Beautiful, moving film.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I liked the movie for the most part. 10 minutes before the end of the movie I would have given it 6.5 stars.. Now, although I truly have absolutely no idea what was actually happening- it now gets 8 stars for that ending. That infinite audio 'rise' and the unexpected visuals completely blew my mind!! What I'm thinking is that those energy starfish looking things were from another dimension and once he had completely bonded with them he turned into energy and was teleported into their dimension. Really though, who knows.. He could have just been a sacrifice to the energy starfish. OR the energy starfish were the body's natural defence to the nano-bots. OR he was already completely nano-bot saturated/bonded and therefore would have had a wireless connection to calm/update/program the other nano- bots in the other people..

I really wanted to like this film, since I've had good luck with French flicks lately as well as being interested in the neat little cast assembled here. Among them are Lambert Wilson (the Merovingian himself) and Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen, Amelie, etc...). Mix in a little Cube, throw in a dash of Alien 3 and sprinkle in some Powder for good measure and you have the undercooked hodgepodge of Dante 01. Good sci-fi is hard to come by these days, mainly because I think it's the most high concept genre of film as well as the hardest to execute really well. Unfortunately, despite some very interesting ideas and good production values, it doesn't add up to much of anything when it was all over. Wilson's main character has almost zero lines in the film and isn't really even a main character. If you're going to have your main character remain essentially silent, that's fine, but for the love of Odin please make him interesting. I completely understood what was going on, but it just didn't register with me as much as I was hoping it would. There is a sequence just before the last shot of the film with Wilson outside in space that was just so agonizingly excessive that I was swearing at the screen for it to stop, which I hardly ever do. Maybe you'll have a different opinion, which is fine. But for me, no dice.

This film may not be for everyone, but for those who like to venture a bit outside the box, and then some, this may be just your cup of tea.There are some beautiful and intriguing graphics, but this is not a big blazing special effects sort of film. That's not the point here (refreshingly so, I might add).Of course, I'm not going to describe the ending, except to say there are multiple potential interpretations, which may (or may not) have been by initial intentional design, but the end result does leave this open ended aspect to the story.But the story itself is interesting . . .The orbiting prison space station and its odd collection of prisoners and its technical / scientific crew (I'll let the viewer decide which is more dysfunctional / insane / evil).Then comes the mysterious new prisoner arrival . . .accompanied by the amazingly beautiful and evil quasi corporate scientist with her experimental but potentially profitable nano-inoculations and . . .It's at this point things quickly get off to an evermore darkish chain of events.As others have noted, there are some gaps in the evolving story . . . perhaps due to budget and deadline limitations, which I can sympathize with.Given that, I still give this production a lot of credit for an ambitious and interesting attempt at this sort of genre' within the scifi artform.

I really enjoyed this film. The cast, acting, cinematography, sets, script all top-notch. Many of critical of the Christian symbolism etc, I really didn't find any of that over-the-top at all. What's in a name? Not a helleva lot. The film itself has moments of utter psychological distress which I couldn't help to feel personally. Emotionally I was really drawn to this film. Sure it's not perfect but for a different take on the sci-fi genre (the French always do things differently) it has its place amongst others than are original and don't follow a distinct formula. The end had such an intense visual climax it was like a massive, visceral, abstract, surreal overload. The sort of thing I'm always looking for in electronic music - hard to find but nothing feels quite like it when you do. Don't be put off by all of the negative comments, I think this film deserves your support. And keep an open mind. Having an appreciation of the abstract helps. This film shouldn't be taken too literally.