Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

epopnafets Promises much, delivers nothing. If there was a story to be told then this screenplay does not tell it. Terrible script, bad casting, an over-produced turd - AVOID!

love-sanne-love Where Scorsese's others films are rough, he totally shocked me with this lovely children's story. the images are outstanding. the combination of fiction and real history made me interested. that it's about film made me even more weak. the drama and the sad story made it watchable for older watchers, unlike much other children's movies out there. the boy was acting right in my heart. and it's also saying something about Scorsese directing to handle child actors in such a good way and make them so vulnerable on screen.

Mihai Toma Hugo, an orphan child living in some hidden tunnels in a train station gets into trouble while trying to fix a robot which may elucidate the mystery of his father's death. Meanwhile, he befriends the adopted daughter of a local toy repair store owner which has a couple of mysteries of his own. His adventure will prove to be more tangled than he expected as more and more clues and connections are revealed.It's an emotional and dramatic story which follows an ingenious little boy and his everyday struggles. His adventures are presented in style, in a very atmospheric place, the train station. It has soul, it looks great and it has some very good actors. You get eager to find out what will happen to Hugo right from the beginning which creates some sort of a bond, a great feeling. The finale is as surprising and satisfying as it is unexpected. The mystery surrounding his father's past, together with the one from the repair shop owner will definitely prove worthwhile. A very good movie, no doubt about it.

cinemajesty Film Review: "Hugo" (2011)Honored with Eleven Academy Award Nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director in regard to Martin Scorsese, who reinvented himself with this film by giving in to deeper emotion and empathy without being sentimental as the one Director of his generation as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and further Oliver Stone and David Lynch, who divided the emerging so called "New Hollywood" under themselves until it became clear at the beginning of this decade that cinema turns entirely digital by 2020.Director Martin Scorsese proves with "Hugo" that the magic shall be alive even in a realm of full digitization as this picture, even additionally supported by a Fusion 3D camera system under supervision of Academy-Award-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson, who stabilizes the director's vision translated from screenplay writing by John Logan, which misses no beats for motion picture entertainment on the highest level, where every shot had been carefully considered to be part of a 2-hour editorial by Thelma Schoonmaker that leaves no wishes open for audience members of any age."Hugo" surprisingly made its way through the years to be a pitch perfect example of how to use technology in times of confusions to make it a part of a creative process to come further out the restraint looks of lock-up-tables that no one seems to care anymore how color transcends in the viewer's eye to be the primary indicator of a visual perception. Here comes it all together, the highest budget given to Director Martin Scorsese managed by Producer Graham King and further passionate film supporters as actor Johnny Depp himself, sharing-in with an investment from selfly-owned production company Infinitum Nihil earned from the most expensive picture of them all "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011) in order to create the ultimate picture on the process of desperation in making films.Then later at the Oscars on February 26th 2012, it became clear from whispers through the ranks that again no other Director worked harder by digesting the given source material as the book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick, to receive a ringing in one's auditorium guest's ear, when the time came to hand-over the Best Director Award for an still retrospectively speaking, the most engaging year of a decade at the movies.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)