At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Blistering performances.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I did not go into this with very high expectations, but was looking for something original to watch with my seven year old daughter. She loves animals and I thought it would be fun for her at least. It was a cute film with mild humor (Don't expect to laugh at the intended jokes). However, I thought the voice over was a bit annoying, the acting was so-so. However, the movie had a few redeeming moments when we could watch the pandas playing and wrestling about and doing cute panda antics. Overall my daughter would have given it a 10 and I would have given it a humbling 6, so I compromised and gave it an 8. It is a film which I surely will not watch a second time, however, I am glad to have seen it once.