Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

pajeme1956-1 It's just so uninteresting. While watching the movie, all I could think of was "Poor Clive Owen. Stuck in this awful mess." He was supposed to be this tyrant of a father, yet I never saw any proof of this. The only way you would know he was mean was because other character kept telling him so. I felt like the scenes where he was so mean and nasty were left on the cutting room floor, and we were left with a sanitized version. I felt like I had seen this movie on Lifetime or Hallmark Hall of Fame. Or perhaps they blended the two together and came up with this. Commercials would have made a huge improvement.It was choppy and uneven in most places, and yet, occasionally there would be a wonderful scene that was stuck in now and then. The movie did have some beautiful scenery and cinematography of Australia.

tieman64 Scrumptious cinematography, intimate camera-work, some naturalistic child acting and some moments of raw emotion elevate Scott Hicks' "The Boys Are Back", an otherwise conventional film which sees Clive Owen playing a sports writer who attempts to cope with the death of his wife. Much of the film finds Owen and his kids grieving, struggling to bond, and failing to balance personal agendas.The film heavily evokes Anthony Minghella's "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (particularly some sequences in which Owen talks to his ghostly wife), but Hicks' style keeps things fresh. His plot may be innately melodramatic, even saccharine, but the film's gentle camera-work and "poetic" editing helps downplay this.7.9/10 – Style elevates formula. Worth one viewing.

trpdean This is one of the poorest movies I've seen - I'd no idea what it was about, but generally liked Clive Owen, so thought I'd rent it. It's the only film I can remember in which I actually yelled two or three times at the TV screen "End. END!" Owen plays the most Uriah Heepish parent I've ever seen. Extraordinarily passive - yet deceitful in many ways (Not least, as a top newspaper's sports editor who lies to all at work, and to the nation about covering the biggest international sporting event held in Australia each year - one can only hope he was fired, though there's an odd failure to mention the consequence).I've never seen a parent apologize each time his child deserves punishment. Child throwing things? Apologize. Child hits him repeatedly in the head? Apologize. Child refuses to get in the car to go somewhere? Apologize. Child won't get up from having a tantrum on the floor in public? Apologize. Child wants to throw things in the house? Apologize. Child cries because he wants to swim instead of be in school? Apologize.Say that you're deeply deeply sorry for every breath you take, every move you make - you get the idea.This is a creepy movie - the parent abandoned his vows to God, his son and his spouse to be true until death - and is somehow not made to feel the terrible consequences of his abject despicable treatment of his spouse. Why did he leave her? "I got (this sexy babe) pregnant". I constantly wished the worst for the protagonist - which I don't think the film intends. I loathe this movie.

Sirus_the_Virus I enjoyed The boys are back. That is mostly for one reason. Clive Owen does a great job and he is actually funny at some points. Owen's performance is this movie. Clive Owen is a fantastic actor(as we saw in 2004's Closer, a fantastic film which he got an Oscar nomination for) and here he isn't as good as he was in Closer, but he still does a great job.Owen stars as Joe Warr, a father of two who has been married twice. And has two children from different families. When his wife Katie dies of cancer, he obviously becomes very lonely. So all he has left is his two sons. His son Harry, travels from England to come live with them. So Joe tries to bond with his sons.Doesn't that sound exciting? Not really. The film is a little annoying but only for one reason. The film's main flaw. The kids in the film are very annoying. I know they are just kids but they are really annoying. The youngest son, Artie, whenever his mother dies, says"See, I told you mom was going to die". The other son, is supposed to take care of his younger brother when Joe goes away on a business trip. A bunch of drunken teenagers come to his house and practically destroy it. Then everyone blames Joe for the rest of the film.I enjoyed the film. It has a big heart and it's funny and for a minute or two sad. I liked the film. The plot is nothing special though it's an entertaining film. To be perfectly honest Clive Owen is the main good thing about it. I think you should see it.The boys are back: B