English Patient

Pros: Delicious scenery, actors, heartfelt emotions.
Cons: Twisting, convoluted plot and slow pace make most want to scream "Get on with it!"

Yep that movie. I've been refraining from reviewing it for some time for several reasons. What may surprise you is that I haven't done so because I really do love this film for the layers and layers of story to be found inside. And also because...

Pros: good cast, interesting structure
Cons: long and hard to follow

This past Christmas, my aunt brought several boxes of videos along with her to the traditional family gathering. Having switched over to DVDs, she was running out of space, so all those movies she'd taped over the years were fair game for the rest of ...

Pros: Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Tomas, but not together, The cinematography, and the story
Cons: The length, the lack of any redeeming features for the protagonists, except their prose.

I came to bury this movie in whatever expletives I could devise, because having watched it again, I spent hours afterward wondering why I sat there and cried when no one else in the room shed a single tear. To be honest, though, both dogs were asleep....

Pros: cinematography. music. Binoche
Cons: It is so slow, convoluted and LONG.....really L....o....n....g!

When this movie first started getting all sorts of acclaim, I went to see it in the theaters. My response then was "Oh my gosh! This is so long! ....and it feels even longer!" (The film runs 2 hours and 35 minutes) I don't ever remember having been less...

Pros: Powerfully romantic script; strong themes; magnificent performances; exotic locales, costumes, and art design; good soundtrack
Cons: Grotesque thumb-severing scene

With only the experience of a few films behind him, English director Anthony Minghella took on, in 1994, what must have seemed like a daunting task, when he agreed to try to draft a screenplay from Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient, ...

Pros: The cast, the acting, good story
Cons: If you have short attention span, forget this movie

I am a bored, 25-year-old female graduate student with nothing else to do on a Friday night besides grade papers and study microbes. Enter The English Patient. I rented it out of sheer curiosity, because I remember that there were all sorts ...

Pros: wonderfully told love story, beautiful film
Cons: long, confusing

The English Patient is a tragic tale of forbidden, passionate love that is inevitably doomed. It’s an epic film filled with beautiful cinematography. It features an absolutely wonderful cast including Ralph Fiennes (the role of...

Pros: One or two character/acting moments, Decent plot structure, DVD Bonus features
Cons: Pacing, Characters are largely unempathetic, Melodramatic acting

Knowing nothing about the movie, today I popped in "The English Patient" as part of my Veteran's Day celebration. Compared to the other films in my cache - which had nothing to do with any wars - I figured it might be an interesting way to spend the ...

Pros: Great performances; beautiful cinematography, art direction and costumes.
Cons: Melodramatic, predictable and somewhat offensive story (glorifies adultery).

I walked into "The English Patient" expecting to see "an epic story of love and war," and unfortunately, that's exactly what I got. This is one of the most disguised films I've ever seen; a melodramatic soap opera pretending to be a touching film of ...

Pros: Fine performances, great sounds,
Cons: too lengthy and boring, hard to follow if you missed anything

First off, let me begin by stating that I am a die hard romantic, although I may not be wild about Valentine's Day(mainly because my mother's birthday falls on the same day and I can't quite visualize being romantic on the same day my mother is enjoying...

Pros: Best romance flick in years...
Cons: May be unsuitable for certain audiences...

The thing that got me out to see this one was the critics' remarks that "This is how great movies are made", or something to that effect. After the first half-hour I fully agreed. I had a major problem with the theme of adultery; it's a shame...

Pros: The visual design is miraculously impressive.
Cons: The romantic interludes may turn odd the most snooty of art house patrons.

(Dir: Anthony Minghella, Starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristen Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jürgen Prochnow, Kevin Whatley, Clive Merrison, Nino Castelnuovo, Hichem Rostom, Peter Rühring, Geordie...

Pros: quality cinematography, nurse/Sikh soldier love affair sub-plot
Cons: extreme religious irreverence, gross historical inaccuracies

I saw this movie, because my former (and I stress former) fiancee made me. We had our biggest fight ever as a result of this movie. All the girls were crying. All the men (real men) were fidgeting and 'pshawing' and 'sheeshing' through the movie. I...

Pros: Pretty pictures
Cons: long, dull, long, dull

I can already see the SWs. I care not. I don't remember enough about this movie to even give you a general idea of what it was about. I was pretty much catatonic through 90% of it. This movie was the first movie I ever saw that I felt was a complete and...

Pros: Beautiful story, acting, and cinematography
Cons: A bit confusing at times

I've been waiting a long time to see this film - ever since it won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1996, actually. I finally found my chance this weekend, when I knew that my husband would be working and that my son would be napping for at...