"American Beauty" is a masterful film. Kevin Spacey is at it's best and the film is filled with allegories and symbolism. A must watch.

Magnificent! Marvelous! Brilliant! Hard to say anything bad about this movie!

I love how the film captures the strangest of all locations: Surburbia. Many of us who live in surburbia can relate to this awkward black comedy which makes you realise we are all a bit crazy really. Possibly the strangest element of the film is the lust Kevin Spacey has for his daughters friend. Although incredibly disturbing its also seems to make you love the main character even more and that can't have been achieved without some hard work and dedication.… Expand

This is the best film ever made.It's really incredible.

There isn't other film that can complete with ''american beauty''. Ã

American Beauty is a triumph of acting, writing, and directing. Writer Alan Ball and director Sam Mendes truly strike gold with this jaw-dropping, entrancing film. It's truly one of the best films I've ever seen.

I have never seen a movie that cogently blends together elements of a pragmatic social satire and a poignant domestic tragedy. Though, this is by far one of the most messed up films I have ever seen. . .it is also one of the best. When you have an incredible cast, an intelligent director, a brilliant screenplay, and amazing camerawork and music, all of these parts seem to fall into place and work cohesively to create a masterpiece..… Expand

Excellent movie, one of my personal favorites. The spectacular acting and great plot combine to make this an incredible movie.

An amazing story with awesome, very creative, plot twists and the such.

This film definitely is one of my all time favourites with such beautiful moments combined with great satire and sadness. Spacey and Bening are flawless.

One of the best movies I've ever seen. Maybe it isn't everything the critics want in a movie, but it was everything I wanted.

The best movie ever made.

A beautifully made and wonderfully acted dark comedy masterpiece. Spacey might not be the best actor in the world but in this film his performance was excellent. What looks like a satire on middle-aged american men proves to be much more.

Underrated. This movie is simply perfect. Good camera, atmosphere, great characters -- Spacey rules. Story is also perfect but many people don't understand that the story is happening INSIDE the main character -- everything else is just a background, a sub-story, also perfectly designed and implemented.

This movie was completely hilarious and at the same time very serious. It actually made me think, and very few movies every make you think and consider your life. By far it was one of the best movies I've ever watched and anyone coming from a little city knows how many movies a little city teen watches.

Still an all-time classic--as good and pertinent today as it was when it first came out.

I must say that the reviews i have read saying that this film is child pornography is total rubbish. If viewers are afraid to watch something with a depth go back to the little mermaid. This film is a very important social commentary that implies the fabric of the family institution is diminishing.

This is an extremely well thought out movie. Then way that they used the camera angles and lenses to single out people or make things almost go un noticed. It also had a strong plot that allowed the director to use these editing and filming tequniques to their fullest. Its a brilliant piece of film making that gets better every time you watch it.

Thanks God for the finest red wine, for the beautifull ladies and for let me see this movie. American Beauty. A clasic. One of the best films ever made. Bening terrific. If i wasn t seen The usual suspects, this film probably be the reason of kevin Spacey bank account. Amazing, Spacey is amaizing.

Bland says the Village Voice? Bland? Uh, yeah, right. If ya don't like it, fine, but that is one of the most inappropriate criticisms one could use for American Beauty. Strong, strong film and characters. Very strong.

A beautiful piece of work by first time director Sam Mendes. Easily one of the most accomplished film debuts in the history of cinema. The story centers around a man named Lester Burnham (the wonderful Oscar winning Kevin Spacey) a man who has lost passion in his life. His wife Caroline (Annette Benning in an equally stunning performance) is a workaholic real estate agent. Both are frustrated with their marriage which is basically just for show. Sexually frustrated Lest lusts for one of his daughter's (Thora Birch) girlfriends,Anglea (Menna Suvari). This lust begins Lester's search for happiness in life, so he quits his job and begins to flip burgers just like when he was a kid. Caroline is very frustrated with the fact that she has to be the breadwinner of the family and has an affair. Meanwhile the boy next door, Ricky is videotaping the Burnhams the daughter Jane in particular. The two strike a chord with each other and begin a romantic relationship. Ricky's father, Frank is a homophobe who suspect Ricky is homosexual because he is spending some time with Lester, of course this is not true. All Ricky is doing is scoring Lester some drugs. As the story progresses Lester gets used to Angela, and Angela starts to warm up to Lester. There are some wonderfully, gut busting scenes involving razor sharp deliveries by both Benning and Spacey. Both give brilliant performances. Many film play the : SUBURBIA AINT SO PERFECT! card, this one gets it right. Overall: A+… Expand

American Beauty is my favourite film of all time, followed by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Mulhholand Drive. It is a near perfect movie. It's use of "cliche" is very deliberate. Each scene is flawlessly connected with the underlying theme, symbolized in red. If you don't understand what I am talking about, you need to rewatch the movie. Then Alan Ball gives us Six Feet Under - Genius.… Expand

This movie is superb. It is an absolute masterpiece which is beautifully acted.

This is the best film about american suburbia (of course viewed with a jaundiced eye) that i've watched. its a good thing a brit directed this coz i think he brought perspective to the story. spacey gives the performance of his career so far, bening was excellent and so were the younger actors birch, bentley and suvari. really makes u think about american family life.

A great movie to watch time and time again! The acting is superb and the themes are well thought out and provoking. A definite buy for anyone's DVD collection! The bonus features are also interesting to scope out.

Spacey has it, and shares it with us all throughout the entire film. The rest of the cast was perfect as well. I'd give this movie a twenty if I could, and dare filmmakers to try to better it in the next five years. If they can. In a word: "Spectacular"

A beautifully shot and darkly comic masterpiece. Kevin Spacey is excellent as the man desperately trying to do something with his life. I particularly enjoyed the work of Chris Cooper in the role of the neighbor, as well as Annette Bening as Lester's wife. A very well done tragicomedy.

This movie has a number of problems. Not everyone will be able to resolve them. I was, and realized the movie had anticipated them beforehand. The premise became clear: The more freedom we establish for ourselves, the more vulnerable we are to the misunderstandings of our families and neighbors. We struggle. Most misunderstandings we resolve, but inevitably one of them does us in. That�39;s the problem, but also the beauty of the American lifestyle. Every once in a while Hollywood needs to turn out a show like this to justify its existence.… Expand

This is a very good comedy, that reflects the actual family of the U.S. Also, the parlament of this movie is very strong, making to the public think about what the hell is going on with our society........that in fact, the core of the society is the family.