A very powerful and compelling experience. Some very shocking images are so beautifully photographed that the contrasts are all the more striking. Far better than the overpraised 'The Pianist' and more mature and honest than 'Schindler's List.'

Thouse reviewer's who gives movie, any movie rating 100 should be fired. There is no perfect movie and there will never be as this is not a perfect movie.

The cinematography was amazing. This movie moved me beyond words. Seeing atrocities being carried out in a concentration camp through the eyes of a young boy in his teens made me weep. Its an intense tale of survival through unimaginable situations.

What separates this film from many other fine films about the Holocaust is treatment of the aftermath of war. Clearly what Gyuri experiences in the concentration camps are unfathomable to most and when the film shows this newfound distance it is unbearably poignant. Gyuri attempts to find meaning in his experience and his attempts to find meaning are what will make the film controversial as some will misinterpret these attempts as somehow a defense of the holocaust which it most clearly is not. This is a moving and important film which deserves to be seen by wide audience.… Expand

Yes this is a heavy subject (holocaust)..but very moving and very well acted none the less.

This was such an amazing movie both in its harsh and realistic depiction of the holocaust but also the beauty in the filming...one of the best movies I have seen in a long, long time

The cinematography is incredible. Just a really moving and haunting movie, one you truly won't forget. The ending was amazing; I won't give it away, but Nagy says something that totally changes your perception of what happened to him. Terrific acting by him. This movie should be a strong contender for best foreign film, if not best film.

The film is "Neo-Classic" in structure and style; by that I mean the characters are developed as "types," or "essences" or "summations" of characters, much like the morality play characters of earlier Medieval times and like the French and English neo-classic periods. That is done because of the particular style of the book - the film not only speaks for the Nazi destruction of the Jew (Holocuast) for in a symbolic way, the destruction of other peoples. There is almost an "impersonal," non-realism of an event that happens simply because their might be a malevolent, Schaupernhauerian force in the unverse that exacts a terrible fate, for no particular reason and then passes on - therefore you get a collapesed sense of time: it comes, it takes place (most of the screen time takes place in this middle period) and it passes. This is also a very secular pt. of view - shot from the boy's experience - he is young and therefore does not have enough knowledge to see the evil of what it happening as anything but simply evil, not necessarily made by a particular people at a particular time and for particular reaons - even though Hungarians and Germans and Gypsies are all taken to task; there is almost a kind of beauty and respite in the experience that the boy comes to enjoy - that one way or the other this will happen to everyone in life. I do not agree with the point of view; I believe people are responsible for their acts and must be called to judgment - but I can see the virtues of telling the story that way. I will never, ever forget the shots of those Jews standing in line, the one man swaying till someone else falls; that lone sequence destroyed me and I have hard time speaking about it, writring about it without tears welling up from deep inside. And the camera work is simply not doable by an American director or cinematographer. The major point for me, however, is the artistry, the complexity, the vision and the justice that is done on the part of the storyteller as compared to the sophomoric approach of Spielberg and Kushner.… Expand

For those put off somewhat by the sentimentality and over-arching sense of "watching" in Schindler's List, or who find The Pianist a good movie but studiously NOT about the camps, this movie is anodyne, in every meaningful sense. This movie is about the camps - not about avoiding them, about saving people from them - it is about being in the camps. I think that is what is keeping this film from getting awards. It doesn't prove anything, it doesn't pat anyone on the back. It just is. Bravo.… Expand

These movie make me to cry and to feel. it is the best movie i ever seen. really a beautiful work by Lajos Kotlai and THe actor Marcell Nagy.

Very beautiful cinematically as well as poetic and tasteful. Marcell Nagy was the perfect actor for the role and his portrayal will haunt me for a long time. I haven't seen a movie so well filmed in a very long time.

Nobody gets shot in the head, but a guard's slap in the face of our protagonist, curiously, had a stronger effect on me than anything in "Schindler's List". A dead person no longer feels humiliated and dehumanized. "Fateless" is a film for people who process the holocaust as nothing less than catastrophic. There's nothing in this film for Nazi sympathizers to hi-five each other. There's just corpses. "Fateless" provides no vicarious thrills for the sociopath. "The Grey Zone", great as it was, might've gone too far. "Fateless" merely suggests the violence.… Expand