Frances Chung
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
grandmastersik
Sarah Michelle Gellar cuts herself on the leg as a kid and then on the arm as an adult... and because of two self-inflicted knife wounds some 10-15 years apart, we're supposed to believe that she's a troubled woman.That, unfortunately, is about as well scripted as this sore-fest is. We get told via someone's dialogue how troubled she is, that she's always moving around, and then later, she tells some bloke that she's kind of lost so keeps moving around. Yeah, it's that bad... only, not much seems to happen in between.Around the 45 minute mark there were hints of her character having some kind of repressed memories that are haunting her, and turning it off to take a phone call at the hour 6 minute mark, with the killer hot on her trail in some woods, I realised that I actually didn't care what happened in the end and never put the film back on.Normally, films that I turn off get a 1, but Sarah does her best to pull us into a tremendously non-event of a story and had I not been interrupted, I may have sat through it until the end... had I not dozed off.I honestly couldn't recommend this film to anybody.
siriusandblackbear
It wasn't that bad, it wasn't that great. The alternate ending makes more sense than the real ending, BUT major ick factor. I think I threw up in my mouth a little, to be honest. I can see why they didn't use it. I think it was the original ending and they only half fixed the rest of the movie to make up the difference in time. I would say they wrote it as 25 years and changed it to 15. Horrible job at age progression, makes the movie confusing as it ages some drastically and others not at all. I don't personally believe in reincarnation or possession, and this film sort of blends/confuses the two. Sarah was actually quite good but it's not a role that demands a ton of talent. Check out the alt ending, it works better(keeping that extra 10 years in mind or its criminal) but it'll still make you go ewww.I was generous with stars because others were stingy. If they actually used the creepy alternate ending, 2 stars, 4 since they didn't and it got 6 from me because of how many harsh 1 stars it got.
JohnyR82
I have to admit, that based on IMDb ratings I didn't expect much from this movie. But I was really nicely surprised, because "The Return" was really good and enjoyable movie. And I loved every minute of it.First of all, "The Return" has everything a good movie needs: engaging and coherent story, great atmosphere and interesting characters. But moreover, the atmosphere doesn't rely only on gallons of blood or cheap scares like in many other "horror" movies, and the characters were not "stupid" or "unnatural" like we know from many other scripts. In fact, it was one of the best mystery movies I've seen.I am not sure, why the movie has so low rating here on IMDb, but in my opinion, "The Return" is a great movie. And greatly underrated as well.
buiger
I disagree with most critics and others that basically bashed this motion picture (that includes a large portion of the public, considering the film's IMDb rating is at 4.7 at the moment of my writing this review). On the contrary, I found this to be a decent, relatively well made psychological thriller with some decent acting, good direction, an interesting premise (original if nothing else) and above all, excellent cinematography. Mind you, nowhere near being a masterpiece, but a good, decent piece of work, better than the average fare we usually get spoon fed from Hollywood these days.Recommended if you like tense movies, movies where the ending is not immediately spelled out at the beginning of the film.
