Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

klemm1 This movie is pure, unadulterated crap. Characters are uninspired and totally lost. The actors are asked to say and do such stupid things for no reason it is embarrassing. The script is such a mess it is hard to even begin how terrible it is. I think an 7th grade child could write a better script. There is nothing remotely good about this film. Don't waste you time watching this tripe. Anyone who gives this more than 1 Star should be banished to Iceland to live with the monster... it better killed by the monster.I think this could be a cult film It is so awful.

georjekc128 I want to nominate for the Obscure Movie of the Month...No Such thing.A delightful and imaginative 'monster movie' that sent me immediately to IMDb to give it my 10 points where I was glad but not surprised to see that I was not in the minority Where do I start to explain a horror movie that has no comparison except *maybe* Beauty and the Beast ?In a America where terrorists regularly load dynamite on to the Manhattan bridge and subways are routinely evacuated because of nerve gas releases a young unappreciated journalist is allowed by her chain smoking, sensation seeking news editor, played with aplomb by Helen Mirren, to go to Iceland in search of her missing fiancé, a camera crew member, only to wind up the lone survivor of a trans Atlantic airplane crash and pieced back together by doctors. Once healed some six months later she resumes her journey and the search for her fiancé. Arriving in an obscure region of Iceland she is told by the villagers that her boy friend was killed by 'the Monster' a potty mouthed, hard drinking, remorseless creature who cannot die.Together they come to America. You ain't seen nothing quite like this.Whoever thought of this story (writer/director Hal Hartley) has some imagination and I will be looking for more of his work.Bravissimo !!!

John Zappulla The worst waste of time and film. A good double feature with Battlefield Earth. This film has no rhyme or reason and you will be very disappointed unless you are heavily sedated. You too will wonder what the heck Helen Mirren was thinking. I know she said in a recent interview she has to do what she needed to survive, but damn. Trust me, the plot has nothing to do with the movie and the movie has nothing to do with the plot. I sat through the entire what ever this is, and kept saying to myself, this is going to get good, it's going to make sense, there has to be something! But, I was greatly mistaken. Right through to the last scene you too will say, did they run out of budget and just shut the whole thing down?

FilmCriticLalitRao Most of independent cinema admirers know that American director Hal Hartley has made many outstanding films in his prolific career. However,it is a pity that he has completely goofed up his film "No such thing" as it is nothing short of a big bad joke.Many viewers might complain that this Hal Hartley film is something of an incomplete cinema as its characters have not been fully developed.Some viewers might also feel that by making a rather obscure film about a monster in a foreign land,Hal Hartley has attempted to distance himself from independent cinema movement.The only best thing which works wonders in "No Such Thing" concerns actress Sarah Polley's fortuitous transformation from a coffee maker to a beautiful journalist who achieves instant fame by bringing a weird monster to USA.Among other actors,Helen Mirren is wicked as ever as a boss who would like to get best news for her channel.For Hal Hartley,Icelandic setting also does not help much as the plot of his film is muddled as it has all the shades of a film which has been made in an agonizing hurry.This might be one of the plausible reasons why his film had a limited distribution despite the fact that it was chosen for "Un Certain Regard" section during Cannes International Film Festival 2001