Filme ruim, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas e pioram o filme, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, a história é fraca, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores.

It's not a bad movie. It's just the kind of depressing subject you might want to avoid.

Amazing acting by Javier Bardem. Complex characters who are both good & bad. Poverty, mental illness & crime mixed with human nature.

This is a beautiful piece of filmmaking. Bardem controls every scene like a master craftsman. The story is stark and depressing. An experience of being emersed in the gritty harsh lives of people who are not white Americans.

Dark, beautiful. I guess people couldn't grasp the critique of capitalism in 2012 before Parasite and Uncut Gems

Biutiful is complex and gritty. Bardem is a hard criminal, a protective father and terminally ill with prostate cancer. His manic ex-wife and grimy business partners all prove to be obstacles to him finding a place of safety for his kids once he passes. The final moments are heart wrechingly good.

I thought this film would be nice for a special day/ocassion - I had a feeling it would appeal to me quite a lot. Its certainly very grim and I suppose that was to be expected but if anything it was even more sort of despairing and bleak than I'd expected - its less philosophical (about death) and more an almost character based diary (although the precise days aren't specified to the viewer but otherwise the analogy works) of the sad circumstances he's faced with and has to adapt to, with mistakes unfolding along the way. It covers themes including illness, forgiveness and exploitation. It has to be said that Javier Bardem does give an outstanding performance as the main character, Uxbal. His stoicism and determinism is certainly respectable. I should perhaps also point out that this film does include some quite shaky/jerky camerawork, which may frustrate some people - I think its to give it that sort of regular, street shot, urban feel to it - its not at all a big glitzy Hollywood film, of course. There is a poignancy to it, even though it is really quite subtle I suppose. I would recommend this film, as long as you know its quite a bleak watch.

🇲🇽🇪🇸 Dirigida y producida por Alejandro González Iñárritu, este drama psicológico nominado a mejor película extranjera en el 2011 en la que Uxbal, un padre soltero, descubre que padece cáncer y mientras lucha por asegurar el futuro de sus hijos en Barcelona, también debe asumir la culpa de su ocupación como médium de los espíritus de los recientemente fallecidos. Es una película desgarradora y brutal que describe lo cruel que puede ser la vida para los inmigrantes, los pobres y los desdichados. La actuación de Javier Bardem es muy especial y su nominación al Óscar fue muy merecida, la manera como da vida a su personaje que sufre tragedias casi a diario es demasiado agobiante y melancólica.

Gritty down-to-earth social drama set in Spain.

Javier Bardem gives a great performance to be accompanied by great direction but the plot development seems a little off. It's a melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and guilt.

Beautifully well directed by Iñarritu, who has us used to it and perfectly leaded by a sleek performance by Javier Bardem.

This film is very interesting and I was really impressed and I believe that it is the best film of inarito

One of those films that gets nudged to the back of a watchlist and gets passed over due to its substantial length and heavy content, Biutiful is an ambitious film with big names attached to it that doesn't really live up to its sweeping scope. Though dotted with unique elements of psychological surrealism to give the film a specific identity in its commentaries on family and loss, Iñárritu's return to the Spanish language is a victim of its own massive scope that lets the film feel unfocused at times, and is dripping with this totally grim and unrelenting tone that is not necessarily the most palatable cinematic offering (the farthest thing from a spoonful of sugar, especially given the hefty runtime). Despite all that (which may be a fit to certain tastes), there is no denying the powerhouse performance of Bardem, who gives incredible authenticity to a character in the midst of complete collapse and tragedy. (3/5)

In Alejandro Inarritu's Biutiful, Javier Bardem plays Uxbal, a father of two who, in an effort to raise his children, resorts to street crime, paying off the police, and communicating with the dead to make ends meet, all while dealing with a recent diagnosis of cancer and the reality that he has only two months to live. The film is depressing and tragic and dark, but somehow inspirational as it follows the story of a man who simply wants to do what's best for his children knowing that they will soon be without a father. Javier Bardem is fantastic as the doomed protagonist and the probing handheld camerawork effectively allows the viewer to intrude on the lives of the characters.

It's every thing you would expect from inarittu touching and complex, but long and self-indulgent. Bardems preformace alone is worth watching this film for.

Unconventionally pessimistic contradiction towards portraying an ailing life nearing an end only to suffer the blunt hit of reality's constantly reminding harshness with only one light of hope via nondiegetic skeptical reassurance. While Bardem's humanly struggling performance finely carries the story with verbal uneventful delivery, this is Iñárritu's directorial transition, by expressive direction and spacious aura by polished cinematography, to his definitive masterpieces "Birdman" and "The Revenant" as he practiced his storytelling vision leaning more towards ambition at the same time also leaning too long on the scale of little overdoing the brutal hits in consequential life's circumstances. (B)

It has stunning cinematography, a chilling soundtrack, an excellent lead performance from Javier Bardem, and a compelling direction from Alejandro González Iñárritu. However, its narrative is convoluted and uneven, and its intertwined plot lines and heavy subject matters are not as well executed nor absorbing as his previous works.

There is really nothing new here and the performances aren't quite good enough to cut through the melodrama.

Contrary to most of the reviews here, I loved this movie! Nominated for the Academy Award for best actor, I'm surprised that Javier Bardem didn't take it home.

Eerie on so many levels the movie is close enough to turn you into a pessimist even if you are the most positive person in the world. The story handling timeless questions of life, love and death is just beautiful though. Sometimes disturbing it shows seemingly the true life under the bright cover of sunny Barcelona, but mostly reveals the hard truth of existence under the golden billion threshold.