Maybe I'm biased because of my adoration for Michelle Williams, but I've been able to pick out her not so great performances without feeling bad in the past. This was the best I've ever seen her.Perhaps if you've never really experienced a terrible loss it could be outside of your comfort zone, maybe thats the reason for the long winded pick-aparts. I've never lost a child, but I've lost some very dear people and watched both my mother and step mother deal with the loss of children. This was a beautifully honest and raw depiction of the turmoil one goes through. The self blame, the need to fill the hole left behind, snapping completely, and then finally finding joy amongst the rubble.I also must point out that Michelle's accent was incredible. Its been hard in some of her films to remove her from "Jen Lindley" of her Dawson's Creek days because her voice is so familiar to me. In this film she was completely the character and without a single reminder of Jen. That is a huge feat in the eyes of a Dawson's Creek obsessive like myself.

I just rented this yesterday without knowing anything about it beforehand. I sincerely think that it is an awfully bad film. I read a few of the reviews posted and cannot agree with the reviewers that say that if you don't like this movie you are either "an idiot, a zombie or who someone who likes action films and (evidently in their opinion) cannot understand anything else". If we are here to discuss (or comment) about movies let's just do so. Here are my plus points: good acting all around, good photography. Here are my minus points: 1) Unnecessarily complicated storyline. If you take away the Ewan McGregor character and the affair with the policeman, the story, which regards a woman losing her husband and child in a terrorist attack in London, would still stand-up and probably have been more focused. Did they need to make the movie longer just to reach 90mins? 2) Some characters are not believable. How does Ewan McGregor get to own an Aston Martin etc? Someone commented "who cares about the car". I wouldn't care but in films, if you have something that doesn't fit-in with the character it makes you think that maybe there is a reason for it then you start thinking what that reason could it be and, will running after butterflies, you lose focus on the principal storyline which I think is the drama of a woman losing her child in a bomb attack and everything else that goes with it.. Given that for some reason this character had to be in the film, if he had a Ford (for example) I think it would have been much better. By the way, for once I think that the Italian title is much more apt: translated it means "without apparent reason" which I believe answers the question of why this film was made.

This movie so wants to be an epic drama about the failure of terrorism to stifle the human spirit in the face of mankind's determination to ... uh ... have more babies and ... uh, make uplifting music and, uh .... babies' cries drown out hate and ... uh ....I don't want to mock this well intentioned movie too much. For one thing, Michelle Williams delivers a ferocious performance as a wife and mother whose grief will not be denied.Williams is simply "young mother." She has a boy toddler and a husband on the police bomb squad who comes home exhausted every night and falls asleep in front of the TV watching his soccer team, Arsenal. One night, she tucks hubby in on the couch and goes down to the local pub. There, she meets a reporter and they click. She is sex starved. They have sex.Next day, hubby takes the boy to the stadium for an Arsenal game, giving "young mother" an opportunity for another liaison with reporter. The two liaise, and are well into sex with the TV on the Arsenal game when a terrorist bomb explodes in the stadium, killing thousands, including her husband and boy.She races to the scene. Debris falls on top of her. She wakes up in the hospital covered in lacerations. As she heals, and gets out of the hospital, she goes on a quest. She is consumed with rage and guilt.This is an incredibly good scenario to begin a movie and it has a powerful actress to carry it forward, but somewhere along the way it decides it does not want to be a thriller or a melodrama or even a conventional drama, but an inspirational Hallmarkian story about the triumph of love.OK, maybe the cries of a newborn English baby will drown out the rants of mad dog jihadists. Or, perhaps, political issues are involved. Hmmm.

Quite a surprise, topical clever and compulsive viewing. This film did run true to life in many ways, the characters are easy to identify with. The housewife sexually unsatisfied by her husband who apparently arrives home from a very stressful job of work and immediately falls asleep. The impression being that this is a regular occurrence. I was a bit puzzled though by the facial damage on a person who had'nt been to the match. Much of this film required intelligent imagination as it did'nt waste its time filling in what they thought was unnecessary detail. I'm sure many of those involved in terrorist incidents in London over the past 30 odd years will identify with one character or another.It's a pity it has'nt gained the popularity it deserves now being released to TV only a year after production. Some very good acting by the 2 lead parts.