Head in the Clouds (2004)

Good concept, poorly executed.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I love this movie mostly because of two scenes. This might be a spoiler, so here is my fair warning. One scene is where Guy thirstily lifts Gilda's skirt to give her oral sex. Gosh that was one of the best sex scenes I ever seen in a movie. Totally turned me on. The other scene was where Gilda taught that sado-masochistic man, who hurt her friend, a harsh lesson, by administering him a taste of his own medicine. That scene kind of turned me on also. I didn't really like the ending because I feel like whoever wrote this movie punished Gilda for living life to the fullest and making herself happy. That's not right. I loved Gilda's modern lifestyle, and I think she should've gotten a happy ending for having the courage to live for herself.

Hands up! I slept through the last 30 minutes of this pile of excrement. It might have the best ending in the history of cinema but I was not prepared to sacrifice another 30 minutes of my life to find out because the previous 300 hours (well that's what it seemed like)were excruciatingly boring. Badly acted, badly scripted rubbish. I accuse those of you who gave this film a good review of wasting more than two precious hours of my life.HOW DARE YOU.LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR YOU AND YOUR PATHETIC OPINIONS.Tenth line of text added.

I'll keep this simple -- this movie could have been great, but it wanted to be too much. It wanted to be epic, it wanted to be about friends and it wanted to be an anti-war movie and on top of that, it wanted to be about WWII and the underground work. I wanted to like this movie and while it's not impossible to watch, it is slow and plodding some times. This is a movie that really could have hit the audience hard, but it just kind of laid there instead.We go through a long, long development of the relationship between the two main characters Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend. This could have been story enough, but no, we have to follow them over a 10 or 15 year period and go all the way through WWII. Early on, we are introduced to Penelope Cruz who is a good friend to Theron's character. And from this we kind of slip into a pseudo-three-way that never fully develops. Then there is the Spanish Civil War that Cruz's character feels she must partake in as well as Townsend. Again, this could have been an interesting story all on its own. Finally, we get into WWII and it drags on and on and I started to lose interest in the characters and the story. It's all just too much of a BIG story and, at the same time, not enough of a story to really hold our interest. The actors were okay, though sometimes I felt like Theron was just reading her lines. Townsend, for the most part fits the role, but other times he comes across as too modern for the time period. There are a few twists and turns here that keep the viewer interested, but overall, its not as good as it could have been. A shorter version, about one of the many story lines could make this a really, really good film.

This movie is a good illustration of a passionate romance based only on intimacy. No matter whom the lovers are deep inside, their pleasure is in the flesh, whatever it is with women or men. So, when the mind and feelings come, they lose their bond and they can leave each other.With the years passing, this truth gets less powerful but in the tragic era of World War Two, every second can be decisive.I found the cast wonderful: I just like Penelope Cruz's accent and it's an evidence that Charlize Theron is a damned good actress! The scope of this love story is appealing between stern England, cool Paris and wounded Spain! As full of it, a very good surprise! (the only flaw: the Parisian neighborhood looks really like a movie set, and I don't say this just because I live in Paris!)