Millions (2004)

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Britain is switching from Pounds to Euros. A gang of thieves rob a train loaded with the old money to be incinerated. One of the bags of money falls into Damian (Alex Etel)'s playhouse. He's obsessed with religious saints and has fantasies. He's moved into a new house with his older brother Anthony and father after the death of his mother. Then a creepy man (Christopher Fulford) comes looking for the money.I love the fantastical style that Danny Boyle puts into this. It's backed up by a heart warming story and a very cute Alex Etel. The boy's innocence is adorable and heartbreaking. The saints are such a wonderful and unusual touch. It's a family movie that doesn't play down to the kids. It is funny and packed with interesting ideas.

thought that this was a great human feel good story. those two little boys did a remarkable job with it, the story goes like this,, a boy playing outside his house happens to get lucky when a bag is tossed out of a train,, unbeknownst to him at first it has over a quarter million pounds in it, well at first he doesn't know what to do with it, so he shows it to his older brother, then they come up with a few ideas for the money, one being to give away some of the money to the poor.. along the way the meet several characters,, "saints" , like Francis of Assisi, and so on and so forth, you see their mother is dead so they are really trying to find their mother, but as the movie goes on having all of this money leads to chaos and more problems for the boys, as they start getting people following them and pretending to be their friends,, soon they realize that having all of this money does more harm than good,, all in all i liked this movie very much,, i was surprised to find out that Danny Boyle from 28 days later had directed this one,, congratulations Danny on a job well done.

This movie is very motivated. Very touchy. This movie is kind of movie that I will show to my children someday. My children have to see this movie. Very inspiring, very touchy, very interesting. This movie will soar your heart and imagination.The boys who play Damian and Anthony are brilliant. The will be a good actor someday.Anthony is more reasonable than Damian. Damian is full fantasy, same with us, when we were kid.This movie talk about 2 boys, brother, live with their father. They move to other town, after their mother died. Damian is a lot more weird than his brother. someday Damian found a bag full of money at his playhouse. Then he tells his brother and together they keep the money under his brother's bed.Excellent movie from Danny Boyle. Danny Boyle is one of my favorite director.

I found myself rather moved by this movie, although I felt I'd been half bullied into it. It's a remarkable film about the value of things. The grand concept is rather like Brewster's Millions for a saintly child: the character of the film is one in which Danny Boyle has run with this literally. Frenetic and flashy, the story is told largely from a child's perspective, complete with overlapping memory, magic real- and sur-realism, lots of colour and a generally breezy way of relating even the most frightening or upsetting episodes. I like it, although it does feel like one is watching a cyclical commercial.The acting's OK - may favourite is Lewis McGibbon who plays Anthony, the brother of the principal, Damian. It's tough to be hard of the cast given the aesthetic that Boyle has created for them to work in which can often be like supercharged Hollyoaks. Yet, as I say, I was touched by the sentimental, worthily naive message at the end of it all. This is because for all Boyle's light touch he's not neglecting the story at all. A super Christmas flick for the family to gather round. 6/10