PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

jadflack-22130 I am not the biggest Dario Argento film fan, my favourites of his are Tenabrae, Suspiria, and Opera. " Mother Of Tears" is the third chapter in his " Three Mother" films the other two being " Suspiria" and " Inferno" which i didn't like much. Mother Of Tears" has a bad reputation and quite simply it deserves it.An incoherent, amateur and often pathetic mess of a film with awful, embarrassing acting from everyone. A couple of moments work, the gore though just looks fake, film's effect is just a wide sheet of flatness, and that ending??? Easily the least of the series, and people moan how bad his later " Dracula " was, it is a masterpiece compared to this.A really too generous fair rating.

morrison-dylan-fan Oct 2014:Watching the movie late at night for the 2014 October Horror Challenge on the IMDb Horror board (RIP) I found it to hardly leave me with any lasting memories, partly due to being tied,but also due to the flick being so disconnected from the other two in the series.Feb 9th 2017:Whilst trying to decide which of the last 4 titles (one alt cut,and two in need of re-watching) from auteur film maker Dario Argento,I read a review from a fellow IMDber on Argento's Dracula,who said it was not as "entertaining or gratuitous as his bonkers Mother of Tears." After reading this,I decided to pay another visit to the final mother with a new mindset.The plot:Sent an urn recently dug up that is believed to contain artefacts belonging to the mythical "Third Mother/Mother of Tears" Mater Lachrymarum, art restoration student Sarah Mandy opens the urn with a curator . Accidentally cutting herself during the opening, (woops!) Mandy's blood leads to Lachrymarum's henchmen coming to life and killing the curator. Running away,Mandy soon discovers from ghosts of the past that she is the only one who can stop the mother crying.View on the film:Whilst stripping the film of the distinctive appearance of Suspiria and Inferno,co-writer (along with Jace Anderson / Walter Fasano/ Adam Gierasch and Simona Simonetti) director Dario Argento & cinematographer Frederic Fasano unearth a dusty, golden appearance that keeps the horrors linked to the nightmare unearthed. Tearing the limbs out of anything even slightly subtle,Argento attacks the low budget for a piece of gloriously weird,pure Horror kitsch. Making the end of the world look like a Friday night out,Argento jumps over the limited extras with practical bonkers delights,from gallons of over the top gore and bad CGI ghosts,to a random cheeky monkey and the witches looking like a Goth band.Criss-crossed from various screenplays written over 30 years,the writers struggle to keep any of the original elements of the first two films intact,with bone-dry scenes involving "research" featuring characters showing illustrations in books for scenes the budget can't cover. Rolling down an Adventure Horror path,the writers push the mammoth flaws aside for hilariously odd shocks,that leaps from Mandy fighting hobos on the eve of the apocalypse,to Mandy being unable to spank a demonic monkey. Reuniting with her dad, (who lingers a bit too long at her naked body) sexy Asia Argento gives a fittingly peculiar performance as Mandy,who largely appears oddly relaxed at the end of the world,as her dad closes the urn on The Three Mothers.

Leviathan Mother of Tears has to be in my top 10 most unintentionally funny movies of all time. There is not a single moment of this movie that isn't injected with cheese, and then when you're not laughing at how cheesy it is, the movie is typical and boring. The directing could have been done by any intern film student, and your average high school creative writing class student could have written the unimaginative story in a coma. The majority of the movie plays out a lot like a boring thriller that can't thrill, with lots of phone calls and lots of shots of Asia running down the street. If I had to guess, I'd say probably twenty full minutes of the runtime is nothing but the camera watching Asia's back as she runs from something. Though Asia herself did okay in the lead role—and me saying that is VERY generous—every single other actor seemed just to want us to laugh at them. The witches reminded me more of horny, brain-dead teenage girls who just want to get home and get high. That's supposed to be scary? Ha! Sorry, I call that cheese.I was never a fan of Suspiria. It was boring, uncreative, the kills were downright stupid, and it still had those unintentionally laughable scenes that I assume Argento seems to think his audience can take seriously. With that said, Argento at least understood how to direct with Suspiria. Mother of Tears, as I said, is even less imaginative and even more boring. It's essentially Harry Potter, minus the entertainment value and the creativity. I'd even go as far as to say Harry Potter can even carry a more mature/serious tone than Mother of Tears, which is just pathetic.If Argento took the gore out of this movie, it would essentially be a children's movie. With that said, the gore isn't even anything special. Sure, it's a tad over-the-top, but it's nothing that going to shock you because it's just generic. Limbs cut off, guts torn out, throats slit—eh. Seen it all a hundred times. If that's Argento at his most shocking, once again, Argento is pathetic. The gore really isn't that extreme in the first place, and the gore scenes are few and far between. At least Argento isn't a pansy and cuts the camera away during gore scenes like so many other directors—though the gore isn't anything special or disturbing, I give him that much. He has enough balls not to cut the camera away, unlike pansy Eli Roth.In the end, if you're into cheese-horror that isn't scary, you've come to the right place. However, if you're like me and actually wish more of the horror genre was intelligent and actually had true gore/scares, I don't know how you can sit through this.

ian_powell There is much to like here and I found myself more impressed with the film on 2nd viewing. I particularly liked the monkeys. But what kills the film for me is the lack of gravitas around the Mother figure here. she is too soft porn and thus difficult to take seriously. Her henchmen are fine, but she lacks genuine magic, and i. a film that takes magic as its subject, this pulls it down. In an Argento movie, we Can swallow the odd bit of scenery chewing (Udo) and even lack luster CGI and a lessening of the visual poetry of suspiria.... but only if that underlying sense of magic works. It half does work until the Mater turns up looking like a playboy centefold in a cape