Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Nonureva Really Surprised!

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

renis goreng Blech. I wanted to like this, and I love a good romance, and atmospheric stuff and whatnot. But omg, so clichéd. The mermaid is a hot sexy mermaid (but in a "subtle," art house movie way) who wears lingerie (which is frequently on view), loves cleaning house, doesn't talk very much, has a mysterious eastern block accent, a great body and great legs, swims in see-through dresses, wears boots, a short wet dress and a raincoat everywhere, is kind to children, slings her long tangled hair all over everything...blech. I really wanted to like this, but the mermaid was such a stereotyped male fantasy it was really hard to enjoy. If you want to watch something similar but better try Til Human Voices Wake Us. Splash was a better mermaid movie that was actually less sexist.

bejasus Ondine had so much going for it: Neil Jordan, Colin Farrell, Stephen Rea, the southwest coast of Ireland, the selkie myth, the complexity of modern Ireland. But the film was surprisingly poor. It starts off very promising, and that promise is a film that offers an interesting mix of fairy tale and realism. But the mix gets muddled about halfway through, and the last twenty minutes are ridiculously poor. The scenery is beautiful. Colin Farrell at his most handsome. The soundtrack is lovely. But the acting, across the board, is mediocre -- primarily, I think, because the screenplay just doesn't hold up. But I also think the little girl is weak, and woman who plays Ondine is just vacuous, not mysterious. I forced myself to watch it a second time, just in case I just came to it with false expectations, and found it to be worse the second time around. Once you know the ending, you can see that the earlier scenes don't add up: they were "tricks" that the film plays on you.

stardens The colors of the water, sky, and coastline are infusing. The storyline very nicely captures the greater meaning people seek in the initial stage of love affair and then very abruptly cuts into the reality of it. It pertained to the necessity of acceptance for continuity and/or to the finale for the lack of it. Personally, I didn't see the girl as "the skinny wanna-be lingerie model" as some have criticized previously, but quiet contrary- she played her part of NETHER-BEING well! The lovers were portrayed as they almost always traditionally are- in a need to save one another, to help one another and they were matched in terms of their particular needs. Both key characters' compassion for life, despite their vices or imperfections, shows in their genuine affection towards the little girl, as well as in their regard for and reliance on little girl's psychological strength.

perkypops Fairy tales are supposed to be divorced from reality but Neil Jordan comes up with a delicious piece of storytelling and cinema which has elements of fantasy and reality.Superbly acted and directed 'Ondine' revels in the simplicity of being human where a good story can, in the right hands, be the most satisfying of entertainment. The whole cast does well, in particular the three main leads, Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, and Alison Barry.The story centres upon an alcoholic fisherman, his catch, and he and his young daughter's observations about his catch, and it is told with startling cinematography, haunting music, building ideas in our minds just as any good story should. As Annie, the fisherman's daughter would have it, her father's story "is s***e", but, nonetheless, we are still captivated and so, apparently, is Annie! Neil Jordan even manages meaningful diversions intended to either knock our fantasy about or confuse our reality and leave us wondering what is next. Yes it is flawed in places but what storytelling isn't? What this film has in bucket loads is personality.See this film please, it is just too good to miss.