13 out of 14 people found the following review helpful:

Ahead of its Time

Roo the Pikeman from Colchester England, 4th February, 2006

I saw this film 20 odd years ago and have been trying to identify it ever since. It was well worth the wait. It should appeal to anyone interested in WW2, sci/fi, great story lines or films that aren't run of the mill hollywood rubbish. I gave it 5/5 because the few gaps in the special effects would not have been noticed 34 years ago when it was made. Simply ahead of its time.

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7 out of 7 people found the following review helpful:

No disappointment

A Customer from London, 14th August, 2005

I was worried about translating Kurt Vonnegut to film, but it works. The melancholy and eerie feel to Slaughterhouse 5 is reproduced well in this story of time travel and dealing with the World War II atrocity of Dresden...

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Excellent movie

A Customer from London, England, 9th February, 2006

I'd not read the book, but nw I will. A good story, well told and well acted.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Cool Movie

A Customer from Preston, Lancs., 19th September, 2005

If you've read the book and enjoyed it, watch the movie, it will not be a disappointment.

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Not Bad

FuriousLaughter from , 22nd October, 2009

This film is ok but not stunning which really it should be given that it's based on Kurt Vonnegut's most celebrated novel. Althougth the film is well made and directed it's not particularly memorable. Really I would recomened that you skip the film and read Vonnegut's book instead.

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attenuated to its detriment

elwhistey from , 22nd September, 2009

I wanted to watch this film because I have read the book. If you were to do the same then you may have some sort of understanding of it. If not then you may well of thought that it was nothing more than spun out. I just thought that It did a poor job of telling the story that the book told. Also, I thought that the manner in which Tralfamadore was depicted just made it seem like there was never enough money available for the film to be made properly. If the film was really good though, then this would mean that the book would not be remembered for being as good as it is, for it is impossible to make a great film out of a truly great book.

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Boring

Mantter from , 9th March, 2009

I watched this film with very little knowledge of what it was about, apart from having something to do with bombing in Dresden in WWII and that it was based on a book by Kurt Vonnegut. So indeed I was unsure what to expect. It seems to generally be placed in the Science Fiction category although the Sci-Fi element, I thought, was fairly minimal/subtle; not that there is anything wrong with that. However, this film was - for me of course - an utter bore. Like other reviewers I was tempted to turn it off and watch something worthwhile but I stuck it out and was not rewarded in the slightest. The actors were awful - amateurish, gormless and unattractive. I was not aware of any reason for the abduction of the main character by aliens, nor any meaning behind it either. It was visually boring and the sexual element was embarrassingly tame. The characters were all really corny and unbelievable, especially the Italian American guy who becomes his nemesis for practically no reason at all, other than he wants to be. One reviewer has described this film as 'intellectual' - I'd say it was more ineffectual. Oh I didn't. xx

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Sublime

hreserve from from BOLTON, 28th July, 2008

Vonnegut's outstandingly true philosophic book , coming as it does from his own P.O.W. internment in Dresden when it was bombed , is superbly realised in this film . The casual executions of the prisoners by the SS , the harsh treatment of the Red Army prisoners in contrast to the the concert party put on by the English POWs combine to form the surreal background to Billy Pilgrim's mental odyssey as he recovers from a plane crash when he is a peacetime dentist. The wit and the horrors go side by side , Billy's nightmarish but true recollections alternate with his sci-fi fantasies , populated as they are with the lovely Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine).

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