Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

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

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Michael_Elliott La sortie des usines Lumière (1895)Historic early film from Louis Lumiere clocks in at just around a minute but it's certainly one of the greatest achievements in the history of cinema. If you just pulled someone off the street today and showed them this film, I doubt they'd be all that impressed with it but film buffs will know its importance. I can only imagine what it must have been like back in 1895 when the Lumiere brothers showed this thing to an unsuspecting crowd who never imagined that there would be moving images on a screen. The film is pretty simple as a large gate is opened and then we see people leaving a factory. Even outside the historic importance of this film there are other interesting aspects including being able to see what people were dressed like in 1895. Yes, you could always watch a movie made today that is set in those times but it just wouldn't be the same. Being able to see real people leaving their work just has something special to it. Can you imagine what these people would think if they knew over a hundred years later someone would be watching this footage still?

Jackson Booth-Millard The Lumiére Brothers from France are often credited as the ones who made the first ever motion picture, and this is often referred to as the first ever motion picture seen by cinema audiences. It is a less than one minute single shot of the hundreds of men and women, mostly women, leaving the Lumiére filmmaking factory after a day's work. It is simply seen these days as the revolution of filmmaking, but it is a question, what would the world be like without films? This film gave way for the many other revolutions that followed, obviously longer films came, and they gave us sound, colour, stars, special effects, 3D and much more besides. For the fact that this is the first ever film to have existed in history, it is a most watchable black and white silent documentary film. Very good!

bob the moo I watched this film on a DVD that was rammed with short films from the period. I didn't watch all of them as the main problem with these type of things that their value is more in their historical novelty value rather than entertainment. So to watch them you do need to be put in the correct context so that you can keep this in mind and not watch it with modern eyes. With the Primitives & Pioneers DVD collection though you get nothing to help you out, literally the films are played one after the other (the main menu option is "play all") for several hours. With this it is hard to understand their relevance and as an educational tool it falls down as it leaves the viewer to fend for themselves, which I'm sure is fine for some viewers but certainly not the majority. What it means is that the DVD saves you searching the web for the films individually by putting them all in one place – but that's about it.Anyway onto this film which is famous as being the first film that an audience pay to see (IMDB told me that – not the DVD) and it will seem strange to modern audiences that people paid to watch people walking out of a factory (which is what this shows). However I shan't concern myself with that because I imagine that in 100 years people will look back on the work of Vin Diesel and wonder about the same thing. Shot on a static camera the scene is interesting in its historical context and it is short enough to provide food for thought. Also because nothing really happens it does give your brain the freedom to ponder on how the media has developed.Overall then, as with most of these shorts, a simple affair that is only really interesting to modern viewers due to its historical and cultural significance.

Alice Liddel The first film ever made. Workers streaming from a factory, some cycling, most walking, moving right or left. Along with Melies, the Lumieres are both the starting point and the point of departure for cinema - with Melies begins narrative fiction, cinema, fantasy, artifice, spectacle; with the Lumieres pure, unadorned, observation. The truth. There are many intellectuals who regret the ossification of cinema from the latter into the tired formulae of the former.But consider this short again. There is nothing 'objective' about it. The film is full of action - a static, inhuman scene burst into life, activity, and the quiet harmony of the frame is ruptured, decentred from the back to right or left (but never, of course, the front, where the camera is). And yet the camera stands stock still, contains the energy, the possible subversion, subordinates it to its will. The cinematograph may be a revolutionary invention, but it will be used for conservative purposes - to map out the world, edit it, restrict it, limit it.worse is the historical reality of the film. These factory workers are Lumiere employees. The bosses are spying on their workers, the unseen eye regarding his faceless minions. The film therefore describes two types of imprisonment. Behind the gates, the workers are confined in their workplace. The opening of the gate seems to be an image of freedom, escape, but they face another wall, the fourth wall, further confining them. The first film is also the first example of CCTV surveillance, an image of unseen, all-seeing authority entrapping its servants. A frightening, all too prophetic movie.