77 minutes I'll never get back
582607
I love time travel stories/movies but this was awful.  My friend and I sat through this and didn't understand it. Then we read the wikipedia page and we still barely understood it.  Too esoteric.
2134291
I wish I could get back the 20 minutes I spent trying to watch this. Maudlin, voyeuristic trash. You will need at least three hours of therapy to recover from watching it.
2207674
I wish I had these 90 minutes of my life back-one of the worst movies I have ever seen the plot makes no sense whatsoever, or should I say no plot whatsoever.
4500216
The dental assistant asked me if I wanted to continue with the procedure and I mumbled "Yes" as they proceeded to take out the other two wisdom teeth in what amounted to a two and half hour surgery.  The pain afterwards was akin to having metal screws drilled into my skull.  I would willingly relive that pain again before I see Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life for a second time.

Five minutes into this movie, I wanted to shoot the director.  The whispered dialogue doesn't establish any of the characters and yields a story that has to be guessed at.  Then there's a 30-minute "2001: A Space Odyssey" drug sequence that shows beautiful images and concludes with dinosaurs before going back to the Texas home of the characters introduced earlier.  At this point, I was already asleep.  I contend that The Tree of Life robs one of one's pranic life energy.  It has beautiful cinematography but no payoff, nothing to justify the journey.

My review is actually minus 1 star.  Yes, I'm giving The Tree of Life a negative star, a black hole, someplace in which to throw this piece of garbage. Mr. Malick, you steal two and half hours out of my life and I'll get even with you.

Finally, what does "Tree of Life" have to do with this movie anyway?  And why would anyone within a two hundred billion light-year distance of Earth even give a damn?
1732508
Couldn't  finish watching this, it kept going to loading every 3 minutes
1769455
As other reviewers have mentioned, it is very rare that I will actually turn off a bad movie rather than watch any more of it.  American Breakdown was a movie I made an exception for.  I didn't even bother fast forwarding any further to see if it would get bettter, I just knew it wouldn't.  Every minute longer that I watched it made me feel like more of a sucker for getting taken by RedBox and the fraud they pull off with movies like this. Start-studded cast, glitzy cover and complete garbage under the covers.  I want to like you Red Box but this is beneath you.
400761
After about 15 minutes I couldn't take the ice age pace of this glacial movie. What a colossal waste of a great cast (although for the life of me Rachel MacAdams could be Elizabeth Banks as they are so identikit to be scary...this movie has MacAdams in case you can't tell your blonde dye jobs without a program).

I was fast-forwarding it and it didn't get any better. Even the stylish look of the movie did nothing for me. Maybe in this "Mad Men" era I demand a bit more of the whole suppressed society in suits and women in the kitchen stereotypes.

Whatever the case I apologize for not giving this a more in-depth critique but I thought I'd warn others who have my levels of patience for pace in a movie.
4414504
Do something else with 2 hrs, please. The only type of individual I could see enjoying this is one of those sad, pathetic atheists who seems obsessed with hating Christians. They would love the crosses posted everywhere at the homestead where the disgusting, incestuous preacher and his miserable family live. The whole film seemed like it fell out of some silly, angry 18 year olds head. I wish I could think of at least one worthwhile element of the train wreck, but it's just not there.
2467566
Horrible movie. If i wanted to watch scenes that were 2 minutes long of just somebody staring at a wall every 5 minutes for the entire length, i would go insane. Could only watch 30 minutes of this movie
4457499
We made it about an hour and 15 minutes in and couldn't take it any longer. There were 3 of us watching and no one is impressed. I'll update if I decide to ever give it another try.
2969815
This movie was so bad we finally turned it off, thus the 60 minutes lost rather than 107. And I dig John Cusack movies. Bummer.
4276941
When my daughter was three years old, she slipped out of our house during the early morning bustle and wandered into to our neighbor's downstairs playroom, where she fell asleep on a couch.  I think it took me about 15 minutes before I realized she was nowhere in our house, and missing.  After frantic phone calls to the neighbors (including the people on whose couch she was asleep - and who weren't aware she was in their downstairs), checking the creek behind my house, the neighbors' pools, and combing the neighborhood, my husband and I called the police.  During the 45 further minutes it took to find her - the worst and most frightening hour of my life - I can truthfully say that sex never entered my mind once.  In fact, had my husband even suggested a romantic interlude during the time my child was missing, I am pretty sure I would have decked him!  I can't imagine any mother would do otherwise.

Thus, while I wanted to like this book, and it was in fact well-written, I just couldn't suspend disbelief enough to buy into a mother of a stolen child child being so shallow and self-centered that sex on a kitchen table would even enter into the realm of possibility.  Maybe it's just me, but I simply couldn't get past Isabelle's poor pitiful/it's all about me.  Plus, George was kind of a bore.
1917779
The whole 1hr and 36 mins of this movie was of this guy in a box. No scenes outside of the box, I watched 10 mins and was bored to death. Fast forwarded thru the rest and the whole movie is of him in the box. If you are trying to fall asleep this is the movie for you. If you want a good movie don't bother
4937478
I decided to watch Under the Skin while my 2nd computer was doing a full system scan. During the course of enduring the beginning of this tedious movie, I found myself being more entertained by Norton System Scan, Than I could ever hope to be by, Under the Skin. First 9 minutes, is an annoying sound effect that seems to last an eternity. No dialog to speak of till 13 minutes in. I lasted to 21 minutes. And even skipping ahead made it no better.
3104694
I wish I could get the hour and 23 minutes of my life back that I wasted on this. I am a huge fan of Mandy Patinkin and Aaron Paul, but I feel worse for them because of the months of there lives they will not get back that they spent on this. This is the kind of film that makes people have a bad opinion about indie films.
954905
It was the worse 1 1/2 hour of my life I can't get back! I am so not picky when it comes to movies but this was the worse! Don't do it!
4835251
2 hours of my life I can never get back.  They never should have made this movie.  1,2 and 3 were great.  That should have been it.