Free Zone (2005)

Purely Joyful Movie!

Powerful

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

If you're looking for an action packed adventure don't get this movie. This movie is GREAT because of the themes it touches on, the ideas it makes you think about, and is mentally and intellectually stimulating. If you like using your mind, and if you are an intellectual, deep thinker then rent this movie. A++++++ Movie This movie takes so getting used to because of the way it is filmed, but if you look beyond that to the message it is really very suiting the way it was filmed. Natalie Portman is an excellent actress and she doesn't let me know at all in the this movie. The first few minutes might be a bit trying on one's patience, but I promise if you can get thru that and watch the rest you will walk awake with a true experience.

I enjoyed this movie, and Im not just saying that because Im Jewish. But things that really really ticked me off was his editing technique, especially the overlapping just made me nauseous. I need to watch this movie again because I didn't understand a lot of the things. I didn't like the ending, it kind of just put me off. Overall it was a fine movie. But can someone please explain why she ran away in the last scene, like out of no where too. The credits were messed too, with the 2 women yelling at each other, it was just pointless. If this movie had better explanation of what in the world is going on, I would had enjoyed it more. I have to compliment the acting though, it was well done. Also, some of the scenes were just way to extended. This movie is worth watching. Great morality and has deep meaning, but it still could have been done a lot better, especially when your showing tragedy in the middle east.

This movie was terribly long & dull for me.2 things have really bothered me: · the directing of Gitai: either he shoots big & long close-ups, either he does long wide empty frames (the road, a flag….). For me, it was not a "Free Zone" because I saw only what he wanted me to see. I couldn't make any feelings of Jordania because we don't see it.. The worst: when he mixes two shoots on the same frame (a talk between Natalie and her boyfriend & the eternal windows car…) With that, you see none of them… · the story of Gitai: again, he doesn't write a story that anyone can relate but imposes its own feeling. When you see that the film begins with 8 minutes of Natalie crying in a passenger seat & that the female driver has no words for her, you know that the characterization is stupid…. Any human feeling, either Jewish, Arab, American, french or whatever you like, would have been simple: "Why do you cry? Be strong. You are not alone.. I am with you.. Can I help….". Personally, I couldn't get into those crazy characters and the following road trip wouldn't deny it..In conclusion, when a director tells me "it is my vision or nothing", well, I am free & I choose "nothing".

This is more of a response to the latest post by "Mrnaturalsez". I guess we are expected to take your word on a movie instead of the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, which incidentally gave this move high praise. The film was an interesting, raw look at Jerusalem and Jordan as one would see it as a traveller. Plot has nothing to do with appreciating this movie, so I think you missed the mark. The story was used as a reason to explore the middle eastern culture. It was also interesting seeing Natalie Portman speak in her native Hebrew language. The film drew upon Portman's real life, as she was born in Isreal and had a Jewish father and American mother. Some films are watched for action, others for art, but I guess one will believe what one wants. There's my 2 cents.