JCfan-3

Give me a break. What do you see in this movie? Sure, Spacey's a great actor, but we knew that already. Sam Mendes is a fake. The "petal sequences" are embarrassing, most of the jokes are cheap, the cinematography is in poor taste and the characters are so wildly stereotyped... I can't find the reason why it has a 9.0 average being such a piece of trash. I'm sure it's gonna win like a thousand Oscars, but after Shakespeare in Love won the Best Picture award, I won't be surprised. The film tries so hard to look like an independent film but it could never be one. Sam Mendes, don't steal our money anymore. And Spielberg. First The Haunting, then this... I think Dreamworks isn't a good idea. I'll give it a 3, but I'm sure that after the Oscars it will be a 1 for me. And please, if anyone can tell me why it's suppossed to be a masterpiece, please e-mail me, because I don't know.

Come on, guys. Gimme a break. What the hell did you see in this film? It's just the old cliche ridden classical music film. The only great film of this kind is Inmortal Beloved. Amadeus, Farinelli and this are terrible!!! And, worst of all, this is a mix between those films and the unwatchable Rain Man, for the mentally ill character element, perversely put to manipulate the viewer emotionally. At least here we don't have Dustin Hoffman. The only reason to watch this film is Geoffrey Rush. His acting is great and saves this film from being the fiasco it would have been, and still is in some way. Score: 2 out of 10.

This is a bad, bad film. Minghella's previous film was a brilliant romantic comedy named Mr. Wonderful. Then he got pretentious and fell in love with the Oscars. This film is filled with Oscar Winner cliches, has no pace and no interest whatsoever. Not even the acting. If you wanna see the great Willem Dafoe, check out The Last Temptation of Christ, which is an absolute masterpiece and has a wonderful performance by Willem. But please, stay out from this film. Score: 2 out of 10 (at least it has good cinematography). Come to think of it, it does have its moments, so let's leave it to a 4 out of 10.