Leila (2011) User Reviews

OK drama, great performances

[Jaspa1982 · 6/10 · 8 January 2019]

A strange film that seems to take a turn into a different genre at the end. It starts off as a solid drama and becomes what is really a straight forward and rather ho-hum attempt at a thriller. However before that happens, the story is slow but compelling, thanks to the brilliant performances of the two leads Lee Boardman and Chloë Annett. The slow pace is not for everyone but this gives us a chance to get to know the characters. A good way to make us care for them, but we need to care about what is happening to them later and that's where the film stumbles for me.

Good thoughtful movie

[wmusiwa · 6/10 · 22 January 2018]

I believe the guy was guilty in this case for not showing enough compassion towards his wife, and drowning in his own paranoia!

Dull Slow Burning Melodrama

[michael-daniels-84521 · 1/10 · 27 March 2018]

This film is so utterly boring, soporific and so ponderously slow that you will have the intense desire to speed up the running speed. Nothing, and I mean nothing, happens in this movie, other than at the end and even then it is so totally unjustifiable as to be meaningless! The only redemption at this point is that this farcical drama is finally over! The most interesting feature of the entire movie - and in fact the star of the movie - is the spider that can be seen from time to time in the corner of a room, or crawling up the wall. It makes a welcome break form the boredom and livens up the action!

good, great performances

[dandanger · 9/10 · 11 May 2020]

The spider continued to appear throughout the movie - the point was to for us to understand who had really done the real damage - one point I noticed In the trailer the phone message her husband found said "Can't wait to touch you.." and in the same scene in the film,the message said "Can't wait to get in touch with you". The film itself was supposed to be about mistakes (in what you see or find) but the mistakes were not his. And Leila gave us all the hints that she was lying, pulling away from her husband every time he tried to make love to her and spending the rest of the night with her daughter. Her anger with him win anything disappeared sealed it all. It was somewhat confusing that she broke down and cried when learned that her husband had found the camera and viewed the film of her betrayal. It didn't help that there was no explanation of what happened where or when that led to her betrayal of her family.