Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Taha Avalos
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Roxie
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
jacobd77
The movie was slow paced with very little action. At times it was even confusing at to what was going on between Sandy and Hiromitsu Tachibana because of the lack of dialogue. The accents of both characters also make the movie hard to follow because you have to decipher a Japanese and Australian accent often during a single conversation. In between the slow dialogue (SPOILER!!!!!!!), there is a sudden awkward sex scene (Sandy put pants on) between the two after only knowing each other for a few days and then Hiro abruptly and dramatically dying after diving into the shallow end of a small body of water like a child into a pool for the first time. This movie is a great example of nonverbal communication and great for a class to watch and analyze, but not so much for entertainment purposes. If you are a nonverbal communications teacher at any level of education, you need to have you students watch this movie regardless of an awkward sex scene. And yes that means high school students as well. It's the human body so we need to get past censoring the human bodies in schools.
kwhite12
Japanese story was an interesting movie. Death seemed to be a foreshadowing characteristic of this movie when the movie opened up into sandy discussing obituaries with her mother. While aesthetically pleasing to the eye as far as the scenery, I found the story line to be entirely unbelievable. The relationship between Sandy and Hiromitsu moved too quickly to be believable. The interactions between them were awkward at best. The whole movie had kind of a strained feeling, and it just seemed kind of thrown together with a half baked storyline. The movie left something to be desired as far as the plot and the character relationships.
Atreyu_II
This is a pretty poor film. It doesn't captivate much. Its story is flawed. The scenario is a mix of stunning Australian landscape and crude American background. The acting by Gotaro Tsunashima is okay as Hiromitsu, but Toni Collette's acting as Sandy is inferior in comparison to her acting in 'The Sixth Sense'. There ain't no true chemistry between the lead actors, even when they forgot all about their mutual hate and fell in love with each other.The only funnier moments are whenever the Japanese guy is saying things about Sandy on the telephone in Japanese so that she doesn't have a clue of what he is saying.The swimming scene confused me because I didn't get how the Japanese guy died. I mean, she jumped in perfectly well and he just died? And how did he get that scratch.
kenjha
A Japanese businessman visits Australia and is given a tour of the land by a geologist, although they can't stand each other from the get go. Although it's not clear where the story is going, it becomes engaging as the relationship develops between the Japanese man and the Australian woman despite their cultural differences. About half way through the film, however, a random event takes place that totally changes the mood and direction of the movie. From that point on it just rambles aimlessly before finishing with a whimper. The two halves are like watching two different movies. It's just an odd script. Collette is fine as usual, as is Tsunashima.
