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Rialto Pictures |
Release Date:
April 28, 2006
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USER RATING DISTRIBUTION
Positive:
86
Mixed:
17
Negative:
7
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User Reviews
Sep 15, 2009
A truly great film. Your users that have given ARMY OF SHADOWS poor reviews seem not just ignorant of cinema, but, especially, ignorant of history. (They actually seem to be just plain ignorant, and very full of themselves.)
3 of 3 users found this helpful
May 27, 2006
Riveting blockbuster that drew me in so persuasivly that afterward I felt I was still on the run from German soldiers in Paris in 1944.
1 of 1 users found this helpful
Jul 30, 2007
I was surprised to find that this film was made in 1969. It has aged v well. Coldly realistic, scary, moving, thought-provoking. A truly brilliant film. I didn't know the director before yesterday. I will look up his other films.
1 of 1 users found this helpful
May 28, 2006
1 of 1 users found this helpful
May 29, 2006
Better late than never. Melville's great 1969 film enjoys its first U.S. release this year. As such, it's the best film of 2006.
1 of 1 users found this helpful
Dec 26, 2006
Certainly the best movie I've seen in 2006; one of the best in the past 5 years. From the opening shot to the haunting ending, I couldn't get the movie out of my mind for weeks.
1 of 1 users found this helpful
Jul 26, 2006
Stunning, moving film by a true master. Those who complain about the slow pace have seen too many Hollywood crap or MTV garbage.
1 of 1 users found this helpful
Dec 5, 2007
This film punched me in the chest and woke me up from my "modern cinema" induced coma. A masterpiece that captures humanity at it's best and worst.
1 of 1 users found this helpful
Jun 12, 2007
1 of 1 users found this helpful
Apr 22, 2008
Simply the best film I have ever seen.
1 of 1 users found this helpful
Aug 20, 2010
The 99 metascore is a bit high, but the 8.1 user score is a bit low. This whole movie is very good, but there is one scene in particular (the attempt to break out a beaten associate) that really lives a strong feeling in the pit of your stomach.
1 of 1 users found this helpful10
Sep 24, 2007
2 of 3 users found this helpful
Aug 27, 2010
This film is one of the darkest, uncompromising and unsettling movie products of the 1960s - a war movie with no bars and a moral prerogative as gray as the walls of the many prison cells we find the characters in.
2 of 3 users found this helpful21
Jun 3, 2006
I don't understand why did the critics give this film such a high rating? To me it's just an average movie. It's slow & too long & at times it's difficult to follow.
1 of 2 users found this helpful
Jan 1, 2007
1 of 2 users found this helpful
Jun 26, 2007
1 of 2 users found this helpful
May 8, 2009
1 of 2 users found this helpful
May 17, 2006
Powerful, moving, hypnotic, and eerily modern.
1 of 2 users found this helpful
May 25, 2006
1 of 2 users found this helpful
Jun 15, 2006
Melville at his very best! Stunning!
1 of 2 users found this helpful
Jun 30, 2006
1 of 2 users found this helpful
Jul 1, 2006
Difficult to imagine that one can strip a series of perilous encounters down to their existential terror any better than Melville.
1 of 2 users found this helpful
Nov 29, 2007
1 of 2 users found this helpful
Jun 25, 2010
1 of 3 users found this helpful
Feb 15, 2008
I almost fell asleep watching this film. It has caused me to distrust the Metacritic ratings.
1 of 7 users found this helpful
Jul 9, 2007
0 of 1 users found this helpful
Jun 13, 2006
Simply a masterpiece!
0 of 1 users found this helpful
Jul 9, 2006
Dak, literally, and surprisingly detached. Not the "must see" its rating would indicate.
0 of 1 users found this helpful
Mar 28, 2007
0 of 1 users found this helpful
Jun 19, 2006
0 of 1 users found this helpful
Dec 2, 2008
Would have been bearable if not for the extremely slow pace. I'd rather be "entertained" by Hollywood trash than to sit through something like this.
0 of 1 users found this helpful
Jun 25, 2009
0 of 1 users found this helpful
Jul 27, 2009
Beautiful, but frankly a bit of a snooze. I didn't find it an exercise in tension as many claim, but more an exercise in endurance.
0 of 1 users found this helpful
Apr 1, 2018
one of the greates masterpreces ever turned on cinema ever rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
0 of 2 users found this helpful02
Jan 3, 2007
0 of 0 users found this helpful
Aug 25, 2008
This is a very good film, and quite well filmed, but its a little slow and perhaps too long. The 99 avg from critics is way too high, but its still very good for its time and marks Melville as a major director; I want to see more of his.
0 of 0 users found this helpful
Oct 26, 2006
Stark, compelling, austere, engrossing, beautifully acted and directed. And, for me, about twenty minutes too long. If the running time had been more like two hours instead of 2:20, I would have given it a 10.
0 of 0 users found this helpful
Mar 17, 2016
Army of Shadows is finally lovable and something almost godlike. If critics love this one, I bet users are going to have a great time watching this more than the critics.
0 of 0 users found this helpful00
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