WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Evey88 I can't figure out of this guy is crazy or a genius. The way he makes his films is so incredibly artistic. But it's also incredibly unnerving. I mean, it's hard to watch but you can't stop watching - almost as if the character's resolution and your resolution are tied together. This is quite something lol.

Mr_Eclectic Although I felt the acting, cinematography and score are good, the lack of plot continuity makes it very difficult to access emotionally. I suppose this would be seen as very artistic for the film professional or those who are tired for the sheeple food that Hollywood tends to produce, but in my mind this just goes too far.

kalawaysimo I decided to give this a watch after seeing a reviewer on YouTube recommending this. The idea is intriguing but the execution didn't really deliver. It's not a bad movie nor a good movie. It's hard to feel for the characters because they lack depth. They maybe suffering from what have happened to them, but it's hard to feel sorry because you don't really know anything about the characters aside from their mental dilemmas. The movie is stylish but it's also bland. The only good thing about this movie is the soundtrack. All in all, i think this is a pretentious movie. It kinda failed to showcase it's intelligence due to shallow characters and bland style of filmmaking.

#1 Movie Lover UPSTREAM COLOR contains moments of truly brilliant film-making. Nonetheless, I believe it lacks coherency.The film has been compared many times with Terrence Malick's masterpiece THE TREE OF LIFE. But to watch THE TREE OF LIFE is, admittedly, different in effect. After having seen the film, one does not have to understand it in a conventional sense; one does not have to know what Malick is trying to say – but, a good film critic would, at the very least, realize that Malick was trying to say something. It is doubtful whether a mature film viewer would ever attend a screening of THE TREE OF LIFE and exit the theater with the conviction that everything they had seen was pointless and pretentious.I consider it quite believable, however, that a major critic – e.g. Roger Ebert or J. Hoberman – would find UPSTREAM COLOR to be lightweight in depth, and argue that its ambitions were greater than its satisfactions. It features little character development, partly because its dialogue is sometimes unintelligible. Although Shane Carruth is a master of music-video juxtaposition, and the film's cinematography is striking, the impression that it all leaves, in the hours after viewing, is surprisingly slight – largely because one is not left with the feeling that its events could cohere into one meaningful whole.Though it may have been the most technically intelligent film of 2013, UPSTREAM COLOR ultimately plays like a mere succession of scenes rather than a full-fledged narrative work. There is probably a masterpiece within the conception of this film, but it was not achieved in the final product.I would still like UPSTREAM COLOR to be remembered as a high point for 2013 in movies, albeit on purely cinematic terms. For those who love THE TREE OF LIFE and view it as the finest film of the decade (an opinion with which I agree), note that this is comparable in its film-making style, but not necessarily its depth or emotional effect.