Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Il film, diretto dal giovane spagnolo Juan Antonio Bayona (The orphanage) ha dalla sua una sceneggiatura rigorosa che parte da una storia vera, per mettere in scena una storia familiare di coraggio e fortuna.
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: The Impossible, however clearly belongs to Tom Holland…
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Many, many people died in the 2004 tsunami. Without a doubt, there can be value in telling a tale of survival but by proving itself valueless, The Impossible leaves a crass impression, as if a little bit of lightweight uplift and the wiping of a few tears from a cheek can make two hundred thousand deaths somehow palatable.
- [New – 4/25] | Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: Even ignoring the Anglicization, the film is easier to like than love.
- Enrique Buchichio @ Cartelera.com.uy [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Lo imposible debe ser uno de los ejemplos de cine catástrofe más angustiosos que se recuerden, porque se concentra en el drama humano más que en la espectacularidad de un evento trágico.
- Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Naomi Watts deja todo para construír el papel justo en una historia conmovedora.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …once the disaster portion of [Bayona’s] film has subsided, we’re left with a story of coincidence and cliche.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [T]he juxtaposition of the two stories — the family’s and those in the background — puts the entirety of this story in the proper context.
- Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: This is film paint-by-numbers at its cynical worst, sinking any chance to help people understand and empathize with human misery on a grand scale.
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Viscerally vigorous, it’s a grim, gritty, graphic chronicle of disaster.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFiiosopher.com
- Excerpt: It’s a disaster movie, but not as we know it…
- Daniel Kelly @ eFilmCritic
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- [New – 4/25] | Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Spanish film director Juan Antonio Bayona has, in two films, defined himself as one of the best young voices working in film today.
- Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: The Impossible may be schmaltz, but it’s damn good schmaltz.
- Piers Marchant @ Sweet Smell of Success
- Excerpt: Easily the most pissed off I’ve been at a film this year. Wrong-minded, tone deaf and utterly infuriating.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: This is one of the most gut-wrenching and emotional pictures I’ve ever seen. I walked away from it physically exhausted.
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: The Impossible is a living, breathing document – a testament to both the frailty and strength of the human condition, a reminder of how small we are, and how large.
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: A whitewash…
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: A humanistic portrait that gives the disaster both an intimate perspective and a frightening scope.
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ Portland Mercury
- Excerpt: Luckily, backward corporate policies don’t stop “The Impossible” from being a pretty good movie—and if you can ignore the color of their skin, all the actors turn in outstanding performances. Bayona otherwise avoids scrubbing up the reality of the situation to make his movie prettier, instead sticking to a straight-ahead aesthetic that’s all about the journey.
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The movie treads water, and never catches the wave.
- Márcio Sallem @ Cinema com Crítica [Portuguese]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: The Impossible is aptly named in that it portrays an unimaginable natural tragedy. But in its depiction of the humans affected by the tsunami, it shows the opposite – what is possible – when we come together to face the sudden and unknown horrors of life, that at any moment, can come crashing down on us all.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Yet one more example of a real-life story someone thought would “make a great movie,” “The Impossible” is as flat and predictable as they come.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
- Excerpt: It’s practically impossible to resist the pull of this film.
- Phil Villarreal @ Becauseitoldyouso.com
- Excerpt: It’s nearly impossible to do better than buying a ticket to The Impossible.
- George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd [Greek]
