Maurizio I can't believe that this film is so high rated here, I just couldn't stand it, it was a pain to get to the end of it. An hour and a half of pure nothing, the story can be summarized in 2 lines, the actual events could have been squeezed in a 10 minutes short film. All the rest is useless crap: a cup of coffee on a table filmed for about 10 seconds, 2 full minutes of annoying arabian music with mother and son on the bed without uttering a word, long, unbearably long scenes where NOTHING at all happens, unexisting dialogue, unexpressive characters, everything about this movie is pure bore, tedium, humdrum.The twist end doesn't save the failure of what could have been a good story, if only it were brought on film in a different way. Sorry herr Haneke, I did like Funny Games, but this crap is unwatchable.

MovieGuy01 I thought that Bennys Video was quite a disturbed film, and violent at times. In Bennys Video 14-year old Benny (Arno Frisch) spends his days at school around with his school mates, visiting the video arcade, and watching scenes recorded by his video camera on the television monitor in his room. Bennys Mother (Angela Winkler) seems to only be available to fill the fridge with microwaveable food, Bennys parents spend much time away leaving Benny on his own which the young boy fills with watching a documentary film he made of a pig being slaughtered beginning with being shot in the head with a butchers gun. One afternoon Benny meets a young girl (Ingrid Stassner) in front of a video store and invites her home where they have pizza, and milk and watch videos. Benny shows the girl the butchers gun that he stole when he made the video of the pig slaughter. This is quite a violent film directed by Michael Haneke

Michael O'Keefe Fourteen year old Benny(Arno Frisch)seems to be totally neglected by his professional parents. The fridge is always full and he has a room full of electronic technology. His world has become warped with the idea somehow making anything recorded on video is better that anything he can see with his naked eyes. He loves watching violent videos and spends a lot of time watching outside his window by via his elaborate video recording setup. One particular day he notices a girl(Ingrid Stassner), who always seems to be looking through the window of the video store. Benny invites her home and lets her view a film of a pig being led to slaughter; actually watching the swine fall dead with a squeal. Benny ends up murdering the girl and drags her to a closet, all recorded for his viewing titillation. Reality in Benny's world is to rewind, replay, fast forward, pause, rewind.

Its_Cold_In_Canada OK I saw this movie and I will admit I am not a fan of Heneke, I merely stumbled upon this movie, somehow I don't know. Anyways it had some great concepts and awesome foreshadowing in it and the ending really was dark and marvelous.But it was all present in such a way that it was horribly boring to watch. It was tedious through the whole movie, and everything was slow and wretchedly so. This film could have been compressed into a lot shorter of a movie and come off as a way better performance but as it was I just can't say i enjoyed it overall.I was glad when it was over, it had great promise and I can see why people enjoyed it but personally for myself I just couldn't take it. I know most fans of this movie will disagree but as an everyday movie viewer like myself, it was just to slow, all the concepts where there though and it was a good movie, but I couldn't take the pace, 4 out of 10.