Yet another great drama from Clint Eastwood.The directing was,as usual, perfect. Eastwood managed again getting great performance from everyone who stands in front of his camera.Angelina jolie was, to my suprise,actually good.John Malkovich was as a welcomed face which can lift a movie even with only his presence.You don't see a film constantly keeping the viewer tense while moving on with the story, building pressure for the drama and not relaying on action for more than 2 hours everytime.

Jolie is impeccable in a performance that channels the great, powerful actresses of yesterday like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford in this superbly shot Eastwood drama.

so-so, too slow and drawn out to be able to recommend it.

Filme bacana com uma boa estória (baseada em fatos reais), conta ainda com uma direção competente de Eastwood, mas infelizmente Angelina Jolie não sabe atuar, prejudicando muito o andamento do filme...

Fantastic, emotionally gripping, and wrenching true-life drama. All the more potent because it really happened, the performances are absolutely unbelievable (especially Jolie and Malkovich). Made me cry several times. Absolutely excellent.

Jolie wasn't totally convincing. She came close, but it wasn't 'IT'. Apart from that it's a very good film.

Better than I expected, certainly not one of Eastwood's best but still a good picture. Jolie was very good. The biggest problem was the child acting.

Very disturbing but very immersive. She did a great job.

In my opinion the movie was made with the intention of the lead ending up with an Oscar for the Best Actress in Leading Role. I am glad that this didnt happen as Angelina Jolie really didnt do justice to character of Christine Collins. The movie moves along in a slow pace as some of Clint Eastwoods other film. I believe Clint Eastwood could have done a better job in direction of this movie. I gave a higher score for John Malkovich's performance. The drama went overboard at times.

Excellent work from Mr. Eastwood -- *again*. That man really shows his titanium balls here, even more so than he did when he made a movie that dared to portray Imperial Japanese soldiers in a sympathetic light. Everything works.

In the beginning, I wasn't sure how the film was going to depart from the generic feeling it was providing. But as I was slowly drawn into the mystery, corruption, sadness and, at times, terror of the story, it began to dawn on me that Eastwood has no limitations as a director. Or if he does, I can't find any. The man is golden, his talent propelling him further and further up my favorite directors list.

Flat and overly score-driven. I enjoyed the meandering plot.

why angelina? why?

Strong directing. Very good part by Angelina Jolie and several other actors. Author suppoused to sharpen his pen.

I've never liked Angelina Jolie, so for me to say that she's the strongest part of an Eastwood film should tell you just how disappointed I was. Everything is carefully planned and the cinematography is neat, but all the energy and the joy of filmmaking have been sucked out. Changeling is an hour too long, the whole serial killer part is uninteresting and unnecessary and Eastwood irritatingly leaves nothing up for interpretation, saying "this is how it went". Jolie will get an Oscar, no doubt.

On every level, Changeling is superb. It excels at telling an extraordinary story that seems to be very unmentioned in modern American history, despite its relative shock-value by comparison to other murder stories. The acting, pacing, and direction are all fantastic. I think it is one of the year's best.

Roller skates and serial killing. CR shout out. The isolation and powerlessness of the mother were expertly portrayed. [Entry 4 Birthday CD Movie Crawl 02.23.2009]

They really failed at convincing the audience that she believed it was her kid at the train station. From then on, I couldn't help but think about this throughout the rest of the film. A few scenes tried to buy our sympathy which was unnecessary, let the acting and story do that.

After seeing this you'll probably do the same thing i did - go to wikipedia to check if it is really a 'true story', because sometimes it is just too hard to believe. Also I don't know about acting of Jolie ("HE IS NOT MY SON!!!!"x11 gave me shivers in a bad way), but she looked really beautiful. Good work with costumes and hats and makeup. Conventions are followed very closely, so it is kind of un-exciting. It's like taking a trip on a very comfortable train but somewhere you have already been.

With a surprisingly disturbing plot, intriguing story line and a true story to hold it up, this film allows Jolie to flex her acting muscles, and she does so in abundance.

Whoa. Changeling excels in so many levels of filmmaking, the best it does this is the acting. Jolie and Malkovich are absolutely superb, and everything happening all feels so real. This is just a sorrowful, mind-bending true Drama that depicts the true events of a single mother trying to overcome her guilt, sadness and anger to save her son. One of the year's best.