Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

jessicacgill This credible, nuanced film beautifully captures the dark undercurrents of growing up in the midwest. Not everyone will connect to this movie, but it is a nicely done, subtle expression of the profoundly bleak experience of living in the heartland. The acting is excellent, the film sustains a real tension throughout and the payoff at the end is gratifying without being some godawful special effects vomitorium. I grew up in Ohio and the endless seas of corn, the pervasive sense that something is "off" about your entire world, realizing no one else perceives it, at times wondering if they are simply hiding or stifling their own sense of unease... Living like this is frankly soul destroying - and that's what this movie is about. The only other film that I can think of that does this well is "It". When I watched The Fields I thought, "this is somebody trying to understand or purge something they experienced, this is not fiction," and I was quite right, the filmmaker has spent a lifetime trying to make sense of the events portrayed in this film. A beautiful piece of cinema that was like a cold knife to my own inner child, who still fears the corn.

emma2015 How anyone rated this a 10 is beyond my belief. There was no storyline. I tried very hard to fall in love with the characters but it never happened. Had no idea what was happening half the time and the corn field kept dying or being green? What? The boy seemed to just randomly appear places. Very bad. No suspense. Not scary. Disappointing beyond Belief. Made an account just to yell about this bad movie because i was so misled. The movie was about 40 minutes of simply trying to build up characters that i ceased to fall in love with. Its was very unfortunate because after seeing quite a few good ratings i had hoped for a better outcome. Made my family wait and watch to see an uneventful bad ending. A waste of my day.

jet66 A long and winding road leading nowhere, The Fields is a mish-mash of disconnected set pieces with no real plot. While the desaturated cinematography and moody design set a general tone of gloom, and much of the acting is solid, The Fields focuses on fragmented back story, rather than a beginning, a middle, and an end. There's no connection between Steven's parents' domestic disputes and Steven's meanderings around the farm. So why did the producers even follow that storyline? Of course, one could ask the same question about any aspect of this "mystery," and ultimately, about The Fields itself. 5 points for competence, but -2 for making me waste my time.

Kung_Fu_VooDoo A movie like no other....Something mundane happens to somebody platitudinous. It goes on for a bit, then it stops. You'll yawn. You'll blink. You'll wonder what Redbox did with your $1.28. The complete and total absence of action is over shadowed only by the loosely grouped events that struggle to make up a plot. The best thing that can be said for this movie is that the Director and Producers of "The English Patient" rejoiced and threw a party when it was learned their movie was no longer the single most boring piece of cinematic doldrums ever conceived. Perhaps the best review of this movie came from Leo Tolstoy, who upon viewing it said, "My God, does this EVER end?"