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Summary: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
Comment: "Jon Fosters' review for amazon is so far from the truth i hope he's embarrassed. Allow me to look
at a few comments:
"With a terrific cast and superb direction from the aforementioned
Wright"-very poorly directed, in my humble opinion and the cast (with one exception- no, not
Knightly)appalling.
"His trick also is to get the pacing of the film bang-on"-only if you
like slow, slow and very slow
"it proves itself as a top quality drama, with a real emotional
punch"-Who is this man? Did he watch the same pretentious dross that I did?
" Furthermore,
it's one of the increasingly rare breed of films that sticks in your head for days after"- in the
same way as realising that just because you're the 999,999th person to visit a web site you haven't
really won a ferrari!

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Summary: Don't waste your time or money!
Comment: I was bored from the start, hoping it would get better and that something interesting would
happen... it didn't. The only positive I have is that the acting is quite good but my God what a
dull film.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Ehhh
Comment: After all the hype I thought I was going to be in for a treat - oh how I wish I had read the other
Amazon reviews first.

Personally the film is so very very very very slow and the plot,
if you want to call it that, is weak. The only redeeming feature is a single very long continuous
shoot in the middle of the film set on the beach at Dunkirk. Other than that 3 min's of impressive
cinematography it was 2 hrs of my life I will never get back.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Thanks to your intelligent reviewers! Can I give no stars!
Comment: I am delighted that I looked up your reviews- my wife and I thought that we were the only 2 people
who thought this was a pile of tosh. It is quite amazingly cliche-d. I mean the bit when he runs
after the bus has to be a joke doesen't it? No it turns out it is not! So obvious - have these
people not watched how to do this properly? Try 'Passage to India', Brideshead etc. Every part of
the first hour is a cliche from another film - the most obvious bits - and the soldiers -cor blimey
guv etc - really this is just too much and so insulting to the audience! Yep they always jump in the
fountain don't they! This is just so unbelievable.
Thanks to your sensible reviewers I am
convinced of the sanity of the world - I will try to complete watching it but honestly it is
ponderous,and tedious (the Emperors New Clothes a reviewer said - how true!) Can I give No stars?

Customer Rating:

Summary: Mechanical
Comment: Audiences may lose patience with this film.

The piano and violins play on in Atonement
(2007). There is also the dum-dee-dum tempo of a typewriter. But, apart from the score, Atonement is
a plodding and basic British production.

The lighting is there, as well as lots of
English props (trees, paintings, birds singing, lakes, beautifully tinted paper, ornaments, lamps,
flowers, necklaces, coffee tables and so on). The opening thirty minutes are tightly and masterfully
cut and edited.

However Atonement (2007) is a war/crime drama that does not appear to
show the art of motion picture. There are only a few elements of artistic novelty and use of space -
e.g. there is a deliberately exuberant sequence involving Cecilia (Keira Knightley) relaxing on a
diving board in a fashionable swim suit (which will be in the BFI brochures). But otherwise this
production is very basic. At times it looks like a beautifully filmed made-for-television
production. Like a Pride and Prejudice for the BBC.

It's dramatic moments arrive in a
perfunctory and underwhelming manner - like they do in the thousands of mediocre drama programmes.
Whether intended or not, Atonement frequently loses it's narrative authority and becomes
increasingly dull to watch.

Atonement relies heavily on post production sound to carry
it forward.

The characters are basic.

The plot proceeds in a very
predictable manner to deliver a very predictable and unshocking twist.

A noticeably
plodding film which is not groundbreaking and lacks artistic credibility and, at times, artistic
direction. Better worlds could have been created that were more authentic. The audience will also
visually notice actors are slurping from empty tea cups, and there are other errors.

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