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(1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1   1/5 "...a puerile, preachy mess"   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 1.5/4 "The picture is elongated to a punishing two hours of suffering, infuriatingly slavish screenwriting, and a director who should be gifted the miracle of a tripod this upcoming holiday season."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf "...fails because the source material doesn't easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth."   PopMatters   Chris Barsanti 1.5/5 "What was a poetic, exhaustively-brilliant piece of fiction has now become a clunky, clattering, ever-collapsing film of bludgeoning rhetoric"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin C- "Director Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Jose Saramago's allegorical novel about a society that goes blind loses all credibility in Don McKellar's particularly naïve screenplay."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 1/4 "...an utterly misguided disaster that's a sure candidate for the worst of the year."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C- "A ridiculous allegorical story that must be taken literally to be believed even though it's so absurd."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "An unnerving, disorienting fable of the darkest order."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/5 "Una esmerada aunque tibia adaptación de una novela difícil de llevar a imágenes, que es toda una alegoría de un mundo en decadencia."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "I found the depiction of a total breakdown in society's niceties compelling, harrowing, and fascinating."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider D- "Stylistically fussy and dramatically confused...a what-if story that's become a pointless so-what movie."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "Salutes the vision that sees invisible things, cares for others, and refuses to abandon hope."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "An absorbing (if admittedly flawed) thought-piece. It engaged me throughout and I found the ending to be surprisingly hopeful."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "Fernando Meirelles tackles José Saramago's searing stream of consciousness novel with intriguing but mixed results."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 3.5/5 "poso ashimi mporei na ginei mia anthropotita dihos anthropia, an den mporei kaneis na dei tin ashimia tis, i an to thes allios, poso mporei na anteksei i ofthalmapati tis koinonikis ithikis, otan den mporei kaneis na se dei na tin kseskizeis"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis B+ "Brilliant production design compliments the film with its 'warning' flashes of white (a coat, headlights)in the hours before catastrophy strikes and a quick descent into hell once it does..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[An] unnerving trill on the classic sci-fi disaster movie: think an arthouse Day of the Triffids."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson .5/5 "A relentless eyesore -- like looking into the sky and having sand poured into your eyes."   Film Threat   Matthew Sorrento C- "The director's parade of self-conscious compositions and pushy musical cues ... prove most repellent of all."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Representa ums promissora oportunidade para que Meirelles desenvolva uma ampla alegoria sobre os rumos que a sociedade ocidental moderna vem tomando."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "It suggests what might have resulted if Lars Von Trier had been hired to stage a production of "Marat/Sade" that was cast entirely with Joe Cocker impersonators."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4.5/5 "Depth and relevance make up for the somewhat over-egged filmmaking"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "The adventurous should give the movie -- and absolutely the book -- a shot. But if it's not your thing, I'm not about to tell you it should be."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B+ "...a thriller, horror yarn and character study that brings to my mind "The Lord of the Flies" with its feel of a societal shipwreck that divides the world into its most primitive elements of good against evil."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 3/10 "...watching Blindness feels a lot like being jerked around for two hours by someone who is so caught up in his own cleverness that he feels no need to explain or justify anything."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh 6/10 "A dreary apocalyptic allegory.."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "A movie rotten with the fear that the audience might possibly miss the point if the filmmakers don't hammer us over the head repeatedly."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 1/4 "The problem with Blindness is Meirelles' bad habit of making a terrible hash of something already done with more eloquence"   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 4/4 "A stark, uncompromising look at a dark part of human existence exposed when the most basic sense is taken away."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell 3/5 Read review   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick Read review   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley Read review   Cinematical   James Rocchi  (1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1