FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

susan-317 I LOVE costume dramas. And this movie had the makings of a great costume drama. It was wonderfully cast, beautifully designed and perfectly costumed. It looked great.What a cast! Ms. Vikander as the lead; Christoph Waltz as the widow who buys Alicia Vikander out of poverty; DeHaan as an artist who is NOT pretending to be Keanu Reeves as he did in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets; the beautiful and talented Holliday Grainger who I loved in The Borges as Lucrezia (WOW!). Tom Hollander plays a doctor for laughs. And Kevin McKidd is in the movie for two minutes. What the heck? Zack Galifianakis as an alcoholic idiot. Again - what the heck is he even doing in this film?Joanna Scanlan apparently is contracted to play in every Dutch painter movie.And Judi Dench plays an Abbess who grows tulips.There were so many great characters, but the movie focuses on the wrong ones. Even the tulips are a character and we don't see enough of them. I didn't mind the I Love Lucy wacky bits, either, though they didn't quite fit.The film went horribly wrong somewhere. I lost interest in the main plot line, as did the characters. Even I was more interested in the characters that leave for the West Indies. What happened to all of them? Especially the man who leaves and comes back. "Where were you?" "Africa."I don't know if it was the editing or the script, but something needed a bit of extra work. If that had been accomplished, this would have been a marvelous film!

shayewatson If only this were actually about the tulip trade that still fascinates economists as well as tulip growers alike. This could have been a very interesting, informative and cleverly written story, but alas it was like watching a more drunken and sexualized tale of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" with more fish and tulips than bratty 9 year olds. Now, could someone please tell a GOOD story about the TULIPS, please?

Reno Rangan It is very sad to know that only blind people have seen it. Otherwise, this is not a response the film deserved. It was almost a solid 10 out of 10 film. Superfast narration. Beautiful setting. Of course the background score was good, but if it had an even better catchy score, then it would have been one of my all time favourites.Surely one of the best costume dramas I've seen in my life. It seems like a drama, but it was more a romance-thriller. Especially the final quarter was amazing. Little predictable, but overall the narration kept surprising me frequently. It was a secret affair that has been waiting to take along everyone around to the down!This story was narrated in the background as it had happened, that tells us about an orphan grew up in a convent and later an old wealthy man took her in as his wife. In return, she has to give him an heir, a son. But she's not succeeding, until a young artist who came to make the couple's portrait, then they two has fallen in love.The secret romance takes the surprise twists when it had interlocked with other people's affair around them. Now they all who are involved in it must try to fix it once for all. And of course, at the end someone must get hurt, at least not physically. Who is that or is it more than one is the conclusion unfolded so touchingly rather than too much emotion.This project saw too many obstacles. I'm happy it's now here after all these years of struggle. Based on the book of the same name. Excellently transformed into the screen. And not particular, but all the actors were equally great. I've heard lots about the love between the Netherlands and Tulips, but seeing it in a film was truly wonderful. PAY NO ATTENTION TO FILM CRITICS AND THEIR ARDENT FOLLOWERS. It's one hundred per cent a fantastic period drama of the year that's not to be missed, particularly by the grown ups!!9/10

TheLittleSongbird Despite the critical panning and the very delayed release, a large part of me was really intrigued into seeing 'Tulip Fever' because there is a good cast here (it is hard not to go wrong with Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz and Judi Dench individually, seeing them in the same film together promises even more) and have always been very fond of period dramas. Have often been in the same boat as critics when it comes to film opinions, but have also been known to go against the grain (a few controversial perhaps) and was prepared to for 'Tulip Fever' because there was potential here. Sadly have to agree with those who found the film heavily problematic, didn't think it was that awful to achieve the lowest possible score but the biggest feeling gotten out of it was disappointment.There are plus points with 'Tulip Fever'. When it comes to the costumes and sets the film is attractive and handsome enough, while it is beautifully shot generally. The music score from Danny Elfman is not among his best work and it's fairly subdued for recent Elfman, but there is an understated melancholy that suits the film very well. Vikander, Waltz and Dench do a very good job with what they have, Vikander just captivates in luminous appearance and sincerity and Waltz and Dench have always had the ability to make much of their material, regardless of the size of it and whether it's beneath them or not, and both rise above it (how Dench manages to with so little to do is remarkable). Holliday Grainger also does her best despite the misjudged way the character is written. Not everybody works. For my tastes, Cara Delevigne and Zach Gilifianakis didn't fit at all within the setting, to me they seemed too modern in look and manner, and Dane DeHaan (even more out of place) displays very little charisma and even less chemistry with Vikander. Their scenes together should have smouldered with sensuality but didn't have anywhere near the amount of passionate steam yet alone blistering fire to carry it off. Similarly, not all the photography works either with some of it being nauseatingly shaky. The direction is pretty pedestrian and careless and the characters, for the cast's best efforts, are at best ciphers with some frustrating and sometimes illogical decision making. It's the script and story that undoes 'Tulip Fever' the most. The script becomes even more implausible, melodramatic and clunky, especially in an overwrought and contrived last act that is like it came from a bad soap opera. We are not talking about these script qualities happening "at times", this is throughout the film and apparent very early on in the unnecessary opening narration that is little more than repetitive nonsense about tulips/flowers. Sadly the narration becomes even more repetitious, without much point and over-explanatory. The story is burdened by a dull pace and having far too many subplots, many under-explored or pointless or both which makes 'Tulip Fever' not easy to follow and a drag. Things become excessively absurd and under-nourished, and the film goes from dull and colourless, to contrived and melodramatic to overwrought and silly with not much interesting or hopeful between. Overall, had some promise but badly fails to bloom and wilts very quickly. A shame. 4/10 Bethany Cox