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source: The English Patient

I Know I shoudln't apologize for my review, but this is a strong one and I know a lot of women will be reading this. I didn't like this movie. It's not that it doesn't have convincing drama or romance, or that is doesn't have a good story, it has that. I just found it too long. It was as boring as watching golf onm television. I wanted to like this film (the Academy did, it gave the film 9 Oscars including best film) but I just found something too artsy about it and it was not good. I reccomend this to heart sick women and depressed lovers. OTHERS BEWARE. With Ralph Fiennes, Kristen Scott Thomas, Juliet Binoche and Willem Dafoe. D+

"The English Patient" is by all accounts a huge movie which has received so much commentary over the past 7 years that there's little point in contributing to the noise. The problem I had with the film was simply it wasn't believable. Everyone in this film does extraordinary and incredibly stupid things, all in the name of force feeding you the film's melodrama. Good in all respect save perhaps it's length and difficult buy-in (I kept wishing he'd just die and get it over with) "The English Patient" has been carefully tweaked to make it easy to swallow. So, if you haven't seen the film yet, be prepared to have to chug-a-lug a whole lot of movie for only a moderate payoff. (B)

There just isn't anything good to say about this nonsense. With this film Ralph Fiennes has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that without a strong and creative director his performances will run the gamut of emotion from a to b (with credit to Dorothy Parker for that wonderful line).

This movie has suffered from an undeserved Oscar backlash. It is truly a powerful film experience. The writing, direction, and acting are all perfect. All the passion of this film is overwhelming! What did this film do wrong to anger so many people? Was it the complexity of the characters and the situations that they were in? Was it some anti-British sentiment? No, I'm willing to bet that it is just plain stupidity. So get a life and watch this masterpiece again.

The English Patient is right up there with Titanic in the groundbreaking new genre: Visually stunning movies celebrating amoral, unlikable characters. Look at the core themes of this lame little number: Adultery is okay if both parties are pretty. It's noble to betray your allies in wartime in order to retrieve the corpse of your adulterous lover. Lust equals love and it is the supreme value, even if it means other people get maimed and killed and tortured, not to mention just emotionally worked over. I mean, yeah it's nice that our anti-hero's lady-love didn't have to get a boob job to be considered desirable, but she was so morally repulsive that it ended up being a back-handed complement to the small-breasted women of the world. I guess we're only attractive if we're tramps? If you haven't made the mistake of watching The English Patient, save yourself the trouble. Go rent Casablanca instead.

An abysmal shocker of a picture which whilst displaying an utter lack of soul also makes a ham-fisted interpretation of the book. Overall, is has the beautiful look of a pop video made on a massive budget and all the soul and plot of a hayfever relief commercial.

And I'm not saying this because of my age, my gender, or where I'm from. In fact, that's completely irrelevant. Beautiful and Overblown imagery doesn't compensate for an otherwise boring movie, with selfish, cardboard-cutout characters and no one to stand up for in the finale. Why did S&E like this? Why did the Academy give this 9 Oscars? Could anyone make a deliberately paced WWII romance movie with despicable characters any day and get the same undeserved recognition? I just don't get it. If this was supposed to be some sort of a philosophical message movie, I'm still not impressed. That's because this film wasn't a statement, or an epic, or an actual romantic period piece. It was clearly an overrated travesty aimed to naive loverbug imbeciles who fail to impress anyone, even in a personal's ad. Case closed

How can one feel for Adulterers, traitors, murderers, and Nazi Collaborators. True Love is supposed to make you strong and Good. Instead, it turns these two lustful maniacs into all of the above. It was like rooting for Mickey and Mallory from "Natural Born Killers". Just can't do it.... People who ignore the moral implications of the movie, and simply want to focus on the romance and love, do not know the meaning of 'Love'!