Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

drjgardner This film has wonderful acting from everyone involved, especially the two young kids and Benicio del Toro. The script is excellent, with enough twists and turns to keep you on your feet. The music and photography only add to the merits of this well-crafted film. The only fault I can find in this film is the direction that moves too slowly for my tastes. The director Susanne Bier isn't known for her action films and I enjoyed her pacing in "The Night Manager", but here it is a little too slow.

Joe Malone Whilst 7.2 may look like a respectable IMDb score it is something of a travesty for this particular movie. It's rare for movies to fall into that category of movies that I can watch repeatedly but things we lost does just that. It is seven years since I first saw the movie and age does not weaken its impact. Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro have never been better but then there simply isn't a bad performance in this movie. The movie is beautifully written and directed and even at its current score of 7.2, things we lost, is a vastly under rated movie that far too many have failed to see. Add it to your top 100 must see movies before you die.

moonspinner55 This drama about loss and addiction hasn't a shred of irony or a sense of surprise, it doesn't even contain much of a connecting essence between its two parts. Halle Berry loses her husband in a freak occurrence, later turns to his boyhood pal--a heroin-addict struggling with recovery--to help fill the void of loneliness...but kicks him back out when he gets too close to her and her two kids. Screenwriter Allan Loeb and director Susanne Bier treat drug-withdrawal in shorthand, as if it were a 24-hour virus, while Bier keeps her camera fixated on photogenic Berry's elfin face and wet, tremulous eyes. This is a glossy, tony, yet indecisive piece of work about nearly-ruined lives, set in too-clean Seattle surroundings and featuring chummy, good-hearted people (we don't learn what happens to a murderer who figures in the story--that's too unattractive an angle for these filmmakers to take on). Loeb and Bier are alternately naïve and unfocused, committed only to the most basic of movie clichés (such as a room the widow won't go into, or the bonding under the basketball hoop). The acting by Berry and Benicio Del Toro remains fairly strong despite the paint-by-numbers set-up, while the romantic undercurrent swirling about (yet kept at a safe distance) is enough to move some viewers. It's a peculiar film, however: one-part soap opera and another part compassionate character study. But, since the characters don't really emerge as living, breathing people, the results are often illogical and shallow. ** from ****

Erika Rayel Benicio del Toro's facial gestures are captivating from beginning to end. He wedges in occasional humor to a tragic situation. A harrowing depiction of a once successful attorney turned heroin addict masterfully performed by del Toro. His presence and personae command the screen. It's inspiring to see the main character maintain a sense of dignity about him even during the nadir of his life. No facades about what he does to survive, or the occasional deplorable state of his body. Refreshing cynicism. He derives a sense of self-worth from his brains. The alternating affluent and adverse living conditions don't compromise his authenticity. One roots for him to rise from the ashes. In real life it would be highly unlikely for someone in his situation to have one, let alone four wealthy people (a couple of them strangers) trying to help him get a second wind. Creative dialog. Excellent supporting actors, including charming children. It needed a less sad title to attract a larger audience. Benicio should have been nominated for awards for this one.