Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

SnoopyStyle It's 1940 Castelcuto, Sicily. Mussolini has just declared war on France and Britain. Renato is a 12 year old boy. He gets a new bike and joins a group of local boy. They are obsessed with Nino's new wife Malèna Scordia (Monica Bellucci). He starts spying on her and having erotic dreams about her. Her husband dies in the war. In the town, the men are obsessed and the women are jealous. Rumors of affairs with married men lead to a court trial.If this is a story about Malèna, it could be something great. However, she's really more of an object and what a beautiful object she is. This is really a coming of age story about Renato. We're seeing Malèna through his eyes. In many ways, he has to be more compelling as a character played by a more charismatic actor. He needs to have friends to play with. He needs to have connections other than an imaginary one with Malèna. There has to more satisfying conversations. He's obsessed with a naked Monica Bellucci. Who isn't? That probably is worth some extra points somehow.

zetes Sicily, 1940. A teenage boy (Giuseppe Sulfaro) is initiated into manhood when his friends introduce him to the glories of Malena (Monica Belluci), the most beautiful woman in town. Sulfaro becomes obsessed, following her wherever she goes on his bike, and he even spies on her in her home. His obsession is not the only one, as much as he wishes and wants to believe it were - the whole town worships her. Every man wants to have her, and every woman is deeply jealous of that fact. And, man, does that make life hard for Malena - her husband is fighting the war in Africa, and the rumors are flying, making life nearly impossible. Sulfaro might see her as a sex object initially, but the more he observes the more he sympathizes. This film begins as an enjoyable comedy, but it grows deeply serious. The climax is one of the harshest, most potent sequences I've seen in a long while. One will recognize the nostalgic tone of the movie if you're familiar with Cinema Paradiso, but I think this is actually a stronger film. Excellent.

relmasian Malena is an excellent film if one realizes the camera is seeing the world through the eyes of 12 year old Renato. It is a bit cockeyed, however, if one assumes that the camera is showing the real world. For example, when Renato's father is asked to discipline his son, he is shown using futile, feminine-like slaps while threatening a beating. But this is Renato's view of his father and should not be taking as an actual depiction of the father.Understanding that what you see is Renato's take on the world and not the actual world is difficult. There is no narrative by Renato. Usually, the camera is not positioned where Renato is but observes his behavior from a distance. Often, there are scenes in which Renato is not even present. However, by the time Renato is shown rescuing Malena while parachuting in with a blazing gun, it should be obvious that camera is showing what is in Renato's mind, not an objective view of the world.Once it is understood, that we are seeing what Renato understands, the somewhat cuckoo behavior of Malena, the townspeople, officials, and others makes sense. Otherwise, as other reviewers have noted, the film is not a representative slice of life. However, it is a very good representation of what a horny adolescent might think

Milad KhKh The movie focused on a worthless boy who fell in so called «Love» with a worthless woman (((whose husband left her alone to go fight the meaningless war. Her husband cared for other people more than his own wife. He knew that his wife would become a whore someday if he leave her alone with those meaningless people without a non-deaf person and enough money.))) but it seems that Malena doesn't even know that that boy exists; The boy doesn't have the courage to tell her how bad he loves to f**k her soft white ass up, so the boy starts masturbating. Masturbating, masturbating and masturbating. «He» masturbated and «They» masturbated. Everyone masturbated!The boy's father finds his son having Malena's panties in his mouth, so he gets beaten up by his father!The boy's father finds out that his son's penis has grown longer and thicker, so he take him to a place full of bi**hes, where he can choose who to f**k!They tell Malena's father that your daughter is a whore; Her father says OK!Malena has no more money now. So she become a Whore! -As for the boy, still masturbating!Malena gets beaten up by those meaningless people in the public, so she leaves the town! Her father? Doesn't hear her! The boy? Watching his «LOVE!» gets beaten up. His reaction? Still watching... . Is he a true Lover? Of course!Malena is leaving the town - the boy? Watching...Her husband comes back to the town with only one hand (left one), looking for his wife, but his wife is gone now, so he go to find her and take a her back to where she was.The next film: Malena comes back to the town with his husband arm to arm, and starts a new life with him and with the best people she has ever faced!Result: Sucked.