Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Martin Teller The DVD case likens this to "a Spanish language SLACKER" which isn't entirely off, but it reminded me more of CLERKS or STRANGER THAN PARADISE. The thing is, I don't like any of the films I just mentioned. Rudderless youths hanging around, whoop-de-friggin-do. Watching TV, being bored, meeting mildly oddball characters, smoking pot, talking about their girl troubles, blah blah blah. Fortunately, I did kind of like these three guys. They have a fun rapport, busting each other's balls and so forth. Some of the situations and conversations are fairly amusing... but others aren't. The raw black & white cinematography is a familiar route for this milieu, and it services the film well enough. But Rebello and Stoll indulge in a number of stylistic choices that I found more annoying than clever: 360-degree camera spins, quick cutaways, interior monologues. It's the sort of thing that screams "directorial debut". There were parts of the film I enjoyed, but not enough to give it a very strong recommendation.

Pepper Anne I rented this movie, interested in seeing what influences this South American team of filmmakers had taken from the slacker genre which, in particular, Richard Linklater made a cult genre with the 1990 release of 'Slacker.' But just as Slacker was to me one of the most boring films on the planet, so too is 25 Watts, which offers absolutely no variation and nothing new in the genre. This is a film that, just like its American influence, is just as though you and your friends were so completely bored and walked around doing really nothing and vomiting inane conversations at length. I wouldn't think anyone would find it particularly interesting for me to do this in real life. So what's the fascination with it as it is replicated into a genre of film? If you have been impressed with these cult films, before, however, then you'll probably enjoy 25 Watts. I imagine that most of the rave reviews for this film on IMDb did come from people who can stand watching hours and hours of this kind of pseudo-intellectual crap.

RagingR2 This film depicts an average day in the life of three young men in Montevideo (Uruguay) in a very funny way.The adventures of these guys are bound to entertain you even though, or more likely because they are adventures on a tragically small scale. Even when our heroes are bored a few laughs are just around the corner. The array of sympathetic, hilarious and strange characters that crosses the screen is so colorful I almost forgot that I was watching a film in black and white.And besides that, the realism that comes to your screen is a refreshment in the Hollywood-dominated world of film.

todocine01 I'm from Uruguay and movies here are not so good. But this year five uruguayan films have been made. One of them beat a record in the box-office. But the best of that five films, was "25 Watts". With only 200.000 dollars, Rabella and Stoll (writers and directors of the film) wrote an exellent screenplay and direct the movie in a memorable way.The story is about three boys that dont do nothing but they have lot problems in the job, with studies, and other things like that. The result is an exellent "opera-prima", a first prize in the Rotterdam Festival, a first prize of best opera-prima in the Coral Awards and a pre-nomination to the Goyas Awards.For me the best uruguayan film of the year and the history.