions are present. Most entertaining venture through one man's life, with a great cast of many awesome and memorable characters. Watch it.

1/5 poor quality
  by bibleman
The item arrived in a timely fashion. The first 45 minutes played very well with good picture quality, but after the 45 minutes the DVD begin to freeze then showed video artifacts on the screen eventually the DVD just froze and would not play. I removed the DVD and cleaned it very thoroughly and played it again, but the results were the same. contacted the seller and requested a refund and they provided a full refund. Very unhappy and the DVD has no useful purpose. It is not playable.

2/5 Trying to be too much, with too little.
  by Ben Larkins (Rustburg, VA)
Felt like a Forest Gump type of movie, without the humor or compelling storyline. The movie encapsulates every sense of the word dull, and while an interesting concept, the overdrawn length of the movie coupled with a daily regret I now have for loosing 3 hours of my life while watching this forces me to hand it a 2 star rating. There are movies made so you don't have to think, and movies made to provoke thought and discourse. This movie promotes a drab, dry in between that leaves you wondering what else might have been accomplished during the time it took to watch the movie.

2/5 Bored to tears!
  by Molly A. Huff (Michigan)
I am sorry Brad Pitt, but this was wholy dissapointing. I guess if you look at the acting, I woudl say it was a good movie, but when you look at everything, it just bored. The story was interesting and worth-while, BUT there was no climax and no excitement. I guess nto every movie needs a giagntic fireworks and bombs climax, but really? I felt like I was watchign a doctor try to revive a dead patient....it just wasn't happening. All in all this movie realllllly failed to impress me.

5/5 Riveting
  by P. Schumacher (atlanta, GA United States)
This is a long, slow movie, but it is quite astonishing.

At first, there is a little smugness at the general concept: a man is born old and grows younger with time.

But the movie quickly transcends its gimmick-premise, and becomes by turns tragic, and touching, and illuminating, and funny, and amazing, and quietly wonderful.

Brad Pitt's quiet performance is a perfect counterpoint to Cate Blanchett's hyper frenzy. You can see how these two attract each other. You can also see how Button (Pitt) would be attracted to the unfulfilled, still-waiting, always-wanting-to-conquer-the-Channel character played by Tilda Swinton.

He himself is also waiting, for something neither he nor anyone else can envision.

And so the movie works subtly to give a powerful sensation of what it feels like to be alive: things happening that are profound, moving, silly, heartbreaking, wonderful, sad, ordinary, unexpected, shocking--all coming into your life, and then moving away like a ship on the horizon.

The fact that the two principal characters' life-arcs are opposite--Blanchett getting older and more sedate, Pitt getting younger and more lively--and can only meet for a touching, tragic moment, is both terribly romantic and exactly right.

This is the way things work. Nothing lasts.

But, as the lightning-victim says, every day things come along that make it wonderful to be alive.

A profound, interesting, very unusual movie.

It is also quite tricky. There are subtle, and sometimes not-so-subtle, hints of reincarnation (the hummingbird). But, very satisfyingly, the whole plot is shifted forward in time and ends with the cataclysm of Hurricane Katrina slamming into New Orleans, destroying, or seeming to destroy, this entire cycle of death-and-rebirth.

Powerful, puzzling, sublime.




5/5 Benjamin Button
  by Robert Hypes (Howe, IN USA)
One of the best movies I've seen in the last ten years. I'm a fan of movies from the 1930s and '40s much more than I am of current movies. Benjamin Button is the type of story that could have been made in that golden era of Hollywood, but with much better special effects. The movie haunted me for days after my first viewing and I had to watch it a few more times to absorb some of the small details that make the movie a lot more fun.

I've recommended it to everyone I know who likes well-made, quality movies with good story lines.