Heaven (2002) Critic Reviews

Unusual, unexpected and strangely refreshing. For this movie to have resorted to a familiar action-flick finish with everything explained, pressed and dry-cleaned would have rendered it banal.Read the full review

Here the clinical, stopwatch precision of Mr. Tykwer's explorations of synchronicity and Kieslowski's warmer, metaphysically dreamy speculations about the role of chance and coincidence in human affairs synchronize into a film whose formal elegance is matched by its depth of feeling.Read the full review

Mr. Tykwer's hands the movie changes almost magically from drama to chase to romance. As it does so its moral weight lessens; by the end there is less than what first engaged the mind. What meets the eye, though, is unforgettable.Read the full review

It's maddeningly chowderheaded, simplistic, pretentious, and not a little silly. You can't take your eyes off it.Read the full review

Poetic in its sadness, and Blanchett's performance confirms her power once again.Read the full review

A mystical tale of two souls, joined in love but divided in society, seeking redemption and understanding before they pass to another plane.Read the full review

Heaven's tone is all wrong. The movie tries to be ethereal, but ends up seeming goofy.Read the full review

Sports a lustrous performance by Cate Blanchett that gives the movie much of its final sheen but still can't keep it on the rails as the already flimsy story starts to disintegrate in the final act.Read the full review

With Heaven, Tykwer completes his self-appointment as Kieslowski's heir apparent, but since he has always been a better filmmaker than a thinker, his ideas drift into the ether.Read the full review