The Bridge of San Luis Rey Reviews

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a beautiful movie. The film's shooting locations are exquisite. The sets are stunning. The costumes are gorgeous. The actors are superlative. Too bad the movie sucks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

Why do good actors pop up in bad movies? More perplexingly, why do so many good actors end up in the same bad movie?

Full Review

How to turn an embarrassment of riches into an embarrassment, period.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4

leaves audience with the same unanswered question as the one asked by its narrator

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

the worst film of the year... a fraud of the highest order

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

A wobbly Bridge. Impressive cast can't save terrible script.

Full Review

As a director, McGuckian is overwhelmed by the immensity of her cast, and her misguided attempt to make a Hollywood epic on a European production budget.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

It is an intense philosophical undertaking that examines questions of faith, fate and chance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Best characterized as an honourable folly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Audiences may wonder why a picture with Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates and Harvey Keitel would be so bereft of hype. After you've endured the film, all 120 airless minutes, you'll understand the rationale behind the quiet release.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

An honorable but dull attempt to translate a neglected literary source to the screen.

Full Review

How bad could a movie be that features talent as serious as Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham and Geraldine Chaplin? That bad, alas.

| Original Score: 1/5

Though handsomely mounted, this parable of intersecting destinies and implacable tragedy is as lifeless as a wax tableau.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The Bridge of San Luis Rey raises an important philosophical question: Is it better to fall to one's death from a rickety rope bridge overlooking a deep gorge or watch this miserable movie about several people sharing that awful fate?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

An endless powdered-wigs-and-feathered-pen slog.

| Original Score: 0/4

So dully written and executed that you'll be wishing the production had collapsed instead of the swaying bridge of San Luis Rey.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The Viceroy states that they are 'surrounded by an ocean of boredom' - then you realize you're swimming in it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Even though director-adaptor Mary McGuckian expended much creative energy trying to pump original spirit into the characters, she never brings any of them to life.

Full Review

None of the performances work.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Unlike the bridge, the movie unravels at a very slow pace.

Full Review | Original Score: C-