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Summary: Somewhat disappointing
Comment: Despite the critical accolades and awards, I found this movie quite disappointing. Based on a novel
by Ian McEwan, and directed by Joe Wright (who had filmed the latest movie version of Pride and
Prejudice, much inferior to the BBC miniseries), the bulk of the movie occurs in a British country
house during one day in the mid 1930s, in which a crime might have happened of might have just been
the figment of the imagination of a fevered child. The main characters will feel for years the
consequences of what happened that day. Since I'm totally uninterested on the life of England's
upper classes, I was quite bored during a lot of the movie. And as if that wasn't enough, the final
twist of the movie (in which Vanessa Redgrave has a cameo role) is totally insulting, and makes the
viewer feels cheated. The engaging presence of Keira Knightley and newcomer Saoirse Ronan are among
the movie's few assets. On the other hand, the much praised scene set during the evacuation at
Dunkirk is very show-offy in my opinion.

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Summary: Movie Making for the Masses?
Comment: A film which requires the viewer to work for their emotional gratification is doomed to fail. My
heart strings were left irritatingly unplucked due to the essentially teniuous nature of the
story.
Atonement cleverly gives us the opportunity to see different interpretions of a
situation. And then asks us to embrace its difficult theme.
The great and the good have hailed
Atonement a masterpiece, I wonder if those people have watched enough movies.
The
Shakespearean premise has been done better, the actors and script fail to compensate for a weak
story, the photography interesting but.... and my lasting memory, disappointment.
Sorry, I
can't join the happy throng on this one

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Summary: I enjoyed the film more than the book
Comment: I much preferred the film to the novel. It is much more pacey and doesn't get bogged down in the
details which have little to do with the overall story. The actors are superb and just as you would
imagine them. In fact the character of Bryony isn't as annoying as she is in the book, she was
played brilliantly with an emphasis on a clever girl figuring out the world. Beautifully shot, the
war sections could have been a bit longer as I enjoyed them the best in the book. I understand the
ending better now which really disappointed me in the book. Good film, would recommend it for a
nice evening in and a bottle of wine.

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Summary: Best pic of 2007
Comment: Know im not a fan of Pride and prediduce the film made before attonement by the director.This movie
should of won an award for best picture.A story about telling the truth when you realy should.The
movie has realy good cinematography a brilliant drama that we dont realy see the likes of that
often.If you liked the englsih paitent im pretty sure you will like this just the movie isnt as
big.Great acting apart from Knightley not a very known cast that i recognise from other films but a
brilliant cast at that.I just wish this film was filmed in 2.35.1 instead of the 1.88.1 widscreen
apart from that one of the best films i have seen in ages.

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Summary: Over-wrought melodrama with little to commend it
Comment: How I loathe films like this! The camera moves dramatically, the violins surge and the story is
shoveled down the audience's collective throat. Worse, there is virtually no chemistry between any
of the major players! The result is a couple of hours of uninvolving, unconvincing sub-Speilberg
twaddle.

If you want to see how it should be done, take a look at Losey's The Go
Between or Altman's Gosford Park -- these are directors who understand the importance of subtlety
and nuance and who don't underestimate their audiences.

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