the audience applauded

A Brilliant Conflict

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

I watched the movie with my mom and that made it a lot sadder. i consistently wanted to grab her hand, as a little girl. the actors were surprisingly good. Especially the little boy and Dev Patel. I did find the overall storyline a bit strangly divided. doing 50/50 in a story of 20 years apart felt wrong. for example Dev's character did buy a house and moved in their in like 5 minutes. he also fell in love with rooney in seconds. i wanted more romance okey! the scene's with the real mother got me sad. the fact it was a real village with real people made it even more so.

I bet a friend £20 that there were lions in this film! There wasn't any! I feel misled and betrayed. I haven't watched the movie but now I'm not going to.

This is such a thought provoking story, I just wish that the second half and ending had been crafted as expertly as the first half of the film.Sunny Pawar is an adorable and precocious creature and simply shines in this role.The filmmakers introduced the family and young Saroo in such a captivating way. You are transfixed on the native family and their circumstances, his train journey and his antics for surviving the streets of Calcutta. You wonder about the other street urchins and their fates.And then once he lands in Tasmania with his adopted family, the richness of his story just sort of falls apart and goes stale. The second half of the film lacked all of the majesty and mesmerizing details that were poured into the first half. The Australian father was completely forgettable. His adopted brother felt like an interruption rather and you never really felt a genuine bond which supposedly they did share in real life. His australian life felt like it all took place in a single living room - gone are the expansive countrysides of India, any of the social surroundings feel contrived and limited.The breakup scene with Rooney Mara was utterly confusing and unrealistic.Nonetheless the story is fascinating and you should watch the movie til the end.

From a poor rural Indian family, 5-year old Saroo ends up in Calcutta, over 1,000 miles from home. Unable to explain where he comes from, he is ultimately adopted by an Australian family. Still troubled by the memories of his first family, the invention of GoogleEarth enables him to look for the childhood home he lostThis is a great, great story, and I really wanted to like this film rather more than I did.There is a lot which is good about it. Dev Patel as adult Saroo is excellent, Nicole Kidman and David Wenham are both good as his adoptive Australian parents - I had to put to one side my feeling that they are the "go to" Australians for these sort of parts in recognition of box-office clout - and Sunny Pawar as young Saroo is also very good. So the performances work. The location work, both in India and Australia is also good although, again I had to put a lid on a strong feeling that I had only recently seen Indian youngsters suffering hard times in slums in Slumdog Millionaire.But two things meant that this film was not the success for me which I had hoped it would be. One was the fact that I think it would have worked much better as a dramatisation than an adaptation - if the narrative had not featured Saroo's fellow adoptee, his troubled "brother" Mantosh, or his American girlfriend Lucy, both of whom were major obstructions to the narrative flow without having any dramatic purpose (other than that they actually existed), the film wouldn't have felt quite so bumpy.And the other thing is that much of it took far too long to make its point or, having made it, lingered far too long before moving on. I understood the purpose of showing us the enormity of 5-year old Saroo vs Calcutta - how huge, how daunting, how terrifying for a small child. But I think the audience - or this member of it, at any rate - got the point a good 10 minutes before it stopped being shown. Ditto the train journey to Calcutta. Ditto Saroo moping around Melbourne.The film is 2 hours long, and would have been a much more involving experience at half an hour less.I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it - the final sequence is worth seeing on its own - but, for me, it was a worthy effort which didn't quite succeed.