Three Thousand Years of Longing

United Artists Releasing | Release Date: August 26, 2022

6.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 99 Ratings

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Jenzeh1984Aug 27, 2022

Visually beautiful and entertaining. Great story telling and great chemistry with lead actors.

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Badgerryan27Sep 17, 2022

Pretty good. An Aladin for adults. Ultimately not really what I expected but fun non the less.

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royalguy07Aug 26, 2022

I really enjoyed the score, some fun visuals. The movie is never really boring but it is never interesting. A very weird letdown 3rd act.

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moviecritic68Aug 31, 2022

Really don't know where to begin. I dozed off a couple of times but the wife liked it. Thus I'll keep it in the mid range scoring. Honestly I dub it a "chick flick" guys.

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Compi24Sep 6, 2022

An intriguing concept is nearly unraveled by scattershot thematics and a finale that ultimately fails to deliver upon the promises set up in the first and second acts. "Three Thousand Years Of Longing" finds Idris Elba and Tilda SwintonAn intriguing concept is nearly unraveled by scattershot thematics and a finale that ultimately fails to deliver upon the promises set up in the first and second acts. "Three Thousand Years Of Longing" finds Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton giving things their all in a story that feels a lot more inconsequential than it should. The esoteric and abnormal structure is to be admired, as I quite liked the vignettes littered throughout. I just don't think any of it felt like it amounted to much in the end. There are also a few effects here and there that evoke laughter, when I don't think that was necessarily the intended result. You have to love a movie taking a crack at a fairly low-concept, but execution is key. In this case, I don't think this is the best version this could have been.… Expand

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RalfbergsNov 17, 2022

The visuals are great and at first part of the movie it starts out intriguing and interesting and the storytelling is also nice at first but then the plot slowly gets boring and dull and very predictable and you start to feel to yourself whyThe visuals are great and at first part of the movie it starts out intriguing and interesting and the storytelling is also nice at first but then the plot slowly gets boring and dull and very predictable and you start to feel to yourself why you even are watching this.… Expand

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theredskySep 27, 2022

George Miller’s newest film is odd to say the least. It has some cool ideas but it’s structure and pacing kill this movie. The movie presents itself with Elba’s character talking about different tales and stories to Tilda Swinton’s character.George Miller’s newest film is odd to say the least. It has some cool ideas but it’s structure and pacing kill this movie. The movie presents itself with Elba’s character talking about different tales and stories to Tilda Swinton’s character. The stories themselves are definitely very visually interesting and conceptually interesting but some are just kind of dull and some are very engaging. The final story that Idris Elba tells is easily the best. However the transitions from story to story is really bad. One transition has Elba and Swinton finish an argument before Elba abruptly starts his next tale. The story then just becomes a completely different and odd love story in the last 20 minutes that doesn’t fit very well with the movie and comes out of nowhere. It feels like George Miller had 2 different ideas for movies but shoved both of them together without finding a decent way to blend them together into one. The films technical aspects are all pretty great though. The cinematography, production design, and visual effects are all really great especially the cinematography. Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba both give good performances however Swinton’s character really isn’t developed enough for me to care about her. The film does a good job at developed Elba’s character out. There are a lot of great technical aspects to this movie but it’s poor execution really takes everything down. You can probably pass on this unless you’re interested in the premise.… Expand

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Mauro_LanariJun 18, 2023

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"The flaw of this film is that it does not express any desire to satisfy the audience." Feature lenght for festivals (6 minutes of applause at Cannes) rightly snubbed by spectators right from the test screenings. In the(Mauro Lanari)
"The flaw of this film is that it does not express any desire to satisfy the audience." Feature lenght for festivals (6 minutes of applause at Cannes) rightly snubbed by spectators right from the test screenings. In the "mythos-logos debate" Miller already knows which side to take, having reinvented himself as creator/narrator of fantastic worlds. Yet, even if inspiring by "One Thousand and One Nights", the single stories on the past of the Genius / Djinn are not exciting, interesting, engaging, the praise of narratology does not become visionariness and the tales seem to be more read than depicted between the two protagonists in bathrobes sitting in a hotel room. The film itself feels rushed and a bit disjointed, and the philosophical and psychological concepts of loneliness, wish and what we would like are relevant but superficially explored.… Expand

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WatchinMoviesSep 15, 2022

The movie provided some interest. Pleasant visuals. Nice imagination. Slow. A bit convoluted. Rated it "you may like it so give it a try."

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RohmoSep 20, 2022

Love the swing... visually distinct and often compelling... it's a shame it collapses in the third act with an usastisfying turn...

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alanpotter17Apr 10, 2023

A carreira de George Miller é marcada por filmes bem ecléticos, temos de Mad Max à Happy feet, o que pode ser até algo positivo caso ele saiba dosar o que há de melhor em cada gênero. No caso de "Three thousand", Miller precisaria ter umA carreira de George Miller é marcada por filmes bem ecléticos, temos de Mad Max à Happy feet, o que pode ser até algo positivo caso ele saiba dosar o que há de melhor em cada gênero. No caso de "Three thousand", Miller precisaria ter um pouco mais de senso do material e saber melhor que produto entregar.
A história se centra na professora universitária Alithea, que basicamente é uma caricatura do que representa a razão e a emoção. O roteiro então passa a acompanhá-la em suas atividades normais da universidade, para se dar conta que se trata de uma mulher solitária e desiludida, como que à procura do encanto da vida. e quando ela se depara com uma garrafa em que solta um gênio, capaz de lhe conceber 3 desejos, suas expectativas de vida mudam instantaneamente, ela, incrédula, se vê numa situação totalmente atípica.
E aqui o roteiro se perde de vez. Com uma situação dessa em mãos, o que vemos florescer é uma verborragia da origem do tal gênio, ele vai narrando toda sua história, a forma como passou por outros possuidores da garrafa, os desejos humans a que se submeteu. É um porre tremendo.
A voz rouca de Idris Elba até que combinou perfeitamente com sua caracterização, muito boa por sinal, o CGI está muito bem feito, mas são intermináveis minutos ouvindo ele contando seus fatos, e depois que termina, ainda somos obrigado a ouvir mais histórias por parte de Alitheia.
Olha, é como se todo o encanto daquela história s perdesse num mar infinito de aborrecimentos e deseinteresse, não é possível que consideraram essa ladainha do passado de ambos e esse falatório interminável como algo que rendesse o filme.
Ao final, o desejo é feito, após muita falação e pronto, fim de filme. Parece piada, mas não é. Então, prepara-se para encarar mais de 1h de pura masturbação dialogada, e você vai ver que o filme é basicamente isso, um ciclo sobre si mesmo, Conseguiram a proeza de tornar um gênio desinteressante e falastrão, algo que um Aladdim da vida nunca fizera. Uma pena, pois tinha um grande potencial para ser mais.… Expand

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CarlElmoreNov 25, 2022

This feels like two different movies that George Miller was forced to splice together.

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