Excellent, smart action film.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The film spans out few stories about some people as they deal with their day to day lives,i didn't understand the concept of the whole story,instead i felt it was sort of dull especially at the end,what message were they trying to deliver to the viewers by making them sit through 90-95 minutes is beyond my understanding ,well the film has nothing special in store,few sad people living their life hoping for a better tomorrow is the subject of the movie,i guess it been rated above 7 due to a real subject being dealt with,thats all there is about the movie,now that i have seen it i would advice on avoiding the film if possible.

This is an intense, sad movie, with an excellent cast, well crafted but disturbing. This movie attempts to bring the audience in touch with the vagary of life. Whether this can be considered entertainment is debatable. The characters are forlorn, lost souls who are wallowing in disillusion and are bitter about their lives. Pretty heavy stuff. The movie dramatizes their struggle to find meaning in their lives and to discover an explanation for why things turn out they way they do, and here the movie fails. The movie bites off more than it can chew. When a movie delves into the more esoteric aspects of life, like the meaning of life, the purpose of existence, fate vs. coincidence, it's treading on thin ice and it's the rare movie of that genre that succeeds in avoiding the cold water. This is the case because unlike a conventional story that has a beginning, a middle and an end, stories with complex themes leave the audience hanging; they offer no answers, no resolutions, which is frustrating and unsatisfying. Once the director opens the Pandora's box of emotions, either close the box by bringing resolution to whatever is bothering the characters or don't go there in the first place. The movie makes a point that people are bitter. Now what? Where does the movie go from there? This movie does a great job in dramatizing personal dissatisfaction and the bitterness associated with unfilled wishes, but doesn't bring closure. So if you want to watch some fine acting, then this movie is for you. But be warned: it's not a happy movie.

It's always pleasing to unexpectedly stumble across an intelligent and thought-provoking film such as this. Essentially a study on both the fickle nature of happiness and our (mis)understanding of it, and of the random manner in which complete strangers can alter the path of a person's life with neither being aware of the fact, 13 Conversations interweaves the tales of a handful of characters with deceptive ease and no little skill. Not only does the film smoothly pull all the strands together, it also does so by telling a tale that is not chronologically linear, but which overlaps in the same way that its characters' lives overlaps.Perhaps the only flaw is that a disproportionate amount of screen time is given to Alan Arkin's character at a cost to the others. John Turturro's professor and Matthew McConnaughy's yuppie lawyer in particular seem to be the casualties of this, but it has to be said that Arkin gives a masterful performance and carries his part of the film with ease. The dialogue is sometimes a little too clever for its own good – we get a sense of people making speeches to each other rather than holding conversations on occasion – but, having said that, what the characters have to see is always interesting and absorbing. A very good film, worthy of its high rating.

I'm giving this a solid ten even though it features a physics professor who seems to have little grasp on the subject beyond junior high level. At one point he angrily tells a student that there are "no if's in physics," possibly inspired by Tom Hanks' great line "There's no crying in baseball!" from A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN.The laws of physics are not set in stone. If they were, there would be no need to do further research and publish new textbooks. We could have "the" physics textbook like we have one times table.The First Law of Thermodynamics, the Conservation of Matter, had to be completely rewritten after the dawning of the atomic age. Students who had been forced to memorize this word for word had to memorize a revised version.Other than that, this is one of those movies that I get more out of every time I see it. And the older I get, the more I realize it's truth.If I had to put the topic of the conversations in one word it would be Change. Each of the characters have to cope with changes in their lives, some for the good and some for the bad. If there's anyone who can't identify with that, I don't know what planet they're living on.The way that characters meet up with one another by "chance" makes me wonder if the makers of CRASH are also fans of this movie.This is one of those movies that makes me thankful for home video. We have two nice big multiplexes in our area. But if you have eighteen screens and sixteen are tied up with big budget special effects spectacles (many of which, I note from the IMDb, have grossly underperformed this summer) there's not room for personal independent films.Nice work. I look forward to the film's makers' next project.