Load of rubbish!!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Once is an amateurish little music/romance film, but touching nevertheless.I like Glen Hansard's type of sound, like that of the one and only "David Gray." It really carries the film, as many of the other aspects aren't explored and are underwritten. It's a very a clever way of marketing yourself in today's world. He has also had some acting experience in the 1991 film "The Commitments," which I also liked. I don't really understand Marketa's character's choice at the end, as she looks out the window. Overall it is a little light on substance, but I liked it.

Rotten Tomatoes gave this a 97% rating which is why I watched this film. It was one of the slowest, go nowhere movies I have ever seen. A total waste of 90 minutes. There is some chemistry between the male and female lead but it, like the movie as a whole, goes absolutely nowhere! Don't waste any of your time watching this trash...Also, the music isn't any good either...

Once takes you to the 'ONE' beautiful journey of two people who come from different background,with different past yet a common love for music. The movie will build up slowly,but in no time will push you back to your seat by some very refreshing acting from the lead cast. The movie is bound to leave you with moments that you can't forget and music that will forever cherish you. Definitely one to look for.The best low budget,not so known cast film I have seen till know.

Two singer-song writers get to know each other in Dublin. Once you get used to their accents, there is absolutely nothing interesting about either one of them. They seem to write the same song over and over again with the same four-note motif played and sung over and over again. All the fuss and all the awards given this film are prime examples of people bending over backwards to valorize all foreign, indie films over "slick Hollywood" movies. This is my considered opinion as I've watched the film twice now . . . actually one and a half times as I got so bored with the low-key acting and the gratingly repetitious sound track the first time that I only made it about half- way through before giving up. Their tedious songs are touted as brilliant within the film, but I just can't buy into it; the songs are meh and then meh and then more meh. Garsh! They don't even end up together so there isn't even the pallid solace of a true romance.