Review of Life of Pi (2012) by Le Cochon B — 18 Jan 2015

I've put up with so many hyped big studio or big release films in the last 5 years or so, hailed by serious critics as good or great films. The truth is, I think, much less than 5% of these films were even really watchable to good and so very few were great.

I came late to "Life of Pi" because I was very suspicious. Even this week, as I started to play the HD version on the TV at home something made me wonder if this was to be much worse than I had even expected, and I had expected it to be a piece of over-hyped part mediocrity at best.

How wrong I was!!! Oh thank God, thank God. Relief is just steaming from my pores.

What a great film. I haven't seen a better made film for so many years.

The plot is just one of the best, the concept makes it one of the best films ever made - but Life of Pi may surely be within one of the top three best films ever produced for its ability to take the idea and script and make the most wonderful piece of cinematic theatre from it.

It's just simply sublime. Here is one of the very few best films ever made.

Literally, it's really, really wonderful. And so intelligent, with that - how often do we get genuinely intelligent films with a great deal of effort behind that intelligence?

Life of Pi is a really rare entity. I almost woke up today thinking there is a world of film - it's that good and convince you you were deluding throughout the last 10 years of 95% mediocre films (and 5% not too good either, mostly).

However much I don't want to be relative in describing or meriting this amazing film, the fact remains that it's such an incredible rarety in film.