Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

José Carlos Matos The "lesson" of the movie is good, but there are some production/direction flaws. Warning: spoilers incoming!Ben-X: he is a teenager who is constantly bullied at school. He suffers from some psychological disorder. The movie suggests it's autism, but doesn't actually give a final answer to what it is. Here starts the first problem - Ben is in a constant hypervigilance state, while seeming to have great mental abilities (like shown in a doctor's appointment where he can record in his memory dozens of characters by just looking at them), yet has hallucinations too (as seen in the end of the movie). So, the symptoms vary from some schizophrenia to autism, which is really weird. The production tried to give Ben a "mad man" look, which ended up with an overreacted character.The second biggest mistake I find, is the fact that Ben's parents actually encouraged him on feeding his hallucinations and living that lie (as you'll notice in the end of movie). I'm sorry my friend but if you have hallucinations on a regular base, there's something wrong with you. Since I've dealt with schizophrenic people, when the person gets to that point the behavior is seriously modified and the delusion and paranoia just mess up someone's life. Even without all the technical psychological stuff, encouraging someone to live a lie is not the end of a movie I was expecting.Third: I think they could have come up with a better "masterplan" than the one the movie presented (a awfully made false suicide). Suddenly he was getting better at that state of the movie and out of nothing, with a lot of minutes for the film to end, he decides to commit suicide (dead bodies or wounds are not displayed). I think no one actually believed he had died in that scene - that's the kind of non-occurring death I'm tired to see in American cinema and I was expecting something different to be honest. As the movie suggested, Ben-X would have good mental capacities so bringing some more elaborated suicide, or some other plan, would have been so much better.For last, the movie is about some serious issues like autism, discrimination, school bullying, etc. This movie could have had a much more serious environment, and specially a Ben who'd express more feelings other than non-stopping distrust, like anger, depression, etc.;)

runamokprods A study of a tortured teen with Asperberger'™s syndrome, Ben is bullied and mistreated by his peers, and since his divorced parents are pretty clueless, he retreats into an on line role- playing fantasy game, where he has won the heart of a female player. Greg Timmerman is is excellent in the lead, but also looks a little old for the role, which takes a little something away from the reality, and heartbreak of the film. Most of the supporting performances are very good as well. The film captures the trauma of adolescence, honestly and brutally.(possible mild semi-spoiler ahead!) But the documentary like interviews are ultimately setting us up for a twist ending that is both weirdly satisfying and a huge cheat and let down at the same time. It feels good, but makes all the raw emotion of the film up to that point feel a bit copped out on. None-the-less, there is some very inventive filmmaking here, and the film is rarely less than riveting. It just seems that, sadly, it adds up to less than the sum of its parts.

Jade Kurikoko I caught this on TV, and what got my attention was that it involved online gaming, since I'm a gamer, I stayed and watched it thinking it was a fantasy movie. At first I thought it was weird (well, it was different, but in a good way). This movie is beautiful, it has great soundtrack and the actor playing Ben is amazing. There have been many movies about Asperger's syndrome lately, but this gave us a whole new perspective of a boy living in Belgium, hiding behind an online game character. I would love to see it again, but it hasn't been on TV again and I can't find it in Mexico. This is one of my favorite movies lately, you have to watch it there are no words to really describe the feeling of watching it.

MovieGuy01 I thought that Ben X was an excellent film to watch. Ben is very different. He has Aspergers Syndrome, a form of autism, which makes him very different from other people. He plays his favourite online computer game Archlord all of the time, trying hard to train himself for the real world that he lives in. The hard world of a school is for him a daily kind of hell. As the horror of being a daily subject to bullying starts to get worse, Ben works out a plan. Then a girl called Scarlite comes into his life, the girl that he has met in his on-line game. I found this film to be an excellent movie, that includes a lot a senses of bullying, and violence towards Ben from the other children in his class. Recommended..