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It's been a while that I think IMDb is rigged but this time it is so much in the face that I had to step up and say something. Only 1 day after its release The Interview is 3rd better movie ever, and has 58,000+ votes?

There is always a ratio between the number of votes and the number of reviews and this time something is obviously wrong. A ratio of 58,000:160 is never seen for any movie, so there is evidence here of fake votes.

Also it seems that the propaganda machine is running full speed on this movie. Soon a movie about killing Putin? That's how it is working in America? This country is sick and these votes are rigged, simple statistics.

The webmaster here needs to check the logs and see how these people could hack the vote system. The credibility of this website is at sake.

Some NSA hackers at work?

I spent 2 hours looking this movie and I am sure I will forget it totally tomorrow. It was a good brain cleaning experience. Like looking 2 hours of commercials, or an old fashion Bip Bip cartoon! There is no deep, no surprise, nothing really interesting, but the movie shines with a good feeling of an Heroic Fantasy sci-fi Start Trek... There are some ridiculous moments and if you have an IQ above 80, you will probably notice that the writers apparently does not know that in space there is no gravity. One action scene is based on that and it is so ridiculous that it becomes almost entertaining... like looking Beavis and Buckhead! So it is not totally crap that's why I give 2 *, but it is close.

I am still puzzled by having spent 2 hours looking this movie. What is shocking me the most is how so many people didn't felt the same? Basically what you see is the training of a kid to go to war and kill legions of enemies without asking who they are, why they are here, and basically just killing them, as if it was through a video game. The whole film I was thinking that is not right. If he was an Arab and training in with a A-47 in the hand that would be unbearable, like looking 2 hours of rapes in a row, but here, it sounds acceptable. There is no blood, nobody cries, it is only machines, spaceships fighting. But the weird feeling was sticky through all the movie, with its cold look, with too many CGI and not enough good acting. Harrison Ford is not doing good in this movie, and his end of career goes to the opposite way someone like Clint Eastwood for example. Most actors were OK, and the main character was doing a good job at being close to crying all the time. The whole movie it totally depressing. Should I mention that the end does not have any sense and is the most ridiculous ending I have ever seen? The director does not know where he stands... what is the message? It seems that this movie is a propaganda command from the US army to plug into our head that having our kids learning how to kill with a joystick at school is acceptable? Disturbing resume this movie, after seeing it I have a little bit of hangover...

I have just seen "Cloud Atlas" and it is a painful piece of crap to see. Sorry for the ones who think it is art, but it is really boring and confusing. Most of all it is a huge waste of money. Some talented director would have made 6 movies with this money, but the Watchowsky Brothers decided to make one movie with 6 stories, just to demonstrate that even if we die, love is a link between all our life. Brilliant but 3 hours to explain that, having sliced the stories in 30 seconds to 2 minutes slices jumping in time and going all over the place even in space?!?! Impossible to relate to any characters, hard to follow any stories, no suspense.

Worse, the music is awful, no epic theme, just a slow boring piano and string loop for 3 hours. I can remember 2 different themes no more in such a long movie. Where are the good composers who were doing music on screen? It is sounding like a long trailer and Audiomachine would have made a better job for the score.

There are maybe 2 action scenes hahaha... so awful, it is slow like "Out of Africa" without the picture, the light, the power and the music. I can love complex movies, but here, with modern computers, slicing movies all over the place is not something that deserves an Oscar, it can be done with an After Fx script! So if you want to loose 3 hours of your life go and see it. You have been warned, even in DVD: avoid.

There is nothing to criticize about this movie. It is made as subtle and touching a movie can be. It never goes into emotions more than necessary. The music, the story, the acting, everything is perfectly orchestrated. It is delicate and beautiful in all the sense of the term. It is such a shame that Morgan Freeman didn't got an award, it would have been well deserved. Stephen King wrote again a masterpiece, like the Green Mile, from the same author and the same film director. Frank Darabont execute this story more in a tone that reminds me "Out of Africa". The prison is a character by itself, all the actors including the secondary roles are just perfect. Watching this movie remains us the true meaning of hope, and that everything is possible.

But what are you doing here? Rather than reading reviews, just buy it, rent it and see it. It is one kind of a unique movie that you will never forget.

I have enjoyed the 2 first opus, for different reasons. The 1st one was a bit like a Disney/teen movie, funny and the story between Megan Fox and Shia LaBouf was cute, my kids loved it. In the second opus, it was more about pure action, like the 2nd Alien, robot fighting without any plot whatsoever I liked it because I am a fan of CGI and Sci-Fi movies...

However, I always found that Megan Fox was great here to compensate the excessive number of robots and metal, cars and trucks in the movie. Her character could have been more deep and I was expecting that M.Bay would give her a chance one day.

The first thing that really made me spend a bad time in the theater is that each time I saw Rosie Huntington-Whiteley I was thinking "she does not match". It is like having Lara Croft instead of Ripley in Aliens. Then, in my opinion, the chemistry between the 2 main character was not working at all.

I have nothing personal against Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, she is probably a great artist, but she do not do a good job at replacing Megan Fox. It distracted me to the point that I could not connect with the characters. Too much boom, bang swing, splash and no connection: I started watching my watch... There is a point where CGI and technical skills, kills the movie if there is nothing else. I got enough action in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, so I was not so impressed by the new actions scenes. Since Godzilla, blowing up things is nothing new...

It seems that M.Bay decided to follow the Batman, or Star Wars series where the 3rd opus is more dramatic and dark than the other ones.

But to get back to my point, robots even with a soul cannot replace the cute face of Megan Fox. Even if she was not the best actress (or she had the worse script and dialogs, we will never know), she was bringing some human beauty and feelings to the opposite mechanical actors, giving Shia a real goal to save his lovely lady: this was connecting me with the characters and adding some humanity to an otherwise very cold movie...

M.Bay maybe think he can replace an actress with another, but us, the public will greatly miss Megan Fox. Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon is like a good and expensive meal where the Cook forgot to salt. I wish they did 2 versions and they could switch to the version with Megan, because without her, this movie series lost its heart.

I really loved the Bourne's movies but Angelina Jolie is not as good as Matt Damon period! Salt is a big disappointment. The character is lifeless and Angelina is not playing as good as Andy in Toy Story. I don't see why Hollywood bothers paying an actress so much when she does not act better than a 90's CGI character. The Avatars have more expression and feeling than Angelina in the whole movie, wearing a mask like if she was made in plastic or a bad CGI render.

This movie is like a big fat burger, in the middle, you ask yourself if you will be able to finish it, and at the end, you want to puke..

The worse in the movie is the wobble effect to the camera. Like in Bourne Ultimatum they use and abuse of the jerking/wobbling/shaking effect. It is like if you watch the movie on a boat. It is nauseous. This makes all action sequences harder to focus.

Once you notice the effect, you cannot watch the movie anymore, it is so over used that you ask yourself why they did they add this all the time?

Maybe wait the DVD, I think the movie will be easier to see on a TV screen than on the big screen for the reason explained before.

If you have some money to spend, there are much better movies this summer. I'll see Inception again, Hollywood, you can do better than Salt!

I'm not a fan of James Cameron.

He did Aliens 2, but Aliens 1 - the original made by Ridley Scott - was by far the best of the series. The Alien 2 was a big battle against Aliens with as only spot the fight of 2 Mother for the little kid (the Alien Queen against Ripley). Otherwise some good special effects at this time but no real innovation. I was disappointed.

OK he did Abyss, and I remember that everyone was saying WOW about the creature made in water. Now it is just a boring movie to see, all the special Fx looks dated and the script has no originality... disappointing.

He did True Lies... Mrs and Mr Smith is just 1000 times better. Have you seen True Lies lately? Arnold sucks, and the movie is a classic Hollywood crappy action movie... B style. Really disappointing...

Well he did Titanic, a beautiful romance with a good scripts that surfs on the publics feelings like a Dolphin, helped by the Celine Dion song and James Horner's excellent score. I loved this movie and that's the only movie I consider to be a Masterpiece in James Cameron's career.

Why everyone thinks that Cameron created the Alien series (he did only the Number 2), or the Terminator series (he did only the number 2 as well).

James Cameron has been always the Number 2, the sequel specialist, or a blockbuster maker with no originality.

Where is the magic in Avatar? I didn't cried like in Titanic, I didn't worried about the kid like in Alien 2, I didn't liked the script like in Terminator 2...

But if you think about what this movie represents, after seeing it in 3D, and in regard of what the cinema is in 2009, this movie is as powerful as was the 9th Beethoven Symphony when it was first played in Vienna in 1824.

There are a lot of good movies, but how many movies are such a step in the future, such a visual firework, such an emotional roller-coaster and such a beautiful soul and message, connected so deeply with our time all together? James Cameron put in this movie all the best of what we can expect from the cinema industry in 2009, but 20 years ahead of his time.

That's in my opinion the mark of a genius, a visionary like Orson Wells or Jules Verne. He absorbed our time and made a beautiful tale that touch your heart, while using the most advanced technology. His mastering as a director is unbelievable. At the end, when the 3d and the 2d meets together, you take a slap in the face like never before.

Cameron is at the top of his art and being a witness of this is an extraordinary feeling.

Avatar is unique, an impossible to describe experience, and a milestone for the centuries to come...

I've read these comments with attention and saw this movie yesterday. And I think everyone here get it wrong. It is sad to see that most people have not seen the amazing message hidden behind all the CGI and Special FX.

Yes Emmerich has done a great classic with all the ingredients for a success: simple story, presentation of the characters, explanation of the phenomenon, and then the catastrophic events and how the characters are going to escape and finally an happy end. Your bag of popcorn is empty and you come back home with the feeling you spent 10 bucks and got for your money in the face.

Now this movie is also like Indiocracy a very intelligent movie behind the visual. Let me explain why:

1- Roland Emerich know that 90% of his audience is brainless and will explain all the scientific justification with a little cartoon that even a 10 year old kid will understand. It clearly shows that the director knows exactly what he does and who is watching. This guy is a mad scientist, this guy is the president, this guy is... every symbol is simple enough so you can check your Text messages while watching the movie and still follow the story...that's for the dumb guys.

BUT

2- The US president is very different than in these kind of movies. He is not an Hero, he is just a modest black man who his not going (thanks god!) to make an endless speech about how great America is. He has empathy, There is no real bad guys in this movie, they are just more inhuman and realistic about the situation, like all the bankers we see everyday in the news... But in this movie there are no really caricature of a bad guy who does not understand what is happening ...

3- There are a lot of symbols that are destroyed in this movie. No one have understood the aircraft carrier smashing the white house symbol? The Vatican is destroyed why not a Mosque or a Boudha temple? And some strong biblical symbols too, I let you find them.

4- who is going to save the world? I don't want to spoil the movie, but at NO time it is said that it is America. In fact, almost all the countries together are working to that, the US president is always respectful of the international community, explain to the NATO and decisions are not made in the White House only, and we are far away from "The Day after" and these movies where only America is saved in a patriotic boring hymn. Not in that movie.

5- There is a huge symbol with the people who make the ships and the healthy 1% who paid their ticket to survive. This is not a random stupid idea, it is nothing else than another Emmerich strong political message. Think about what did happened this year and transpose... Something is melting down right now and that's not the Earth...

6- at the end, replace the words of the hero about opening the gates with a call to the humanity that has a much broader meaning than most stupid movies. Emmerich had something to say to the world of a biblical proportion and he does it strongly and powerfully in this movie...

I think most people will understand the real Emmerich message when the DVD will be out there. This movie is an incredible spectacular movie, but it delivers a true message. The real meltdown is a financial meltdown and a meltdown of our values and culture...

There is not bad military guy in this movie, no good hero who save the world. Just a bunch of healthy paying their tickets, while the Indians who discovered everything and Chinese who made it possible to escape are dying...

That's not just random... Thanks Roland Emmerich for having hidden this deep message behind this blockbuster full of special FX. You have successfully spent 250 Millions of $ to deliver a very powerful message to the world, that will I'm sure with time be understood... this movie as an historic milestone and a mirror of what did happened in October 2009.

Hollywood always follow our history someway or another... In this movie Roland Emmerich brightly destroys all the symbols of greedy America, Washington, Christianity and the savers are the international community, the NATO, Chinese and Indians and Buddhists... Who said this movie is another stupid Hollywood movie?

Now go watch the movie with another perspective...

After seeing this movie, you can't imagine it was written by a 14 year old teenager, who is also the main actress and the director...(she was 16 when she did the movie)

There is such a maturity in the writing, such a poetry in the words.

The pictures, lightning, the music and the actors are consistent and depicts with a rare subtlety what true love is seen though the eyes of the 3 women in this movie.

It is all about love, love between a mom and his son, between a son and his dad, a daughter and her mom, a niece and her taunt... and of course between two teenagers.

Not only this movie is good, emotional, weird, genuine, but it also have a real unique ambiance and personality.

It is attaching as are the characters. Nothing is scripted and predictable, this movie avoid the clichés of this genre.

Anne Sophie Dutoit is a genius.

When I saw the trailer and was very excited to see this movie. The story is inspired from Philip K Dick PreCog and Psycog ideas and I was thinking : "great!".

The script is not bad and the authors must be ashamed by the result in this movie.

The main problem is not the actors, or the story, or even the direction, but the music.

Imagine some Ambient Asian music in a middle of an action scene? There is NO SUB BASS!!! My sub-woofer stayed dead all along the movie. No suspense music, just some B grade Honk Kong video game style music.

What a shame, because the idea was great, some actors were very attaching and some pictures of Honk Hong were very nice.

I was feeling like watching a great movie with a porno Miami style music... someone should be fired! If one day they remix the movie removing 30 min of useless scenes, adding some good suspense music (like the Dark Knight, ask Hanz Zimmer he will do a better job), this movie would be great...

I disagree with all the very snobby critics about this movie I read here. Who cares if it is the sequel of another movie a book or an essay, this movie is well done, very scary and Jessica Alba is doing a great performance. Overall you can't be disappointed. It is in my opinion much better than the 6th Sense which has better reviews, even if Bruce Willis is kind of lame in this movie and the end is Kubrickesque... So if you want to rent this movie and have a great time, it is a really good movie for the regular mob like me, and you will spend a really scary night... Note that the end does not disappoint, you don't feel frustrated like most Shyamalan movies for example!