Free Zone

okay movie

Inspired opening!

While the beginning scene is quite inspired, I feel like the movie never lives up to that. Putting image over image like the film liked to do was a bad choice. I didn't care that much about anything going on. Portman is nice to look at but when is she not? The ending was mildly amusing though... so basically the beginning and end are both good but the rest is decent at best.

The opening sequence is one of the most hypnotic and mesmerizing I've seen recently. The three lead actresses manage to sublimate a relatively erratic and yet powerful screenplay. Gitai at its best.

The first half hour is pretty good, but the last hour is tedious and uninteresting. I really don't like middle eastern culture at all, and the second half of this is drenched in it. There was barely a plot, and the ending was just pointless.There was no resolve in the ending, and not in an ambiguous way, in a way where it seems like they just decided to cut out the last 15 minutes. It looked like it was supposed to be meaningful, but it wasn't. Natalie Portman did a good performance though.

"Addressing conflict by conflicting itself, Free Zone's effect is almost avant-garde." - Ed Gonzalez

Wow, I never would have imagined that I'd find a movie starring Natalie Portman that I would not like. Well this is one of the worst movies I've seen, so I recommend you don't bother even trying to watch this absolutely terrible so called movie. The director is absolutely horrible, the first 10 minutes is Natalie sitting and then crying. WTF? Then they speak in Jewish or Arabic or whatever the hell they are speaking so what they are saying is anyones guess. This movie sucks bad!

Filmi izlemeden once buyuk beklentilee sahiptim ki ilk yarisi bu beklentiyi buyuk bir oranda karsiladi ancak ikinci kisimdaki kopukluk ve sikicilik filme olan beklentimi yok etti ve o sekilde de bitti. -------- Before the movie i had big hope and also i did know opening scene of movie before the watching movie and first part was pretty good and other part was uninteresting and boring however i liked acting and directing and also musics were perfect.