WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

harihar90 What begins as a walk-and-talk with two middle-aged strangers at its centre, then turns into something much, much more intriguing. The reason for the intrigue is not the plot itself, but rather (my conception of) the point that the film raises. Should we go along in the ride with characters exploring their (possibly faux?) lives in movies, or should we try to assign a truth value to their story within the world of the film - considering that the world of the film itself is not an 'original' but just a 'copy' in the first place? Is there any point in doing the former, and does art lose it's intrinsic value if we do the latter? Does art have any intrinsic value to lose at all in the first place?...At the hands of a great director and supported by a mercurial performance by Juliette Binoche, the movie should have been something incredible. But sadly, it falls short as the perseverance with which it raises its points about truth distracted me from staying emotionally involved with the characters as I couldn't help but feel that all the interactions were nothing but a play staged to make the film's point about art and truth. A finely-crafted academic exercise, with some intriguing ideas, that left me a bit cold at the end.

anordall This movie stands up to the greatest ones in movie history. It shows to the best what movie language is - a movie is made to be seen by you, the spectator, and the author gives you what he has in his mind, in a way that will seize your attention from beginning to end and, also, will please you, will make you think or even will make you feel uncomfortable. Light, sound, movement, all this is substance for creation. Everything, from the reflections of the old town's buildings on the car's windshield to the irrational mixing up of languages (he doesn't speak Italian, but suddenly is is speaking Italian!), serves to the purpose of building up a piece of fine art while telling a story - and what a story! She plays a joke on the old lady (an excellent actress) in the cafeteria but soon she and his recently-made friend are playing the same joke on themselves and they no longer know that they are half-strangers, they believe they have been married since long! He (un?)willingly becomes the "perfect copy" of her ex-husband and has to abide to his own theories that a copy will serve its purposes as well as the original. The movie will open a thousand new doors to your mind - if you agree to join the play!

sidhu-karna What is the plot? What is the purpose? What is the relation between the actors? Well as you watch the movie, one understand its an experience. It is just as enjoying the moment, and not worrying about what comes next. Because, next can be anything as the story on the surface does not appear to be logical. It raises too many questions and doesn't care to answer them. It starts being like "Before Sunrise". Charming leads, great dialogues, superb imagery. It deviates from there. Where as Before Sunrise is adventurous, "Certified Copy" is mysterious.The acting is top notch. Both the lead actors take us into the moment. As you see it, each moment has a different back story and the acting conveys it in a single expression. It's like you pause for a moment and then get the whole background of what it's meant.This is my second Kiarostami movie after "Like Someone in Love", and it is just as enjoyable as it.

palmiro It's no coincidence that Kiarostami chose Italy as his filming location (apart from an unobjectionable desire to spend some time in Tuscany): It's another replay of the themes of Pirandello, and, in particular, the ones we find in Pirandello's plays such as "Six Characters in Search of an Author,", "Cosi' e'(se vi pare)" ("That's the way it is--if you think so"), and "Il giuoco delle parti" ("The 'Let's play a role' Game"). In all of these works we get a vision of life which suggests that life itself is just one big game of role-switching, with all that that suggests about the illusiveness of reality. Nothing is as it seems, and we begin to suspect that it's a fruitless endeavor to seek out that "true" or "authentic" self which undergirds all the "certified copies" in play throughout our lives. And just as in Pirandello's plays, so too with Kiarostami we get the dramatic denouement: What is initially playful repartee gradually takes on the look of a high-stakes game and eventually careens wildly out of control.