Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

terrible... so disappointed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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

Wow, what a wonderful movie! The present title has been made with greatest art and would deserve rivers of words to praise every fantastic detail the Authors put in there just to entertain and show us. But this isn't the place: simply put, user's reviews exist just to help others to decide whether or not to watch the flick. And my answer is 'yes, definitely'.Just one word for Anatolia: the story is catching, the characters are interesting, the words are more than appropriate but the scenery steals the eye. Probably none wants to live there but Anatolia is full of life. Real, poor, human life.

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is an incredibly soothing movie. It is a gentle, lush journey through Anatolia, in which the everyday events of life are made beautiful. The beauty does not arise due to the addition of anything new, but through the illumination of what we often overlook.It is interesting that the movie's director Nuri Ceylan chose to focus the story on detectives chasing down a body in the Turkish countryside when the feeling of the movie is so tranquil. My view is that he wanted to point out the beauty that hides behind the curtains of our day-to-day existence, regardless of what those experiences are. This argument is supported by the focus on idle chitchat through out the story, when the actual events taking place are far from the normal human experience.Fundamental to this movie is sound. The director speaks to the viewer with the subtle noises that flow through this movie. Sound is also something that we tend to block out in our day-to-day rush through existence. By revealing the sounds that we unconsciously block out, the movie reveals to us a reality that we seldom experience: a reality that when revealed is all the more beautiful due to its general absence from our normal existence.The sociological aspects of this movie are interesting. For instance, the group of detectives, the prosecutor and a doctor need rest and food and spend the night in a village. The murder suspects eat and sleep among them, and the village uses the hospitality as leverage to get the improvements made to the village that they have been waiting for. The illuminated realism of the movie makes these interactions strangely beautiful even though common place and mundane. That being said, the fascinating quality of these interactions may have been heightened due to my lack of previous exposure to Turkish culture.A philosophical point is made late in the movie, starting with the doctor arguing in favour of an autopsy when there is no benefit in people knowing the truth but then eventually siding partly in the other direction. This relates to the broader search by the detectives to prove something when doing so might not provide any benefit to society as a whole. Without being fully certain of this supposition, this philosophical interjection might be conceived as linked to the broader attempt by the movie to reveal to us elements of our lives that are over looked: truth is important, but there a many layers to our existence and therefore many things that can be of defining importance to our lives.This review is taken from: amateurreviewspace.blogspot.com

Bilge Ceylan is, to me, one of the best in the world and by far the best director in Turkey. This movie simply is more than a murder story as are the rest of Ceylan's movies. The looks that the characters have on their faces simply tell more than encyclopedias can. The more you watch the movies, the deeper insight you start the develop on the characters. You become one of them. You start questioning yourself, find yourself and lose yourself in those characters. Are you the murderer? Are you the suspect? Or are you the Autopsy Technician? If you want to watch a piece from real cinema, see Ceylan's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia".

More Chekhov than CSI, the movie follows a group of men - a commissar, a prosecutor, a doctor, a few cops, a confessed murderer and his accomplice - through a long night as they travel in rural Anatolia, searching for the location of the victim's buried body.Introspective and slow-paced, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia plays like an anti-detective story. Details of the case are sketchy, the suspects' recollections fuzzy; the story unfolds placing a much greater emphasis on characters. Both the cinematography and the actors' gaunt, tense faces capture the sense of dream-like tiredness and quiet desperation of people persisting in an exhausting, possibly useless task; a few voice-overs are largely unnecessary.Men are lonely and brooding; female figures pass by like visions or ghosts; truth proves to be disquieting, both in the main case and in a tale told by the prosecutor which slowly turns into a horrible revelation - significantly, the anecdote is straight out of a short story by Chekhov himself (The Examining Magistrate).7,5/10