Life of Pi

"The Life of Pi" is a film that I had been putting off for a while, but in the end, I managed to get to it and I don't regret it at all. I was afraid of how it would turn out, what the film would actually be about, that it would be quite boring, a struggle for life on a boat with a tiger, it just didn't seem like something that would impact me, but one should never judge a book by its cover. In this case, it definitely held true and I am really glad that my girlfriend and I didn't miss this film. Ang Lee is a director who can always surprise, both in a positive sense and unfortunately in a negative sense - see "Hulk". More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2013/02/pi-jeho-zivot-2012-85.html (2013-03-22)

I rate this movie five stars for one simple reason. I liked it mostly because it is able to stay on top of all the big religions of the world. It’s kind of a big philosophical view on humans and animals and the world around them. It was really nice to watch and it was even nicer to experience it with Pi, as he was played by a great actor and Ang Lee as an incredibly likeable director added a beautiful, positive and unique atmosphere full of original ideas that you simply have to appreciate. (2013-05-13)

It’s way too digital. The constant special effects annoyed and disturbed me all the time except for the perfect tiger, as did the camera, and the story seemed to me to just be ordinary. I couldn't worry about the main character during his journey (why should I, when we see him older, whole, alive and healthy at the beginning, right?)... I can't deny the visual impact of the scenes with the sky reflecting in the endless water surface, and I quite liked the interlude with the school of flying fish, but why did everything have to be so kitschy neon and digi-hallucinogenic? Moreover, the music (yes, the Oscar-winning one) is completely bland. Two stars would be too many. (2013-03-09)

Two stars are quite a decent result for a film that I didn't enjoy at all. Ang Lee approached the laws of physics his way, relied on CGI and made a film about high moral values, with no chance of appealing to me (a shallow individual). The film is technically distinguished, but its story left me cold. (2020-06-01)

Similar to What Dreams May Come, visually captivating, technically precise, and an essentially empty film outlining religion, family cohesion, and survival adventure. But it’s so tedious that even though the form is self-indulgently mesmerizing, it’s not entertaining. Ang Lee leaned too heavily into the camera and and the visual effects at the expense of everything else, and there’s no originality, let alone this being the film of the year. (2015-08-14)