Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Load of rubbish!!

The acting in this movie is really good.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I just loved this film. The animals deepened my perspective on this horrific historical period. In many ways they symbolize mankind's inclination to impose cruelty and spread hate to the most innocent, the most loving beings. To see corruption imposed on the most undeserving made me reach a level of empathy and emotion I never even knew I had. The enormity of evil of the human race is depicted through these animals and their reaction to the bombs, their fear and inability to understand what is happening really shows how distorted and disturbing and disconnected war is from all living things and this movie really shows how in so many ways we are one of the weakest and most cowardly species on this planet.

Tragic, hard to stomach, needless. Sad, if you want to ruin your day, to make you feel horrible and witness atrocities against animals then this film is right up your alley. It is like watching faces of death on loop

As others have written, we've seen this formula many times before: Righteous Christians put their lives in danger to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. As a Jew whose people came from Poland and Germany, I thank the Zookeeper and his wife. And yes, the usual Jew haters always show up on IMDb to claim the Holocaust is a fraud. Good luck with that.I liked this movie because it tells a story without going over the top, which many Holocaust movies do. The fact that it happens in a zoo makes it different.But it also must be said: The vast majority of Poles LOATHED the Jews and were thrilled to see the Germans murder them. Indeed, even after the war. Poles would pray upon freed concentration camp victims and murder them. A movie such as this shouldnt scrub the dirt from Polish hands.

I enjoyed The Zookeeper's Wife and would recommend it to most audiences. Skillful direction by Niki Caro, excellent sets and costumes, a slightly washed-out look to the cinematography which nonetheless has a full range of color, and a capable cast. The story is based on the actions of the owners of the Warsaw Zoo, who saved the lives of more than three hundred Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland.Nonetheless, the performance of Jessica Chastain is the single most important factor in the film. Unlike many American actors, she understands that a Polish woman of the 1940s does not look, move, or carry her features like a contemporary American. So fully does Miss Chastain inhabit her character that I never had the sense of an actress making choices.The film is a bit long and a bit slow, like most films today, but not to a damaging extent. I particularly admired the way that the official from the Berlin Zoo who becomes a Nazi officer, well played by Daniel Bruhl, has certain scruples and personal moral standards although he embraces the Nazi philosophy. He's a villain, but not a cardboard villain, and part of the suspense of the film is waiting to see which lines he will cross and which he won't.