Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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

Sinclair Thomas This is my first review on a movie here, and I'll tell you why..Candy was a movie I struggled to watch at times, not because of the pacing, but because Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish brought an uncanny dimension of realism to create this story of two drug addicts that live for each other and the conflicting addiction that fuels their abusive relationship.There was a particular hospital scene that had me straining in my chair.. the performance by these two is hard to put in words. Just a truly phenomenal screen presence. Far from a light-hearted film I recommend this to anyone who wants to confront the reality of drug use and the repercussions they have on your life and those around you.Haunting and just belligerent at its core. Cinema perfected.

SnoopyStyle Poetic Dan (Heath Ledger) is in love with painter Candy (Abbie Cornish) and candy of the heroin kind. Casper (Geoffrey Rush) is their drug mentor. The couple falls deeper and deeper under the influence of drugs. They borrow money, steal and get married. They get into prostitution. They try and fail to get clean. All the while, their world continues to fall apart.These are two beautiful people in a dreamy drug haze. The whole movie is filled with a haze. The couple is a pair of whiners who won't let the audience root for them. There is a lack of intensity. There isn't much drama since their slide down is pretty standard. Ledger and Cornish show flashes of intensity but are generally a muddle. The style isn't as good as other drug movies. There are moments of good drama but their story rambles on and on rather than reach a climax. I would recommend 'Requiem for a Dream' instead.

Alex Deleon Viewed at Berlin, February. 14, 2006 Heath Ledger Rides Again -- The big conference of the day came at the six-thirty mark, after a press screening of "Candy" which features "Brokeback Mountain" star Heath Ledger. Needless to say, Heath being one of the hottest actors around today, everybody here was anxious to get a look at him close-up, and were certainly not disappointed as the young Australian actor was most forthcoming and open in response to the questions fired at him from all sides of the room. In the current picture Heath plays a rather hopeless heroin addict who falls in love with a very beautiful young lady who marries him and also, into the bargain, picks up his smack habit. Before long she (the "Candy" of the title) is working as a fifty dollar a shot prostitute to finance the couple's collective need for the drug. Pert blonde actress Abbie Cornish is a real find and actually steals the show (more or less) from top -billed Ledger.This fetching gal looks something like a cross between CharlizeTheron and Scarlett Johanssen, and besides her astounding good looks, can also act! The entire "Candy" team was on hand, including the two stars, director Neil Armfield, the writer of the novel on which the screenplay was based, the screenwriter, and a couple of producers. Only Geoffrey Rush, who was the main supporting actor, (as an addicted professor of biology) was absent.Considering that "Candy" is pretty much a straight-forward story of drug addiction and how it ruins young lives, I found it rather depressing with nothing new to say on the subject. Heath Ledger really doesn't have that much to do in the pic other than look pained most of the time with that now patented "Brokeback Mountain" look of deeply suppressed anguish, In this film, however, the pain is not so suppressed as Heath breaks out into tears on several occasions. One of the cute questions from the audience was "How do you manage to cry so easily on cue?" — shrug — <<"It's part of the job.>> In person Heath Ledger does not come across with the aura of a Movie Star, but rather as a good old boy who enjoys his job — acting — and does it pretty damn well. One droll question from an Asian lady in the audience -- obvious but inevitable -- was "does it feel very different to kiss a man (as in Brokeback Mountain) and to kiss a woman, as in this film?" Heath elected to take the question seriously and went on at length about his role in the Ang Lee "gay cowboy" picture, concluding that, once you get over the initial embarrassment, "It's just a case of kissing another human being, the main difference coming down to the stubble" — which brought a roar of appreciation.

Sophia Kodjamanova "Candy" is one of these movies which left you so much to think about. While I was watching the movie mixed emotions went though me. Such like joy, delight, melancholy, disgust, sadness and sympathy. There are so realistic and horrific scenes and at the same time so beautiful and catching moments. The opening scene is one of the most beautiful things made in art of the cinema. The music, the deep and rich voice of gorgeous Heath Ledger, all the words with which he is describing the great love. The big love that raises you to heaven. And so the first stage of drug addicts is like heaven. They don't think for the consequences or the risks, not even about their heath and the people who they can hurt. All about they care about is the pleasure which they feel. The unconditional love and the heroin are blinded Dan and Candy and they don't feel how turn their direction to the ground very speedily. The hit of the realistic life on earth overturn their minds, all the sweetness and love are gone. Here they are two young persons, talented and artistic in nature, confronted to face their nude or what they've become. The most sad and hard moment for me was when Dan saw the writings on the wall by Candy about their life story. Somehow when I listen to the words and review all the story I wish I experience that kind of love, unconditional, twisting everything inside you and make you do everything about a person, who sometimes you love and sometimes you hate for being so deep inside of you. I adore the movie, so realistic and terrific, shows how drugs can ruin a human's life. Heath is wonderful, charming and gets really into the role, like always. Love him. R.I.P