movie reviews Totally idiotic watermelon (green outside red inside) attempt at a thriller with evil mining (of course) corporation and unethical power hungry doctors.Julia Ormond in this feminist masterpiece is about as appealing as a bear trap despite her looks and expensive designer clothes. Any man who would go after her after a bout of her crotch snatching and razor slashing verbal rudeness would have to want to be neutered.....but that is what feminist movies are about I guess.It starts out fairly good but the story becomes more and more stupidly unbelievable.....at the end it is just an insult to anyone's intelligence. What's wrong? The whole story is unbelievable and as lame as a very bad Hollywood "B" sci-fi movie from the 50s.The Copenhagen police are searching for her so she goes to stay with her Dad and enters one door as the police leave by another...gee they are dumb and easy to fool I guess. This is just one of an endless stream of things that get worse as the film progresses.Don't get me wrong I care about the environment and the $32 million worth of West Greenland and Copenhagen scenery are actually very nice. I was actually glad the Inuit seal hunter got tsunamied in the beginning.....but I suspect in this twisted PC thing that was not what the director intended.It reminded me a lot of a movie The Hunter about the last Tasmanian Tiger who is killed to keep some evil corporation from finding out the poison it uses to kill prey---both movies have idiotic completely distorted ethical compasses.In this movie a possible non-radioactive perpetual source of energy unknown by known physics is deemed evil??? Can't have that because some "prehistoric" tapeworms in the melted ice water near it have killed a few people??? Worse yet a Mining Corporation might get rich of it. Dumb dumb dumb I can't find the words. As one viewer stated it is like the dumbest science fiction movie from the 50s. However at least in them you didn't have to put up with feminist agendas...just giant radioactive ants...No, they were better than this story when I think about it.Cost $32 million grossed $2 million (in US).DO NOT RECOMMEND

SnoopyStyle Smilla Jaspersen (Julia Ormond) is a loner living in Copenhagen who befriends a young Inuit boy from Greenland. He's unwanted and one day he falls off the roof of their apartment to his death. Nobody cares except Smilla. Only her sense of snow convinces her that he was murdered. Her investigation dives deeper and deeper into intrigue and danger.This has great atmosphere. I absolutely love the desolate tone of the snowy north and of Smilla's life. Julia Ormond really personify the iciness of this world. It's moodiness really pushing the story into a great mystery. But it does get into unrealistic territory. It's not so much a mystery rather as an action adventure. The ending in the ice really made the whole thing too outlandish. The mood of the earlier parts are lost.

kghispredi I really liked the main characters - a strong but seemingly cold-hearted woman and her strange neighbor who manages to be attractive and pitiful at the same time. One of the rare movies in which I was as much interested in the characters and their development as in the story line.Unfortunately half-way through the movie the events become more and more unbelievable and convoluted. People get killed, stuff explodes and our half-Inuit heroine goes through it like Lara Croft, with the difference that she keeps surviving not by skill or guns but by pure chance. The ending seems taken from an 80's James Bond movie. Disappointing for those of us who are not fond of evil scientist / mysterious forces clichés.

aurora Movie plus: - the scenery - the boy - Julia and Gabriel - that a lot of the conversation was taken directly from the book. - the ending of the movie, I liked what the mechanic did - it wrapped it up a bit more than the book ending (and I had to cry while watching the final scene with the boy)Movie cons: - it was attempted but still Smilla's way of thinking did not cross over from the book to the movie - the driving scenes irritated me as it was fake - the boat scenes were too short - the living thing and the worms.. NO that was not how it was in the book (sorry for repeating myself) and it made the whole story a very bad SF one.Quite a nice adaption of the book, still the book is better... the way I watched this movie was reading the book a bit while watching the movie in bits during two days.Still I give it an 8 out of 10 and wish that somewhere in the future someone will try his or her hand on it again with more time and more danish and inuit actors.