chet19 Take Shelter is a story of a schizophrenic man who thinks a big tornado is coming. He's obsessed with building an unnecessary storm shelter. He blows his family's money, loses his job, estranges his wife, steals his boss's construction equipment, and becomes the laughing stock of the town...all because of his mental disease. You wait two hours for the payoff: Surely you know that a real storm will occur, and he was right all along and the others were all wrong. Uh, no. As you wait and wait for the big payoff, you slowly realize that it ain't gonna happen. The big storm he feared turns out to be a mild windy rain shower. All the people who doubted him and laughed at him were right. He was wrong. What a waste of two hours. No payoff. No changes (there's no indication that he changed his mind at the end or that he cured his schizophrenia...instead, we see him at the end just as he was at the beginning. An epic waste of time.

filmoman This movie was a boring one, despite the fact that it was well done. The action moves at a snail pace and it involves very bland characters, and if it wasn't for the deaf daughter would have been even worse. The movie is not saved despite its decent acting, very good cinematography and a good dose of realism. As an art flick it may have pleased some but personally I found it extremely unsatisfying and I only watched it to the end because I was curios how will happen, which in one word would be: disappointing. It made me strongly feel that I wasted 2 hours of my time. I would admit, though, that I don't seek for art in a movie, I seek entertainment, excitement, an original idea, some remarkable achievements. Nothing of such and when it comes to the idea, to me it seemed and redoux and modern version of Noah story. I was fooled into watching by the praise ad overrating of this movie.

robert-259-28954 First, "the good news." It has a great cast, headed by an always understated Michael Shannon, utterly wasted in this monumental mistake of a movie. But by what supernatural event it managed to even recoup its production costs back is a miracle of Biblical proportions. Now, for "the bad news." I have always known that foreign films progress much more slowly than American films, taking their time and gradually building to a climax, such as the case in this epic loser. This entire movie was about as interesting as watching weeds grow, nothing personal against weeds. The ONLY thing that kept me in the room was hoping for a big "pay off," a climax that NEVER CAME. Instead, it was a droll, completely uninteresting, boring, fatally clichéd, anti-climatic, uttering moronic ending with all the inventiveness and creativity of week old, moldy bread, nothing personal against moldy bread. The only thing WORSE than this replacement for heavy duty sleep medication, were the over the top reviews that some brain dead imbeciles and major league psychopaths gave this pile of junk. Could we have possibly been watching the same movie?? The only thing I want to do after subjecting myself to this pitiful excuse for "entertainment," is to sue the producers who made this horrendous turkey for the two lost hours of my life back.

Susan Wagner-White I stumbled across this movie by just scrolling while on a streaming website and am I ever glad I stopped and clicked 'play'. Too often I end up spoiling movies and TV shows for myself by coming here and reading up on them, but this time I didn't. Not surprisingly I was thrilled I did it that way. From the very minute this movie started I was swept up in the building suspense. The man who played the dad was fantastic. His facial expressions were spot on. You could literally see inside his mind as the emotions worked their way through his brain. The mom was great too. I could feel her fear of her husband as his growing paranoia (or was it?) took over their lives. This is the kind of movie I would rave about to anyone who would listen, and even though I just watched it this afternoon, I want to watch it again right away. I think there are many pieces I missed. Great movie!