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Golshifteh Farahani in About Elly (2009)

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About Elly

12 reviews
1/10

can i rate it with 0 star !!

I will be happy to give it the worst rating available for the movie that will waste 2 hours of your life waiting for nothing, what keeps me watching is that it has 8.1 * rating, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME , i registred just to tell you that
  • yassinelkhalloufi
  • Jan 27, 2018
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1/10

Stupid people lying…is this entertainment?

  • mamlukman
  • Jan 15, 2016
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1/10

Berlin film festival 2009

As someone who saw many beautiful and meaningful Iranian movies, this film was completely disappointing although many famous Iranian actors and actresses are playing in it. I attended to the preview of this movie in Berlin film festival 2009, and all I can say that it was waste of time for two hours. this film heavily suffers from the lack of a precise plot and specified dialogue. at the end it leaves the audience with this unanswered question "what was the purpose of the film and what I have to conclude?" in whole movie you only hear that people calling themselves by forenames while you don't have enough time to know who is who. most of the time, weak dialogues between the characters consist of only calling the names, asking where are the others and when those others show up from nowhere, then they ask "what's happening"! the film is very nervous and I as someone who fully understand Persian couldn't follow the discussions, let alone the foreign audiences who have to read the English subtitles.

all and all, I can not recommend it at all.
  • m_gh_gh
  • Feb 7, 2009
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1/10

Just don't go by the rating 8.1. Best avoid it.

A disappointment of gargantuan proportions. The ending is really really sad and it makes you want to bang your head against the wall. It makes you wonder what was the point of the whole movie. An anti-climactic ending, to put it extremely mildly.

The movie trudges along slowly but the only thing that kept me going was that if the movie has an 8.1 rating, it might have an ending like "The Sixth Sense" or "The Illusionist" to make all the past 90-120 minutes worthwhile. But the ending was a dud, so the movie gets a measly 1 star rating for me. The universe would have been a better place without this movie. I wonder how many man-hours have been wasted all over the world over this movie. The script-writer of this movie should be made to dig his own grave until he dies of exhaustion in the same very pit. Say NO to such movies. I have got a very special set of skills that I am gonna use to find all such script-writers and....you know what I am talking about.
  • gjainroorkee
  • Apr 2, 2016
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1/10

incredible...

I decided to watch this movie with my family based on it's IMDB rating and very good reviews. I usually don't review on IMDB but this is maybe the worst film I have ever seen in my life. Please do not waste 2 hours of your life watching this!!!
  • georgen90
  • Jun 9, 2020
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1/10

Awful, Boring.

Awful, boring, slow, disgusting, rubbish movie.

There is no story, no twists, nothing interesting.

I did not enjoy 1 minutes of this movie.

This movie was just made for the sake of making a movie.

No purpose, no meaning, nothing to conclude.

Stupid story that does not make sense.
  • criminal-96421
  • Aug 15, 2017
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1/10

What a waste!

What's wrong with imdb ratings? Watch this movie! 8* !! Seriously??! Drama, okay! Mystery Thriller? Are you kidding me?! Wasted my 2 long hours watching one of the worst mystery thriller of my life. Why such movie get praised I wonder!
  • s_o_l_o
  • Feb 21, 2020
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1/10

my notes

  • FeastMode
  • Jun 30, 2019
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1/10

Just nothing and boring

Let's watch something worth to watch not this one . You will wasting your time.
  • peregrinushorus
  • Jul 20, 2021
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1/10

Hate this movie.....

  • vijeshakmkm
  • Aug 8, 2022
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1/10

A film worthless in terms of content

The actors in this film play very artificially. I wonder how this film was awarded!
  • poltv
  • Aug 28, 2021
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1/10

The worst Iranian movie I've ever seen so far !

  • silva_e_souza
  • Jun 24, 2020
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