madjayhawk-152-178698 I was ready to punch the eject button on the player after about 15-20 minutes. The movie, however, was laying the ground work for an excellent story during that time and, frankly, it got a little old but I stuck with it. Then Briony told her lie and off the story went. My rating went from 2, maybe 3, to a 9 by the time the credits rolled. That has never happened to me before. And what an ending. The acting, the direction, the music, the sets, the costumes, and the story were all worthy of at least a 9. 9 or 10s are very rare for me.

nshdnn This is one of my favourite movies and McAvoy's execution of his character is one of the reason why it is so! absolutely heart wrenching character! i feel that witnessing his character alone is reason enough to watch this film.

ajafaripanah Watched this movie again for third time . First time was mid 2008 about 10 years ago but still like I am watching it for first time . one of best drama I ve ever seen !

blumdeluxe "Atonement" is a movie evolving around a young girl who falsely accuses her sister's brother of rape and thus ruins and influences the life and relationship of both of them.The production is of high value, delivers beautiful pictures and a very earnest and atmospheric set-up. Unfortunately, at times it is a bit hard to follow the story because at several points the flashbacks and time shifts include such great deals of time that the coherence is suffering. The ending, on the contrary, is pretty strong and achieves to weaken the negative impact of the questionable story-telling. I like how parts of the movie are proved wrong and how the audience is surprised by that. However, it would have been of benefit to tell one story consequently and not different stories of false accusations, war and love.All in all it is a very well-produced and serious movie but in my eyes it is not superb. On the other hand I have to admit that I'm not a great fan of historical movies anyway, so I can guess that many people will like the film a lot better than I do and it is definitely worth a watch.