Rotten
I have to admire a mainstream movie that's so overwhelmingly bleak, but that's the only real distinction of this dystopian sci-fi drama.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Blindness
Your vision of the world will change forever.
2008 · 2h 1m · R
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Fernando Meirelles
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Blindness
Overview
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Director and cast
- Fernando Meirelles Director
- Julianne Moore as Doctor's Wife
- Mark Ruffalo as Doctor
- Gael García Bernal as King of Ward 3
- Danny Glover as Man with Black Eye Patch
- Alice Braga as Woman with dark glasses
- Maury Chaykin as Accountant
- Yusuke Iseya as First blind man
- Yoshino Kimura Cast
- Don McKellar Cast
- Sandra Oh Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
43%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Sadly, 'Blindness' may realise its director's worst fear: to produce not only an exploitation B-movie but one, paradoxically, spoiled by its own integrity and misplaced 'artistic' mise-en-scene and intentions.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Rotten
Stilted, claustrophobic and more stylish than substantial.
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Set in a nameless English-speaking city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, it's an allegory that never rises to the level of believability.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
Blindness is a glum, ugly film, and pretentious in the bargain. But, perhaps least excusable, it is a fundamentally ill-conceived film, the visual depiction of a world without sight.
Christopher Orr, The New Republic
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