the audience applauded

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This film has a good few things going for it. A stellar cast, a good director and an interesting premise. It is shot BEAUTIFULLY. The DOP on this knocked it out of the park, it just looks sumptuous. The lighting is magnificent and every scene is composed and framed like an oil painting.But, the problem with this movie is - unfortunately - threefold. Firstly, the script is terrible - a real stinker - and it screams of lack of re-writing and editing. It just has no punch or pizazz at all and goes nowhere...slowly. The second problem is the acting. There is obviously some acting talent on this film. David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman gamely pull a little joy from the script but this is definitely not one for the reel. The rest of the cast are pretty terrible. Jude Law, given a weak script, shows his limitations and his Manc accent goes from Lancashire to Leeds to North London and then back again. His chemistry with Norah Jones is like brother and sister and is a bit: ewww! Norah Jones should stick to singing, Full stop. The rest of the ensemble are TV character actors hamming it up in cameos.The third problem is that a good director can see the limitation in the script and the acting talent and work around it. Wong doesn't do that and some of his directorial decisions are weird. The over use of stepped frames, terrible editing (you notice the edits) and misuse of thematic camera angles are just a couple of errors.Ultimately this is a film that is lovely to look at but fails the most important screen test: tell a story that makes you care about the characters. 3 stars for the DOP.

A great romantic movie shot at night time entirely. The story is good, I just love Norah Jones, she is so pretty and Innocent. I have already watched this movie 7 times and can't get enough of it.There is everything love, sadness, pity, hate, dreams.Norah Jones walks into a restaurant, where she starts eating blueberry pie at the closing time of the restaurant. Then after some days she goes to some another diner in Memphis and to a bar at ni9ght , doing job of bartender and waitress. Then she goes to las Vegas, where she gets what she wanted. The ending is nice.Throughout whole the movie the music keeps you in the movie. Its all about love and dreams.

****Minor Spoilers***** An amazing film, throughout which my title seems to be the strongest notion. It isn't uncommon to find movies that you can relate to or that trigger a certain emotion in yourself that you enjoy feeling. But once in a great while a movie comes along that really speaks to you. I could easily write several pages but I will do my best to confine my thoughts to several paragraphs.This is a film that you can let roll on in the background like a rhythmic blues song and and let it talk like only the out-of-focus can. Yet always present in the rhythm is the sad drawn out song of how lonely we can become and all the ways we dance around our heartache in an effort to run from it or allow the feeling to linger. In either case we never really put it behind us. This is illuminated by Jude Law's keys as well as the intermittent chapter screens constantly referencing the time elapsed and mileage from the first heartbreak.You will often see characters hesitate not in dialogue but in action which really adds to the notion that this movie is about the journey, rather than the destination. At one point Elizabeth states "I don't have any specific destination in mind but...I'm just gonna go till I run out of places to go". Her character is very relatable, has a natural beauty that allows you to pay attention to her without getting distracted and only speaks when she needs to. Thumbs up to Norah's utilization.Weisz gives a great performance (although I hate seeing her play dark roles) that really hits deep around the 45 min mark. She delivers a key scene involving a bar tab that came across strongly to me as an analogy for responsibility in matters of the heart.Portman also really came through on her role and bears its weight without flinching. I wasn't quite sure about why her character was placed in the movie till the very end of her story but it fits. The strategic use of Jude Law keeps male viewers interested and the story tied town to a timeline.Once in a very great while the dialogue sputters unnaturally and while the cinematography is very good, there are a handful of uses that jump out against the tone of the film. Either way, this movie has made it to my top 5 and I will be checking out Kar Wai Wong's other films for sure. Well done! 8.5/10

if you are here on IMDb, you will notice that most really bad movies have a high rating, such is the case for this piece of crap.in reality there is less than 1 of 6 movies that rate 4 stars , but here on IMDb it is more like 5 of 6 movies are 4 stars, so you begin to see that the people who tend to write reviews like the movies , my reviews are written from a neutral view, so with that said here we go my review of "my blueberry nights".Norah Jones is singer writer ,lets hope she stays that, i do not know if it was the material she had to work with or the ideal of the director to make a singer a star, but this movie sucks -plain and simple, it appeals mainly to women. the whole ideal of blue berry pie being orgasmic. i have sit thru some really bad female movies(eat-pray -puke)but blueberry nights is the worst, to me personally this is the worst movie of all time, it literally made me sick to my stomach , i wanted to get up and leave,Norah is the main character who leaves her boy friend Jude law , he makes really great blueberry pies , she takes off on a road trip no it is not a funny ,enjoyable road trip but a very dark trip filled with sickos , and very stereo-typed jazz joints as the ones in Memphis,on her journey she goes thru Memphis-neworlens-and Vegas to mention a few she meets a crazy cop,his even crazier wife, and then a crazy gambler played by Natalie portman,i don't know who would bankroll this crap but someone did and in my honest opinion this may be worst movie of all time, it reminds me of being held a captive in a nightmare, the funny thing is it had Jude law and Natalie portman in it, i am a Jude law fan,but i guess this shows anyone can be bought for money .miss Jones you need to stick to singing.and BTW if you are offered blueberry pie turn it down for chocolate cake.