Babel DVD > Reviews

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

...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. I ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read review