Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The Eclipse. A very fine performance from Ciaran in this film. This is smart, scary and thought-provoking... Don't watch it on your own..you will 'jump' when you least expect it.Having viewed The Eclipse, I felt myself wanting to watch it again...There is so much' going on, which 'jolts' the viewer that you hardly have time to articulate what has occurred. Ciaran Hinds effectively gets 'inside' his character, Michael Farr, demonstrating his anguish, loss and vulnerability. The 'fight' scene with Aidan Quinn is brutal in its' exposition with Ciaran 'holding back' and then 'letting go' and is perhaps a metaphor for much of what is happening in the story. We see Farr 'on a journey', culminating in a possible new connection/relationship? Yet, had resolution occurred? The viewer has to seperate reality from imagination. Has Farr's grief pushed him to the edge? Is what he is 'seeing' real or locked in his psyche? This is a thought provoking film which makes you consider the possibilities. On a lighter note,one thing we can be certain of is that, yes, Aidan Quinn does have vivid blue eyes...but does Ciaran Hinds know he has the most beautiful hazel-green eyes, a girl could lose herself in?Melies D'Argent Award for Best European Film Best Film & Best Screenplay Awards 2010 Irish Film & Television Academy Award Best Actor Award for Ciaran Hinds 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Best Supporting Actor Award for Aidan Quinn 2010 Irish Film & Television Academy AwardsHighly Recommended

Like many films with a little spookiness in them, the DVD cover and other promotional material tends to try to sell it as SCARY, when in fact there was only one moment I found actually unsettling to the point of scariness.This was a very gentle film in many ways, humane, intelligent and thoughtful, with flawed characters who inspire sympathy as they muddle through various difficulties. The actors are wonderful. The contrast between the ordinariness of the lives portrayed and the otherworldiness of the scary bits made for an uneven overall tone, but one that worked well. Everything was thematically connected - the mystery of life and death, coping, romance, the promise of hope and the creeping shadow of despair... I enjoyed it very much.

This chilling and thoughtful thriller from top Irish playwright McPherson exemplifies what movie makers who've earned their chops on the stage can bring to the big screen. The characters are three-dimensional; sharp, efficient dialog defines the relationships and moves the plot forward; life in a recently bereaved family, a small Irish town, and a literary festival is acutely observed.The Eclipse maintains a spooky tension throughout and in a few instances will have you jumping out of your skin. (One minor criticism: Loud incidental music is constantly deployed to manipulate viewers, a perennial flaw of many mystery and horror films.) However, this is not a traditional ghost story but a psychological drama filtered through the perspective of the widowed father masterfully portrayed by Ciaran Hinds. It's probably not too much of a stretch to compare The Eclipse to In Bruges, the debut film of Martin McDonagh, another acclaimed U.K. dramatist, in the way it exploits the conventions of genre even as it defies formula to tell a more original, gratifying story.A bonus: The cathedral-dominated town of Cobh, Cork County, provides a stunningly picturesque backdrop to The Eclipse, while adding to the overall isolated, claustrophobic atmosphere.

What a disappointment. It had such great potential, a widower who is seeing something in his house (a ghost?) and doesn't know whom to turn to, 2 children living with the father, a father-in-law who resents being put in a home, a writer of ghost stories who visits this town, and a narcissistic writer who wants to have an affair with the first writer. The intersection of all these characters had such promise -- wasted! The question of love and relationships gets several different views but they're all a little blurry.We waited for all these character's interactions to be resolved, but for naught. We had to watch the special features with the actors talking about their characters to get enough background information to finish putting some of the story pieces together that didn't make it into the film.One thing I especially liked during the film was that the surprise/intense scenes were not proceeded or accompanied by the scary-music-track that usually alerts the watchers to "here's the scary part." This is what was so lacking in the film -- almost all the pieces were there for a memorable, thoughtful, suspense-filled story. It is truly too bad that the story telling and editing didn't fulfill on the promise and premise of the movie.