Glad I knew nothing of this storyline before seeing it fed to me through steady dripping drops. I wouldn't want to spoil it for you, but if you know only of the film's DVD cover before seeing it, then you'll end being shocked at how dark and disturbing this sci-fi premise is.

Beautiful.

Polite, reserved and Merchant-Ivory polished when it needs to be angrier and more threatening. There is no sense of urgency as we watch these kids essentially march towards their own demises, and no political or social dimension to their situation. Setting the film in the recent past robs it of any real sense of danger; it leaves it feeling more like a parable (but of what?) than a challenging what-if. Well acted and inherently compelling, of course, but feels like a missed opportunity.

Although it never quite achieves more than you expect -- you know, an emotional and pale indie feature --, Never Let Me Go manages to be deep and sad enough to leave you goddam depressed.

Cannot compare it with the original story thought its adaptation looks quite appealing, brings on the surface many moral questions and aspects. The imagery is astonishing as well as the score.

A story like no other, very intense, very disturbing, and infinitely depressing. Totally worth it. Ps: the book is very good too and has some twists different from the movie.

"If you don't completely scoff at Romanek's vision, it's because its ambivalence isn't exactly far from Ishiguro's own stiff upper lip." - Ed Gonzalez

Interesting idea that doesn't seem fully realised in the film despite some excellent performances. The oddness is never fully brought out, leaving the impression the wrong side of effective.

Bleek and evocative. This movie leaves you thinking about life hard.

18 Juliol 2011 - No sé en què consiteix la bellesa de les imatges, però en aquesta pel·lícula n'he trobat molta. Singularitat, lirisme. Ritme plàcid i regular. No sé quines coses perduren en la meva memòria ni per quins mecanismes. M'ha fet adonar de la desconfiança en el meu criteri, el dubte en avaluar, avaluar una pel·lícula...Absurditat. He de treballar en apaivagar la grandiloqüència.

A very interesting and high concept plot, but treated with a fair amount of subtlety. Admittedly it does resort to some sappy sentiment, and in the end it finally spoon feeds you its message, but these blunt moments can be forgiven in the light of an otherwise touching romance and understated science fiction element.

Nieprzekonujacy, nudny, sztuczny. Potencjal na dobry film byl, ale nie zostal wykorzystany.

Touching end.

Is there some hidden genius that I am missing? The film has moments of stark, uninspired beauty wrapping itself in the scenery of an English countryside in perpetual summer and the approach to tell the story of a character's life with a half hour spent with an uneventful childhood affects the pacing like a heavy weight. Its easy to fake being profound or deep by wrapping fatalism in sentimental warmth and representing naivety as depth.

This is a very subtle, and quiet film, with a powerful story. Carey Mulligan continues to show that she is one of the best young actresses of this generation. It is very bleak, but incredibly captivating. It moves at a very nice pace, given the way it is filmed, and its subtlety. One of the best films of 2010.

What a terrible film! Why didn't they run? hide? escape in some other obscure way? No clue! There was no establishment of any construct that would explain this behavior. There was nothing worth seeing in this film...unless you have a prude fetish.

Watch the Island, ignore this film. This is a desperate attempt at drama cut off at the knees by a complete failure to explain whatever construct this fantasy world is built on. The character's emotions, actions, and intentions are all incomprehensible, due to the fact that the film makes no attempt at explaining the construct so that the viewer can understand what's happening. PS: I am not a confused old man. I figured out the Prestige's s plot from the trailer and the opening credits.

"Say this for Never Let Me Go, the new film adaptation of Kazua Ishiguro's celebrated novel: you haven't seen anything like it at the movies this year."

Some narrative issues aside, "Never Let Me Go" is an all-round excellent movie. All the leads are very good, & Romanek's photography is lovely too. Where this movie really succeeds is in becoming a challanging morality tale, that is played out compellingly in the form of a dystopian romantic tragedy! Romanek was right to focus on the characters rather than any sci-fi or sociological elements in my opinion, & as such I would have loved to have seen the characters youths explored a little deeper.

Perhaps it says more about me than anything else that I become impatient with movies that seem overly preoccupied with the "delicacy" of human emotion. However original the idea, the execution was all too by-the-numbers, and the actors seemed to have been directed to give mannered performances with much pausing between words and phrases. The longer it went on, the slighter its virtues seemed. The conclusion was simply trite. Yet another film in the thrall of orange-and-teal colour filtering.