Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

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

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Dorothy_Langman The Eclipse. A very fine performance from Ciaran in this film. This is smart, scary and thought-provoking... Don't watch it on your own..you will 'jump' when you least expect it.Having viewed The Eclipse, I felt myself wanting to watch it again...There is so much' going on, which 'jolts' the viewer that you hardly have time to articulate what has occurred. Ciaran Hinds effectively gets 'inside' his character, Michael Farr, demonstrating his anguish, loss and vulnerability. The 'fight' scene with Aidan Quinn is brutal in its' exposition with Ciaran 'holding back' and then 'letting go' and is perhaps a metaphor for much of what is happening in the story. We see Farr 'on a journey', culminating in a possible new connection/relationship? Yet, had resolution occurred? The viewer has to seperate reality from imagination. Has Farr's grief pushed him to the edge? Is what he is 'seeing' real or locked in his psyche? This is a thought provoking film which makes you consider the possibilities. On a lighter note,one thing we can be certain of is that, yes, Aidan Quinn does have vivid blue eyes...but does Ciaran Hinds know he has the most beautiful hazel-green eyes, a girl could lose herself in?Melies D'Argent Award for Best European Film Best Film & Best Screenplay Awards 2010 Irish Film & Television Academy Award Best Actor Award for Ciaran Hinds 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Best Supporting Actor Award for Aidan Quinn 2010 Irish Film & Television Academy AwardsHighly Recommended

sergepesic "The Eclipse", is a quiet, gentle masterpiece, an original blend of seemingly incompatible genre. Bit of a horror, tad of a romance and a dash of comedy, but it all stays together and enhances the remarkable flavor. Lonely widower hosts a literary conference, while drowning in the overwhelming current of grief. Hence, he meets two writers and that is pretty much the plot. Simple and unforgettable, directed with an assured hand by the writer Conor McPherson and played beautifully by all three protagonists. Ciaran Hinds stands out among three with strong, but subtle presence. His deep sadness just breaks your heart. Lovely surprise.

BigBobFoonman I like ghost stories, the older and closer to the abyss I get, and there is one scene in this film that won the day for me. Hinds' character awakes one morning, to find his dead wife sitting on the bed, her hair gone to chemo, looking at him with darkened eyes. He does a double take, and she is still there, her lustrous, long, brown hair shining, and she looking well, a shadow of sad on her face. He is stunned, and cannot move as she gets up, sits down beside him on the bed and hugs him warmly for at least a minute...he weeps openly, and she gets up and drifts away. I cannot embellish that marvelous scene any more....The detractions were the scenes of slasher gore as Hind's character saw visions of his wife's sick father, dead and rotting and grabbing for him....don't quite understand why those were in there, but this was a good film

FourInTheFamily What a disappointment. It had such great potential, a widower who is seeing something in his house (a ghost?) and doesn't know whom to turn to, 2 children living with the father, a father-in-law who resents being put in a home, a writer of ghost stories who visits this town, and a narcissistic writer who wants to have an affair with the first writer. The intersection of all these characters had such promise -- wasted! The question of love and relationships gets several different views but they're all a little blurry.We waited for all these character's interactions to be resolved, but for naught. We had to watch the special features with the actors talking about their characters to get enough background information to finish putting some of the story pieces together that didn't make it into the film.One thing I especially liked during the film was that the surprise/intense scenes were not proceeded or accompanied by the scary-music-track that usually alerts the watchers to "here's the scary part." This is what was so lacking in the film -- almost all the pieces were there for a memorable, thoughtful, suspense-filled story. It is truly too bad that the story telling and editing didn't fulfill on the promise and premise of the movie.