artistically very interesting movie that challenges you to think. Sometimes it gave me the feeling that it was kind of 'rambling' without having a point, but its still an ok movie.

A delicate, ineffable film. It is better and means more than you think it should. Which is always the result of excellent direction.

Beautifully shot and photographed but still a very pretentious effort.

Another one of those "mature" films about being lost in life. Not bad, and Murray is at a career best. Just not _that_ brilliant either.

A low-key film about a low-key semi-romance amidst urban alienation in unfamiliar surroundings. Murray's dry delivery of humour is always appreciated in this camp and the humour of the film meshes with him just right, thus Lost in Translation succeeds on a humour level. The film was pretty pretty too. Conclusion: A beautiful subtle look at a fleeting romance between two people who very likely never met again.

This movie is as much about two lonely people connecting as it is the film version of a love note about Japan. You immediately connect with both characters in the film but overall the writing felt a little stereotypical at times. The roles for the Japanese folk seem to be written a tad predictably and without much depth which gives them the impression of just being cardboard characters in the background for the two main people in the film.

A masterpiece

I thought that this was a beautifully crafted film. Sofia Coppola deserves high praise for the sympathetic way that Murray and Johansson are blended closer and closer together. This aspect was developed in such a gradual and natural way thatI was totally convinced by the unlikely but ultimately unfulfillable relationship. Murray was sensational. My only complaint was that I had to turn the volume up to the maximum to hear Murray's closing words to Johansson. And how apt those words were!

755

It is a sweet movie, but a little bit more depth in the story would not hurt. Excellent chemistry between the two leads. Loved the ending and the moral how we tend to control our emotions at wrong instances and later regret it.

Understated, surreal, beautiful, frustrating, and charming. A story of love, friendship, alienation and discovery, the film excels thanks to its brilliant direction and Murray's outstanding performance. Marvellous.

A movie about loneliness and fleeting connections between people. I don't quite understand the accusations of racism, because I think this is also an affectionate homage to not-entirely-inauthetic Japanese weirdness and nightlife. Some of it is clichéd, but let's just imagine this as the inverse of two people from abroad meeting in the strange place that is America; point being, cultural caricature is not necessarily "racist." It is used here simply to emphasize alienation and longing.

Mesmerizing.