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The film isn't dreadful: it is just generally disappointing.
The director can't seem to find a natural rhythm for the movie -- it's portentous and vague at the same time.
All the King's Men was suspended in editing limbo for nearly a year, and the final result only makes the mind reel at what it could have been carved from.
It's Zaillian's overdirection that cooks this whole mess into a flavorless gumbo. He never shows you something just once when he could show it twice and never leaves a point unhammered home.
It has a labored feel. The editing is choppy, allowing little of the film to flow naturally.
All the King's Men is the noblest kind of film failure -- high-minded, literary, cautionary, well-cast and pretty well-acted.
There's a good movie in here somewhere but Zaillian's muddied storytelling and lack of focus hides it beyond recall.
All the King's Men is a dull movie, mainly due to the fact that it is full of boring characters which are poorly written by writer/director Steven Zaillian and led by an underwhelming Jude Law.
Static and dreary, drained of juice and drenched in "respectable" lighting
"All the King's Men" is a grand scale embarrassment.
Mesmo que não o comparemos ao clássico de 49, este filme constrange pelo roteiro confuso, pela montagem artificial, pelas atuações decepcionantes e pela trilha excessiva, salvando-se apenas a bela fotografia.
Ambitious, slow-moving, trite political drama.
...a lush melodrama about the corruptibility of us all.
(...) Un notable elenco soberanamente desaprovechado.
trapavi Zaillianov scenarij koji kombiniraju%u0107i "poetske" flashbackove i Lawovu beskvrnu naraciju samo zbunjuje gledatelja
In some ways, this DVD is better than the movie it's all about.
Leaves out too much of the story to really work. Why are these people doing what they're doing? If I hadn't seen the 1949 version first, I would not have known.
Possibly the worst film adaptation of a literary novel since The Great Gatsby.
As much an old-fashioned potboiler as it is a political morality tale.
It's beautifully shot, acted and designed, but there's little cohesion in the story. Maybe one day we'll see a better cut, but for now this is a sadly fumbled opportunity.
We have a series of beautiful threads weaved together in such haphazard fashion that, despite their potential, form a surprisingly ugly quilt.
What should have been an incisive study of the American political scene turns out a lumbering celluloid white elephant.
Penn is terrific and the production values are impressive, but All the King's Men gets lost in a poorly-structured, overly complicated plot that fails to engage.
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