Upside Down

Love resists the law... this time of gravity. The visual side is captivating, the story about the rich and the poor in an original setting. Laws don’t work the way we are used to, so who ever wants to spend almost two hours squabbling about whether or not the blood would rush to the hero’s head or that the fire is burning somewhat slowly and would go out during the first time climb into the upper world, can. Solanas sacrificed these details to allow him to tell a story which, apart from the slightly hurried finale, has no flaws. Both Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess are well cast and know what is expected from them. Overall, it’s simply a well-made fairytale that takes place in an eye-pleasing world. (23/12/2012)

It hasn’t happened to me in a long time that I would be enjoying a movie that is visually absolutely stunning, but the plot of which is incredibly silly. But it actually wouldn’t have been so silly if the director hadn’t introduced to me in the first five minutes how things worked in this world. After that, similarly to several other users here, I kept thinking about what was good and bad about the world. And at that point, I kept noticing silly details that I would normally never have noticed. In the end, I was flabbergasted and the ending didn’t help things either. But the movie does deserve your attention thanks to its amazing visual side. (04/01/2014)

Kirsten Dunst has never made many sci-fi films. Years ago she only dubbed the English version of the cartoon Kaena: The Prophecy, and as a kid, she was in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But today, we have quite an enjoyable sci-fi melodrama called Upside Down, which seems to exist only to have all the eye candy scenes with the beloved Kirsten Dunst. The existence of both worlds is actually a metaphor for the main romance about a couple interacting with each other, just as Aristophanes tells us in Plato's "Symposium." (20/11/2015)

The characters are clearly outlined. Timothy Spall, although you will like him here, is simply a terribly positive character who experiences adversity, the couple in love rushes headlong into everything, although Adam still maintains enough sanity not to lose his brilliant invention. It's a shame, a big shame, that it's so schematic. If the differences between the two worlds were highlighted more, if the movie focused more on dramatics and less on forced beauty, the film would have a different, dare I say better, impact. Like with a blown Easter egg. Beautiful to look at, but there's nothing much underneath that beauty. (19/11/2013)

Fighting gravity would appeal to just about chick, and here they pay around with mixing spit for her pleasure. It looks nice, but you get a smack upside the head from those twins that you end up forgetting what you were actually watching and just watch with your mouth open as a pretty interesting movie gets murdered. One star is for Jim Sturgess' beautiful eyes, the other two I don't even know what for. (03/01/2014)