Fish Tank

The only person who seems to understand the angry teen is mom's new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender of Hunger), though their friendship oscillates between intimate and vaguely creepy.

The contradictions of adolescence have rarely been conveyed with such authenticity and force.

Fish Tank isn't an easy watch – it's like two hours of ache – but there are rich rewards to be had in the many ways Arnold and her terrific team rend us to and fro.

A brilliantly acted and achingly bleak coming-of-age story.

The film belongs to Jarvis, however, and she makes the most of it with expressive features that convey Mia's mixed-up emotions from raging temper to sweet vulnerability. She will go far.

Fish Tank is grim, to be sure, but it leaves us with a feeling of hopefulness.

A grimy kitchen-sink melodrama with an Ajax cleanser script: The muck is all surface, the turmoil cleanly shallow and contrived, though never less than gripping.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The British film Fish Tank is a rare movie-going experience, in that we the viewer move from simple voyeurs to the feeling that we are participating in the story to, finally, the feeling that we are the main character, somehow trapped in the same existence and the same feelings of hopelessness and despair that permeate her life. The her I refer to is Mia (Katie Jarvis), a 15 year old teen living a pretty lousy life in Essex with her little sister Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths) and her single, party-going mother (Kierston Wareing). The three of them co-exist in a flat that is always dirty and they speak to each other with no hint that they are a family â

An interesting but excessive portrait of an isolated 15-year-old girl who only seems to be looking for problem after problem without really finding a reason that feels not only rational but more edifying. It's absolutely understandable that a teenager would act in such an impulsive way, but Fish Tank goes so far as to make me say. Enough. This is mostly because the main character is a mix of cliches waiting to explode. From being shown as weirdo, an outcast with no friends. She doesn't study, she lives in a disastrous home where she, her sister and her mother can only communicate with screams. Her mother is in a relationship with a dude who evidently ends up abusing her trust and loneliness to end up having sex with her despite being a minor. Like I said, it's a mix of a lot of cliches that come to feel disproportionate. That's not to say the film doesn't have its merits, especially in terms of acting and how its director Andrea Arnold manages to sustain its plot by keeping you focused on the lead character, because after all, everything we see on screen is through her and only her. I had different expectations of Fish Tank because it was considered a great movie, but to me it didn't seem like anything out of the ordinary, but it's a long way from being called a bad one.

exact opposite of a porn.....shows how sex is poor and terrible for young girls...i found the kicking little girl to be strangely offputting as well as the poorness of the **** fassbend just fizzles after he **** to say that I didn't want more in the movie would be a lie.....i don't really enjoy following people around especially when so poor but its ture that you get to be this **** little girl and you dont feel that shes really **** except for the kicking **** fact that its called fish tank made me wonder if fassbender had other moments in his life that were similar to the fish river scene....once again a movie solely about the attractiveness of the **** that I **** One and Two is the same..also it could be just how fassbender is a robot who is also only there to be **** all the sudden its ok to bang a fifteenyearold in a movie ....lol again not that I **** horse Idea and kid who doesn't get banged is heartwarming but **** how she cries there but headbutts in beginning....this might be my best **** far as being more tolerable than honey and all those other **** actually better then 4 when that is taken in to **** hard to tell but yeah this doesn't fully seem British ...not that I care

two girls, that haven't any clue what they're doing. One, a mother, the other, a daughter, and a guy that's a rapist, who also has no clue what he's doing... Are undelightfully brought together by a writer, that also doesn't know what he's doing. Exciting plot elements like ****, and child abuse, are about to ensue in this otherwise plot-less movie. If you didn't want to see anything of substance, you've made a good choice having this movie in your queue! Enjoy!!!