I just fell in love with the movie and the idea of it. I was already loving Lea but this... the scene at the end where she screams because he had the procuder omg that is ACTING !!!!!

Perhaps it could be improved by deleting 45 minutes of ponderous, boring, static dialogue. Midway through I had to revisit the synopsis, to get a sense of what the inscrutable storyline was about. After doing so I came to the realization, "OH! That's it! ... ... ... ... Who cares????"

It ruins my Saturday night.

Wonderful thought provoking cinema. Lea is a super hero

An inscrutable, tedious and often baffling film that seems to revel in its ability to confound. Very unsatisfying.

A movie about artificial intelligence that feels like it was made by artificial intelligence. There may be some set pieces here that are fun to indulge, but ultimately the movie is plotless, the emotional undertones are muted, and the more philosophical themes are underdeveloped and thereby rendered uninteresting.

Lea Seydoux is fine, but frankly, if I hadn’t read the synopsis I wouldn’t have any idea what was going on in the film.

A cool concept that’s lost in the confusing execution. A good score with sleek set pieces but the jarring tonal shifts seem random. Clearly deep messages & themes but I can’t get my head around them. Yet Seydoux is mesmerizing as always.

It's weirdly beautiful and Lea rocks but it is aimless as hell

Pleasing to look at but a total bore. Instead of watching this movie watch your tv screensaver images for two hours.

+ story ± timelines - duration

It always seems to be circling deeper ideas about how technology changes human relationships but never quite takes the plunge. That said the movie also never settles on banal platitudes or cheap emotional manipulation.

Good costume, scenography ruined by the horrible accents, scriptwriting and ridiculous sci-fi plot. I think it could have been like a Lynch-era psychedelic film or even a French answer to Under the Skin, as it placed emphasis on visuals and left much to the imaginiation, but the actors repeatedly failed to convince me as they hammered away at the theme of forced emotionlessness. The visuals alternating between overdone and depressing. In this film, without any real explanation, and gloomy, at times sappy, we see no emotional or character development whatsoever (until the last minute). Lack of chemistry between the unconvincingly keen MacKay and the mopy, weathered Seydoux was exacerbated by the stilted and poorly translated-from-French and overly sentimental dialogue. He looks empty, fragile, characterless and emotionally stunted next to Seydoux’s disgruntled siren. Cringed each time they switched from French into English, but was reasonably impressed with MacKay's American accent. The script seemed good enough in the French parts of the film, but where it failed was with the English dialogue. It was written with what seemed like an elementary knowledge of English. The scenes that take place in the US are an opportunity to see what it’s like when someone who doesn’t speak English tries to write a script using only vocabulary from high school puff movies and rap videos. I give the director credit for an innovative, and truly French, approach to sci-fi, and great aesthetic sense, but felt it was overall a dissapointing flop.

I was making a shiv from a bone on my bed when I started watching. The film required my complete attention. The story and direction bubble with ambition. Artificial Intelligence has risen. This is one possibility of where it will take us. I consider the film to be cerebral, lacking in even a taste of razzle dazzle, but isn't that just like every artificial intelligence?

The year's best film!

A Lynchian Fever Dream. ‘The Beast’ is visually striking and surreal to its core.

Well acted and nicely shot but let down by a meandering, plodding narrative which is a bit too much like hard work.

Some beautiful imagery, and atmospheric scenes, but not the visual extravaganza some reviews would suggest (particularly for a part scifi movie). Compelling performances by Lea Seymour and George Mackay, but slow, overly long story with an unsatisfying conclusion that's typical of French/arthouse Cinema.

This film had great potential. Great actress -- it could have been an epic love story. But it wasn't. It didn't level up to the masterful French cinema. It did not evoke coherent or true emotion. Repetition of a past scene seemed like an editing blunder It tried too hard -- and I think it was done with the mind rather than the heart. That's my outsider opinion before remembering that they dedicated the film to Gaspard Ulliel who died in a ski accident. So the incoherence, elusiveness and the pain might have not been so incoherent after all.

Léa Seydoux is absolutely stunning to watch, as always. The movie itself somewhat lacked emotional depth, I haven’t left the cinema before the ending of a movie in a while. It bored me towards the end, without giving me any desire to watch what happens in the end.