Babel DVD

Advantages: Script, Acting, Music, Picture and Sound.
Disadvantages: Limited special features.

◊^^^Synopsis^^^◊ Babel is the compelling multi-cultural drama in which a tragic accident in Morocco sets off a chain off events that will link four groups of people who, divided by vast cultural differences, will discover a shared destiny that ultimately connects them. It focuses on 3 stories that, inevitably in any good film such as Pulp Fiction, interlock. There is no real order to these three stories as they are ongoing throughout ...
...language barrier is explored in Babel isn’t funny, it’s terrifying! It is very difficult to explain without giving important aspects of the film away so I shall try and explain in another context. Imagine a situation in which you are in another country and one of your loved ones needs help hurriedly and you desperately try explain to someone who doesn’t speak your language in another country where your loved one is and that they need assistance. ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent cast and performances
Disadvantages: Nothing major

Babel is multi-award nominated film starring Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt but they are far from the stars in this ensemble piece. The film is in four parts, with each story interlinked. For the most part the connections are obvious but one of the connections is more subtle than the others. Also the stories are told out of sequence with each other. Whilst each story takes roughly the same amount of screen time, not all of them run concurrently, which ...
...to build the tower of Babel up to heaven. Performance wise I just cannot fault this film. You would obviously expect an actor of the calibre of Cate Blanchett to do well, and she was excellent, even though it was such a relatively small role for her. Brad Pitt also impressed me, getting his teeth into the part and making Richard a deeper and more interesting character than he may otherwise have been. Adrianna Barazza and Rinko Kikuchi both deserved ... Read review

Advantages: A gripping script, good cast and excellent direction
Disadvantages: if you don't like subtitles avoid this

...first seen the advert for Babel I have to admit that I really wasn’t sure if it would be my sort of film. The more I thought about it though, the more tempted I was to actually watch it. It seemed like a movie that was going to need an evening set aside to watch it and Thursday night that is exactly what I did. Having finished work and pottering around the flat I lay back on the sofa to see if Babel lived up to all the hype I’d heard about it. Of ...
...Pitt but his role in Babel really surpasses almost everything else I’ve seen him in. He actually suits the more involved, serious roles and after some of the roles I’ve seen him in it still surprises me how well he does this sort of role. Unlike Pitt I’ve never really been a fan of Cate Blanchett and while her performance in this film is quite good I didn’t really take to her character, although she did spend most of the film lying on a floor with ... Read review

Advantages: Gripping throughout
Disadvantages: Noot for everyone's taste, needs time dedicated to it

...every one of them. Babel is also the winner of the oscar for best picture in 2007, and similar in many ways and themes to the 2006 winner, Crash. The name of the film comes from the biblical story of the Tower of Babel - a tower built so that people could get closer to god. Biblical and religious questions are continuously raised throughout the film. Babel certainly isn't for everybody's taste. There are four stories interweaved between different ...
...a car with him! Babel also put me off ever visiting Morrocco, or if you do you wouldn't want to do anything wrong going by the portrayal of police brutality. Don't go to see this if you want something to switch off to. There are no big explosions and all the drama comes from real life situations. What I love about Inarrito's films is that he can inadvertently switch from a moment that truly touches your heart, as happens at the first switch between ... Read review

Advantages: Great cast, excellent cinematography
Disadvantages: poor script, poor direction, waste of time.

It is a tedious film and frankly very boring. Alejandro Gonzalez's previous films have been enjoyable, so I was looking forward to this film. But I felt that it was trying too hard to get the message of poor communication accross. I was also disappointed in the director's choice not to make use of his cast (which was an amazing line up). It felt like glorified cameo's with very little back story and so I was not emotionally attched to any of the ...
...cinematography - fantastic shots of the landscape and the capturing of the Japanese city. But apart from that the story was empty and the characters were just shadows. I think the director hoped that people viewing this film, would think about the world they live in and the different cultures (and the difficulty to live side by side). But it tries too hard, and fails, it just becomes one of those "arty" flicks that disappoint. ... Read review