the audience applauded

i must have seen a different film!!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

"Babel," an extraordinary film from master filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu is a true sensation, a story that hits hard and stays with you. Circling around three intertwined stories on three continents, the lives of very different yet similar people are explored in poetic fashion. "Babel" focuses on how misunderstandings shape our lives and how people all over the world can be connected through shared tragedy. What Innaritu does that makes this masterpiece so successful and effective is have characters who seem so real as if we're watching a do commentary. Few films have a cast that is so dynamically good and authentic in their true to life performances. This is a story that leaves a hole in your heart and moves you deeply. "Babel" is a knockout in storytelling and a beautiful work of sensational art.

One of the best movies I ever watched. Kikuchi Rinko was incredible. But how I got there was very long. I watched Kong Skull Island and one of the stars Jing Tian was in Pacific Rim which also starred Kikuchi Rinko. Looking further into Kikuchi's career, I saw Kikuchi was nominated for an Oscar for Babel. When I watched that, I thought it was a great performance by Kikuchi, but also one of the best films I ever watched.

a film. many stories. great actors. Babel has the gift to be more than a film. or giving a story. or proposing characters. it is a sort of manifesto. about the roots of every day reality. about the price of success, happiness, love, sacrifices, victories, sadness. and that did it a sort of poem. about its public more than about the evolution of characters. a film about mark of gestures. about decisions and believes and science to accept the truth. it is not easy to define it. because entire film is in the space of the frame of the last scenes. a film about ordinaries people. in a labyrinth. as parts of labyrinth. looking the second chance. or, more exactly, the essence of freedom against yourselves.

This movie, like Crash (2004), follows the idea of interlocking stories that come together at the end, demonstrating some sort of human "butterfly effect" or cause-and-effect relationship between human events. While director, Allejandro Gonzalez Inarritu DID have some success in this genre with his DEATH TRILOGY: Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006). The later, the one reviewed here, seemed totally contrived and unbelievable to me. Here, three seemly separate stories in distant locations—San Diego (and Mexico), Morocco (and Tunisia) and Tokyo—come together in the end. But, to pull these stories together to make some sort of statement, I had to stretch credulity beyond MY ability.==Why would an American couple go to Morocco to straighten their marital difficulties?==Why would a Japanese man visit Morocco to hunt? I think that Inarritu was trying to make statements about three VERY disparate current issues--gun control, illegal immigration, and fear of terrorism. But, he seemed forced to stray TOO far to cram all these issues into one movie.BUT STILL, themes DO come though in the movie: 1) that there is a lack of communication between cultures and languages; 2) that we all have common ground as humans beings; 3) that we all face unknown fears; and that we all share certain hopes and fears.AND ANOTHER THEME that seemed clear to me, had to do with the innocence and vulnerability of children and the need to recognize that fact: The most moving of the stories was the segment about a young Japanese deaf- mute girl and her feeling of alienation--from both her family, her friends, and ultimately, herself.