runamokprods A quirky, fun and ultimately very moving 'family' film (although way more grown up than that tag usually implies). Two young brothers from a working class Irish family find a bag of cash. One wants to spend it, invest it, use it, but the other feels compelled to follow the lead of the saints and give it to the poor. A film with a lovely sense of humor, of family and of the way a kid sees the world. It has a few sticky-sweet moments, but they're much more than made up for by the very real moments of tension, humanity, loss, humor and emotion, Terrific performances all around, and given high energy by the always entertaining, wildly talented Danny Boyle. A film with the true spirit of Christmas, even if it's not a 'Christmas film'.

G K With only days to go until the UK converts to the Euro, two young brothers (Alex Etel and Lewis McGibbon) find an abandoned holdall full of 20 pound and 50 pound notes, and wonder how best to spend it. Christian publications weighed in on the film, many adding stock to its religious message.Millions offers a gorgeous twist on a familiar narrative device: Danny Boyle, one of Britain's most versatile directors, had already employed (for darker purposes) a plot that hinged on a found bag full of money in Shallow Grave (1994). In contrast, this is a terrific family feature that manages to be profoundly moral without ever patronising either its young audience or any grown-ups looking on.

kai ringler thought that this was a great human feel good story. those two little boys did a remarkable job with it, the story goes like this,, a boy playing outside his house happens to get lucky when a bag is tossed out of a train,, unbeknownst to him at first it has over a quarter million pounds in it, well at first he doesn't know what to do with it, so he shows it to his older brother, then they come up with a few ideas for the money, one being to give away some of the money to the poor.. along the way the meet several characters,, "saints" , like Francis of Assisi, and so on and so forth, you see their mother is dead so they are really trying to find their mother, but as the movie goes on having all of this money leads to chaos and more problems for the boys, as they start getting people following them and pretending to be their friends,, soon they realize that having all of this money does more harm than good,, all in all i liked this movie very much,, i was surprised to find out that Danny Boyle from 28 days later had directed this one,, congratulations Danny on a job well done.

Framescourer I found myself rather moved by this movie, although I felt I'd been half bullied into it. It's a remarkable film about the value of things. The grand concept is rather like Brewster's Millions for a saintly child: the character of the film is one in which Danny Boyle has run with this literally. Frenetic and flashy, the story is told largely from a child's perspective, complete with overlapping memory, magic real- and sur-realism, lots of colour and a generally breezy way of relating even the most frightening or upsetting episodes. I like it, although it does feel like one is watching a cyclical commercial.The acting's OK - may favourite is Lewis McGibbon who plays Anthony, the brother of the principal, Damian. It's tough to be hard of the cast given the aesthetic that Boyle has created for them to work in which can often be like supercharged Hollyoaks. Yet, as I say, I was touched by the sentimental, worthily naive message at the end of it all. This is because for all Boyle's light touch he's not neglecting the story at all. A super Christmas flick for the family to gather round. 6/10