Didn't like the annoying typewriter tapping, or the flashbacks, or anorexic Kiera Knightly, or how it dragged in the beginning. Didn't like their thick accents and didn't feel like reading subtitles. Didn't like the ending. The acting was very good as was the cinematography.

Acting was wonderful, scenery, setting, character development all stellar. However the message of the movie was more than just disappointing. Atonement as a title really misleads.

Baby Saoirse Ronan! Keira Knightley and James MacAvoy are heartbreaking as star-crossed Cecilia and Robbie. Amazing film.

Simply put, a Masterpiece...

Loved this movie

Inexpressibly sad, yet also surpassingly beautiful. Perhaps the best Keira Knightley ever, and I love Elizabeth Swann. Three actresses play the central character -- at different times in her life -- and all are superb (Romola Garai's interpretation of the "middle" Briony is flat-out brilliant). Atonement is a gripping, powerful film that you might not bear watching more than once.

One of the protagonists in this film transgresses and will have to live with it for the rest of her life. I suspect we all experience this and even if we confess and ask forgiveness, we have to carry the burden to our dying day. This tragic tale is based upon a highly awarded novel by Ian McEwan. While I have had the novel in my possession, I just never got around to reading it. I think that I will try the book one more time.

I guess you needed to read the book to appreciate the movie. And I highly recommend reading the book, because it was highly acclaimed, awarded, and the best book I had ever read up until recently. I had no idea how they would turn it into a movie, due to its narrative concepts, but they pulled it off. A good cast was to thank for the good acting. They left out a few parts I had hoped to see, but they weren't essential. I think they should have focused more on Briony, because that's who the book was really about, and what she did to this young couple.

I'm a little biased because of how good the book was, but what the book didn't have was an Oscar-winning music performance from Dario Marianelli. It got 6 other nominations, including Adapted Screenplay.

A lovely to look at, subtly twisty, cautionary tale to beware precocious dreamy teen-aged girls.. ..not to mention aristocrats, prison & the army.

I didn't like this movie, so I didn't watch all of it.