Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Aug 18 '02
Pros: Marlon Brando's excellent performance
Cons: none
Summary: The backdrop for this classic movie is the world of New Jersey longshoremen’s docks, stronghold of corrupt unions and organized crime. The main character is Terry Malloy, a former boxer and errand boy for the local union boss, Johnny Friendly. Terry is...
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Dec 11 '11
Pros: Unprecedented acting, superb direction, deep storyline.
Cons: Score of the film is a bit dated
Summary: On the Waterfront is one of the greatest films of all time, and a landmark in American motion pictures. Anchored by groundbreaking performances by the immaculate Marlon Brando and his supporting cast (including Karl Malden's finest role and a ...
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Jul 12 '10
Pros: Everything about the movie is great!
Cons: Nothing wrong with film at all.
Summary: Rarely does a film produce itself as perfect. “On the Waterfront” is a great example of this notion. This movie has outstanding acting performances, great music, amazing direction and scenery, and has a brilliant story to go along. There is ...
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Apr 10 '10
Pros: Great acting!
Cons: Film copy is a bit tattered through age.
Summary: § In like Flynn: Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), pushing thirty, has a good thing going for him. His brother Charley (Rod Steiger) is right hand man to the president of the Longshoreman union: Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) who ...
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Apr 01 '08
Pros: Brando, storyline, visual, original, powerful, tear-jerking
Cons: I didn't watch it sooner!
Summary: Sitting at the dock of the bay...watching sensitive and savage Marlon Brando as ex-boxer and dockworker Terry Malloy. I rented this movie from Blockbuster, and am now purchasing it, because it is worth it's weight in Oscar Gold, in which Marlon ...
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Sep 04 '05
Pros: Great perfs from the Actors Studio alum with equally perfect direction from Kazan
Cons: sometimes... a little staged to showcase the acting
Summary: On The Waterfront in this newly re-mastered print on this DVD is exceptional as a slice of historical material that is a towering performance platform. Marlon Brando, Eve Marie Saint, Karl Malden, and also director Elia Kazan all shine here. The ...
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Apr 07 '05
Pros: Marlon Brando's exceptional performance, Eva Marie Saint's incredible debut, Karl Malden
Cons: A bit dated, but easily overlooked
Summary: "On the Waterfront" is a dramatic masterpiece in which Marlon Brando shines exceedingly. His emotional distress throughout the movie is experienced by both his character and the audience. The basic plot: Marlon Brando works on the waterfront which is ...
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Oct 03 '02
Pros: Social commentary, location shooting, black & white cinematography
Cons: Controversial message
Summary: "On the Waterfront" is a thrilling, landmark drama. While it remains as entertaining today as it was back in the fifties, it may be difficult for today's audiences to appreciate what this film was to audiences back in 1954.
Marlon Brando...
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Sep 30 '02
Pros: Uniformly excellent acting, tight script, authenticity, technical aspects
Cons: Nothing really, although the messages are controversial
Summary: Looking back at the 1950s, I have noticed that this is the time when many of film's greatest classics were made. Films like All About Eve, Singin' In The Rain and High Noon were made at the beginning of the decade, while the decade...
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Jul 04 '02
Pros: Brando, Eva St. Marie, Lee J. Cobb , Rod Steiger, performances and directing
Cons: Not a "pretty" movie by a long shot, and too real to be fun entertainment
Summary: This is a classic, and it includes one of the most memorable
scenes ever acted in movies, and one of the most parodied. I find that when I look back to a film era, and to the concurrent artistic movements in painting, music and other fine arts, the...
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Apr 27 '02
Pros: Acting, direction, writing. Filmed in gritty, documentary fashion.
Cons: Melodrama, many (But not myself) question film's messages.
Summary: This story, about a dockworker named Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) and his battle against union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb), is I consider one of the best movies ever made. Despite this, some have criticized scenes of the movie and even present...
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Jan 07 '02
Pros: marlon brando, the great 'BUD', who coulda bin a contenda...
Cons: you tell me.
Summary: wow, wow, wow...
where do I start?
Aside from the huge political stance of this film involving Elia Kazans informing on certain parties, this is a true film for the vaults. Brando's performance as the punched out boxer Terry Malloy is the stuff...
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Nov 14 '01
Pros: Brando, Steiger, Saint and a few memorable scenes.
Cons: The Controversy, Kazan's weak-visualization-in-some-scenes some corniness.
Summary: The newly released DVD of On the Waterfront does not bring us a pristine looking version of the film that has been meticulously restored as happened with Citizen Kane. It looks okay over-all and does have some interesting extras. It's also a bit...
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Jul 08 '00
Pros: good acting, perfectly captures '50's generation
Cons: none
Summary: On the Waterfront, a quintessential social conscience film, shows the corruption of labor as seen through the personal conflict of one man. Terry’s relationships with the other adults is that of a slowly maturing child, which is eager at first, then...
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May 07 '00
Pros: Great acting, Great directing, a classic, one of the greatest performances in history
Cons: Politically, it may be reprehensible
Summary: He's so good, it's like everyone else is moving in slow motion. In the 1950s, Marlon Brando and James Dean revolutionized how the world approached film acting. Nothing shows it like this film. The entire cast and crew crafts one of the great classic...
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