Onegin Reviews

When I think back to much of the movie I suppose it was kind of boring, but truthfully I really enjoyed watching this movie, it was just a very relaxing movie wich was nice sense I was watching it at 3 in the morning. Yet it didnt put me to sleep. A semi-interesting plot wich is really help up by the act, that at times can be cheesey but good. Ralph Fiennes is spectacular as always. If I could listen to any voice for the rest of my life it would be his. He is a complete gentleman! and HIs sexy smoldering eyes are only enhanced by his off redish colored hair. Ah I just love everything about him. Liv Tyler wasnt bad. All she did in this movie was pout and be sad but it worked. The costumes were fantasic I looved all the fur accets. See how they are in russia is deffinetly is a givven but it was used so well and not over the top. The cinematography is also quite good when it comes into play. If youre look for a movie to suggle up on the couch and just chill to, and you love ralph fiennes this is it. But if your not a huge Fiennes fan like me I guess the movie is really noting special, but i enjoyed it.

It was boring, had me snoring, te de doo da. Extravagant in detail but thin in just about everything else. Woman loves man, man leaves, man comes back, loves woman, they don't get together. More about one womans pride and refusal to cheat on her husband if anything. It is bland and contains no substance. The emotions it deals with are the most interesting aspects but everything looks so dreary. A duel half way through was magnificently filmed and really captured the tension of the moment, as well as being beautifully shot. Fiennes' reaction was brilliant and thoughtful, as is a lot of the acting in this film. It's just a shame that the film is as interesting as putting on a coat, and not a nice shiny coat with lights, just a normal brown coat. Doesn't even have a hole in it with an interesting story behind it.

Onegin was a charming and dramatic romance. It contained all of the elements of a great film. The acting was good. I could have only desire an extension of the romantic relationship with Onegin and Tatiana. There were very dramatic moments in the movie. The snow scenes were beautiful and I recommend this movie for those romantics at heart.

A personal favorite.

Honestly, I dont feel as though there was much of a plot. I was pretty underwhelmed by it, although both Ralph and Liv both gave good performances.

A very sweet, sad, and lovely film. Mellow and quiet, but I really enjoyed it. Martha Fiennes shows that equisite talent flows through that entire family(and Magnus Fiennes' equally sweet and haunting musical score only adds to it all), and showed herself to be a great director. A lot of the camera work was cleverly and beautifully done, and I just all in all really liked the showing of the story. Liv was gorgeous and very convincing, and Ralph was handsome and although at times aggravating, eventually won me over. I was surprised by this film, and really enjoyed it.

Romantic tragedy, a bout a man who juilts a woman when she declares her love. Later when she is married, he realizes what he had and lost too late. and is left a lonely old man. Good film, not a lot of dialouge. Love Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler.

Oh, I really loved this movie, even with it's strange ending - I think that's what set it apart from the other movies I watch. Lets face it, in usual films, them man and woman would of found a way to be together, they would of loved eachother inspite of everything, but these parted ways at the end: she stayed true, and he, respectfully, left her.
A strange contrast to other films and I still try to find if it's really a tragity or maybe a greater love story then you would think.

Considering the acting talent, this movie was a flat-out dud. Not only slow, but dull. That's what you get when you let your wife direct you. Hear that Ralph Fiennes?

Really great movie...also sad that it took him so long to realize he did indeed love her...too bad it was too late! Got to love Ralph Fiennes though!

This was a GREAT film. Its just what a tragic love story should be. Definately worth a look and Liv Tyler was amazing as always.

very beautiful settings and costumes... very beautiful actors... but the story just bore me to death!!!!! lol! But i give credit that the director is a rookie and made a beautiful work...

i saw this movie on my history class and i really like it, i kinda see something diferent compare with other 18 century films. Sure it´s not a happy ever after history.

I just love this movie. Can't put my finger on exactly why. Maybe that's part of the reason. Unrequited, unfulfilled love stories make my chest ache with emotion.

i see how most people would find this movies boring, as most my classmates at school did - but i really enjoyed its aesthetics, the visuals and the elegance of the unfulfilled love story certainly make up for the lack of interesting plot.

I am highly disappointed to see the low tomatometer rating for this film. Ralph Fiennes successfully, in my opinion, portrayed a personality type habituated to abusive relationships. Liv Tyler's visual presence communicated, to me, the raw desire of a young woman. The St. Peterburg Sets were convincing. As was the period costumes. Finally, the film score contributed strongly to the eastern european ambience of the film.

A great movie .... the best directed movie I have ever seen. She has a gift that can not be taught..... I hope to see a lot more from her. A must see movie... however their is so much to see in the movie I recommend ywatch it at least 3 times.

Completely boring until the last scene successfully drawn my entire senses.

How calm the scenery. How fiery the tension in every scene. The seminal love story. Pushkin wrote about true love stories, and it's reality is what makes it poignant. The only movie that makes me cry.

ONEGIN

Nicely done. The film has a certain dreamlike quality that is charming but mysteriously dark and foreboding at the same time just as a first-rate horror story should possess. The plot keeps pretty much to the novel by Alexander Pushkin portraying the Russian nobility and wealthy landowners before the Revolution with an entitlement mentality, enjoying an over-privileged life with all its opulence, ornate trappings, and obscenely extravagant finery that is beautiful to watch but must have been hellish to accept for the regular working class and peasants. Evgeny Onegin is a young man born into this rarefied upper class world, who is rich and socially well connected, but who is also deeply in debt due to his expensive tastes and habits acquired by living the high-life in St. Petersburg along with his small inner circle of like-minded friends. Moreover, Onegin is restless, jaded, and bored with his life, although he is not quite ready to change it either. One day Evgeny learns that his uncle has died leaving considerable monetary assets to him alone. In the process of straightening out his legal affairs, Onegin must remain for a time at his uncle's country estate where he meets the neighbors, including lovely, romantic Tatiana, who fancies that she is madly in love with him. What happens next reminded me of Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina, but with a different ending that I thought was a much better one anyway, although a tragedy all the same.