Frederick Malouf Really, the music makes the film. I have always thought grew films have a similar rhythm to music. This is no exception.Not as deep as other Hal Hartley films (Girl From Monday is awesome!) but it has that rhythm.BUT! How does a girl at co-ordinates 48.72W 38.50N end up in a hospital in Iceland? The location is so close to the US or Canada, is MILES away from Iceland, and yet, she ends up there. Weird. And the route, no matter where it would have crashed, would be closer to anywhere else except Iceland. Never understood that.Still Hal puts us to the test with his film style, people and cars criss-crossing at every opportunity, the music. The usual. Hal is a terrific director.After reading jshoaf's review 12 April 2008, I am further enlightened. I stand corrected on Hal's depth.

rubatoatm A thoughtful, intelligent film about science, human nature and the need for the dichotomy of good & evil. The "monster" is something we have made in which to lock up all the evil of which we humans are capable. Science and human kindness are the saviors, the forces that can eradicate the need for such symbols.In order to tame "evil", the good have to endure suffering, symbolized by the young ingenue who is injured and healed : a Christ-like character.This movie is gentle, sensitive and moving as well as filled with delicate humor. I have my own copy so I can watch it occasionally.

raining_83 I'm not sure how to put this, but this movie just kind of... happened.The plot seemed to go nowhere, the dialog for the most part was excruciatingly boring... There was potential with the writing for the monster, but all else aside, the plot twists had nothing to do with the story at all.I don't see what the plane crash had to do with anything... aside from just eating up time in the movie.That, and after finding out the monster had killed her fiancé, she simply goes back home and sleeps with random people. What?I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, save for getting ideas for what (or what not) to do for disgruntled, lonely beasties.

Atavisten To paraphrase Nietzsche just because it fits well with the theme. A monster/demon is hiding from the harsh realities of living ad infinitum in an unfinished American missile on Iceland and boy is he depressed and angry! The remote villagers try to calm him down by sacrificing brennevin (liquer) and the odd visitor to him. When an aspirant journalist comes to search for her lost boyfriend this is what happens to her as well.What a wonderful humour Hal Hartley deposit, it's constantly bubbling throughout this movie, the references to movies and real-life incidents are aplenty and always tongue-in-cheek. The critics who dismissed this are either giving up being a honest "objective" film critic or angry because they couldn't pigeonhole Hartley. A future classic.