this movie has a snail pace...the characters were so dull and really complicated in thier life and issues that it just seemed to drag on...but oh man does this movie have a cruel and suprize ending..and it needed it..cause without it this movie would have been a below zero

Spectacular imagery. Poetic.

Disturbing horror film, not for everyone I think, but I quite like this way of making films

"Beart delivers a very good performance as the desperately obsessed mother slowly going insane, the atmosphere and cinematography are stunning, with the thick jungle dread and wild inhabitants blending with emotional deliria. But the characters' stupidity and muddled motives keep distracting, and the ending tries to combine psychological drama, horror, and surrealism, each undermining each other."

A very slow but unstoppable descent into hell. I can't remember the last time I've felt such a sense of isolation, uncertainty and being lost when watching a film. The experience is pretty draining though, and near the end you don't have any more damns left to give. It's also frustrating to see the irrational behavior of Emmanuelle Béart's character, once the sympathy for what she must be going through has gone. If you like scary-looking children, you're gonna love this.

not an exaggeration to say that this is one of the most extraordinary evocations of place ever put to film, raging with a threatening, bewildering beauty that would do aguirre-era herzog proud. the obvious contemporary comparison point is antichrist; it's a very, very similar film, another couple's fevered odyssey into the heart of grief for a lost son. it suffers from self-indulgence in places, plus there's no talking fox :(, but the overall experience is frightening and totally singular.

I LOVE the ending - it was trashy & fun. But the rest of the film is boring and annoying. Very big dissapointment considering previous du Welz's work.

I didn't care for the ending, but overall this is an effective psychological drama about the strain losing a child has on a couple.

"Descent into madness" movie which probably owes some inspiration to Apocalypse Now / Heart of Darkness. A desperate European couple search for their lost child in the dangerous jungles of southeast Asia. Some very effective scenes, but others which are just confusing, silly or boring. Interesting idea but no legs or consistency.

like being dropped into a tropical nightmare.....

Weird tale of a couple searching for their lost child in middle-of-nowhere Burma that quickly devolves into a wanna-be study of how parents react to losing their children. Unfortunately this idea never really congeals into something worthwhile, leaving a lot of wooden acting from Rufus Sewell interspersed with some truly inspired, Apocalypse Now-ish cinematography.

Complete crap, preposterous, terribly slow from start to finish, not even slightly scary, not even slightly horrific. This is the worst movie I've seen in a while. I also have no idea how the bit at the end got past approval boards.