The visuals/cinematographic aspects of this film are excellent and really show imagination and push the film in the direction where it is meant to go. However, the characters are nearly all complete pieces of shit who I don't care about in the slightest. The main guy has absolutely no presence at all, which may or may not be intentional but it's still irritating and if it was intentional then it failed miserably at sucking me into his position. Paz De La Huerta plays these annoying bitchy characters far too well. The French guy is actually pretty cool but he's only in like 30 minutes of the movie. The philosophy that this movie centers around is the most pretentious bullshit imaginable. I'm no prude but the sex scenes in this movie are absurd and could have been done in a million better ways. There are also certain things that this movie does that are overly irritating. Yeah I get it, the strobe lights and that disgusting abortion scene are supposed to irritate me but they just go too far and those goddamn car crash simulations are practically giving me PTSD.

Long story short, I respect the imagination, directing talent, and effort that Enter the Void showcases but I fucking hate this movie. Oh, and the best part is the Beginning credits

What a crazy movie! You have to be on something to enjoy it.

I don't have the words to do justice to this film. Clearly you'll either love it or hate it. Definitely visually stunning & I watched it sober as a judge. I think watching this high would take away from the experience. I found it interesting that there was very little dialogue or music, and it was all very muffled anyway (I turned subtitles on in fact), yet visually it was an assault on my eyes. It reminded me of the idea that when one sense fades, another increases, like blind people who have extra acute hearing, for example.

Not an easy enjoyable experience, but well worth the effort.

That had to have been the trippiest movie ever.

The presentation was good overall, but the camerawork always made you feel detached from the movie, not that there was much story to follow anyway. Purposely slow, probably because that's arty and anti mainstream? Yeah, it does go after a certain crowd. The kind that will name drop this movie to be taken seriously.
The guy who dies, what a boring life in flashbacks. There's always some obvious psychedelic imagery as if to yell 'hey, were a cool on drugs movie', like thats supposed to add artistic value. Felt like a big drug = art cliché. I can imagine people saying you need drugs to appreciate this movie. That would be another cliché. Randon sex or flesh to try and be daring art? It's too conscious of trying to be artistic so it's taken serious, and it's this objective that left it cold.

I would never ever watch this movie again. Tripping or not.

This flick glamorizes the drug scene.
Watch carefully.
Before watch Drugstore Cowboy and Trainspotting

Must be my short attention span or something but +2.5 hours of floating in and out of shit starts to get on your tits. As others have said though, probably way better watching this when on something... anything. :D

"DMT only lasts for six minutes, but it really seems like an eternity. It releases the same chemical your brain receives when you die. It's a little like dying would be the ultimate trip."

Enter the Void is like 2001: A Space Odyssey but a nightmarish drug trip that escalates into the void of desolation. The camera floats around and above the characters, and we sometimes jump between the past and the present. Just imagine a ghost with a god eye. It’s shocking and depressing and doesn’t stop until the end.

It’s an experience like no other - an experience I would never like to revisit. Either way, it is one of the best.

A Harrowing film, that felt more like a psychologically draining and surreal trip of the terrifying depths of human psychosis

Deeply unpleasant, no reward for sitting through two and a half hours of unremitting gloom

Wouldn’t say that Gasper Noe is the best filmmaker working today (i give that to Park Chan Wook), but he is up there.

And his style is amazing. So refreshing to see someone experiment in ‘major’ films. And in this case it works.

I was actually expecting to hate it as I don’t like movies about drugs and cant stand anything psychedelic.

But it is one of the best films of the century so far.

8/10. Might give it higher after i have had time to reflect on it more.

And they said making The Tibetan Book of the Dead into a movie couldn't be done. They should've said 'shouldn't be done'.

Enter the Void is a junkie wearing too much makeup to hide all of its flaws, where Noé's visuals are the makeup, 'bad acne' is 'bad acting', and 'laugh lines' are 'lack of lines'.

The repetition in the story bogs the film down and the 1st person POV is distracting af. It's a drug movie, sure, but a soft drug movie like Requiem for a Daydream or 21 Grammas. My problem is I'm too sober for this.

it's visually very irritating.... story is moderate as it shows the life of a drug dealer and how he sees the world. the best part of the movie is opening credits with "ENTER" and end credits with "THE VOID"

On one hand this movie is good for the visual aspect, but it’s also a pretty sad movie to see all these lost broken down souls who’s lives evolve around sex and drugs.

Cruelty, loss and betrayal - a perfect cocktail of wrong decisions leading to perpetual nothingness.

"Enter the Void" surprises with breathtaking images that capture the indescribable. It catapults the viewer into the event, sinks its claws deep under the skin and doesn't let go until the end. It will stay with you like all the bad decisions of your life.