The National Film Museum is located in a spectacular building, very impressive from the outside and also the inside. When you go up the elevator it offers a spectacular 360° view over Torino. 5/5 for that.

It offers a very detailed and comprehensive tour through the history of photography from how vision works, the development of different techniques from steady images to moviemaking. This tour offers lots of interactive experiences and is highly popular with the many school classes visiting. 5/5

After that you get to sections of movie sets, like a 1950ies living-room playing the latest news on the b&w TV. It's fun to go through, but not really relevant or explaining much.

There's also a section showing the different elements that contribute to making of the movie. Unfortunately, for people who are not familiar with this, this stays extremely generic and offers nearly no explanations. There could be so many cool experiences offered, think of a soundstage.

The reason why I visited the Film Museum, was that I was looking forward to the celebration of the Italian cinema. And that's where they totally lost me. I was expecting works on Federico Fellini, Carlo Ponti, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luchino Visconti, Vittoria de Sica, Roberto Rossellini etc., but their work was presented in a wild potpourri of photos from famous movies, Italian and international, unfortunately, often not thematically arranged. They are flanked by some original artefacts used in movies, like MM's bustier standing out from the masses. I think this could be done much better. 2/5

While I was there, however, there was a main show given to Dario Argento, in the horror and slasher movies. Quite a tasteless exhibition, taking too much of importance. 1/5

The center-piece of the museum offers a cool feature of lounge-chairs that allow you to watch on big screens some snippets of movies. However the sound effects of these snippets overshadow all other noises and contribute to the overall confusion.

Finally, and that deserves 0 stars here, is the fact that you can enter with the Torino Card. And you should be able to also reserve the elevator ride. However, there is no way to reserve, apart from buying separate tickets on the museum's website. They give you timeslots, as the elevator is tiny and fits maybe 8 people in total. We were there during a regular workweek and we did not need to wait at all for the elevator ride. So 50€ thrown out of the window… 0/5

All, in all, it's a place to visit, but that in some areas didn't live up to my expectations, as a movie buff. There's room for improvement.