Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Tyreece Hulme
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Mr-Fusion
"Seraphim Falls" makes the most of its spare 20-minute opening, little more than an excuse to see Pierce Brosnan desperately fleeing Liam Neeson's nearing posse (honestly, the guy gets punished in all manner of ways, gunshot, wilderness, what-have-you). There's minimal dialogue, save for a few lines of Neeson's growl, which is cause enough to start running. The source of their shared acrimony is clearly established later on, but for a good half of the movie, it's an unfettered chase.And ultimately, it works, at least until the story starts winding down in the third act. By that point, the hatred's been clarified, some of the sadistic fun has gone and - one way or another - the conflict gets solved.It doesn't play like a conventional Western, and you could argue it's really an action movie. But not a bad one in either case.7/10
Adam Peters
(48%) A tough cat and mouse western adventure with a stripped down plot and a strong cast. The opening twenty or so minutes are the strongest part, with Brosnan battling the freezing elements of a mountain pass while Neeson tracks him like a wild animal. The quite savage violence adds bite, but really this doesn't have very much up its sleeve. And once the ideas start to run dry and Anjelica Huston turns up (or does she?) to simply add a few extra minutes to the run time making this more frustrating overall than anything else. There is a good short story tucked away in this, but as it is there just isn't enough meat on the bones here to make this something significantly better than average.
d-harleydavis
I consider myself a bit of cinephile...yet this hidden gem escaped my attention for 7 years. I stumbled upon it tonight on a random search for things I hadn't seen. I was not disappointed.This is a tight, short, compact beauty of a movie. An acting tour de force (ironically between two irish actors in a western). This movie took in less box office in it's run than 'Taken 2' took in in it's first hour, but what a movie! The whole thing is very atmospheric, moody...you really feel for the two lead characters. Uniquely we never get vested in who is the hero and who is the villain. They both have redeeming qualities, and they both have their dark side. I never felt I was on either side of the equation, I just watched the story unfold without the obligatory Hollywood right vs. wrong, good vs. evil. It was a simple story between two good men and their past misgivings catching up to them. It's not the greatest movie I have ever seen, I didn't learn anything new, but it was a breath of fresh air in the era of cookie cutter movies. The ending was about as anti-Hollywood as I've ever seen.Watch this, you will not be disappointed.
Uriah43
Although this film may be classified as a "Western" it is actually a film about revenge and how it changes a person. It just happens to be in a "Western" setting. On the final days of the Civil War, Gideon (played by Pierce Brosnan) is tracking Confederate Colonel Carver (Liam Neeson) to discover what has happened to Carver's Confederate company and its cannon. Gideon eventually catches up to him but in the process inadvertently ends up killing Carver's wife and two children. Gideon is filled with regret and Colonel Carver is filled with rage. The story then continues to evolve with the last third of the movie becoming really strange and unpredictable. While both Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson performed their parts in their usual top-notch manner, it didn't seem to be the best role for either of them to display their talents. I thought the plot was somewhat disjointed and as the film progressed it became sort of weird and boring. In short, it would have been much better if the director (David Von Ancken) had concentrated on making a good movie instead of simply making a philosophical point.