12 years to make one of the most boring flims in existence, the plot was really stale,Ellar Coltrane should had used all these 12 years to take acting classes, I know the movie was going to be bad once I saw Ethan Hawks face. The entire time I saw his Performance I was falling asleep, Great value Christian Bale serves us nothing on the platter

I liked this style of movie making where you literally see the same boy and others growing up for the next twelve years. Yes this does have a tendency of being boring but if we look back into the last 12 years of our lives, I'm sure you will see a lot of boring moments and maybe some moments extremely dull. That's the way life is I guess.

My Movie Rating: 8 / 10

There is no doubt that this film gets pretty dull. The problem is that the narrative revolves not so much around Mason (Ellar Coltrane) as around the adults - Mason's somewhat hippyish parents and particularly his mother's terrible choices of partner. Indeed, what is surprising is how little we learn in the first half of the film about Mason himself - what makes him tick, how he sees the world. The film samples events in his life - such as his getting a severe haircut at the hands of his mother's latest beau - but these pieces are too fragmentary to add up to a portrait. There is therefore no psychological development, just a series of events in his external life involving his parents and (later on) his sometime girlfriends, in what appears a somewhat privileged, if disordered, upbringing. He seems to go from lacklustre child to boring young adult via uncommunicative emo, and at no point do we actually care about him in the slightest.

I will admit that on the technical side the film is very good. It is put together remarkably well and Mason's (and his sister's) growing up is almost seamless. And the adult actors are all superb. But since this film is not really about its nominal protagonist but about the people around him, it isn't in fact about 'boyhood' at all. A disappointment.

My Movie Rating: 3 / 10

Good movie, but after 1 hour I started feel bored.

My Movie Rating: 7 / 10