The film winds up being more a celebration of Spacey than Darin.
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12/05/04
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Beyond the Sea (2004)
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Reviews Counted:148
Fresh:63
Rotten:85
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Kevin Spacey’s bio of singer Bobby Darin is either a fearless piece of showmanship or an embarrassing vanity project, according to critics.
Theatrical Release:Dec 17, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $6,144,806
Synopsis: For BOBBY DARIN (Kevin Spacey), performing was his life. It kept his heart beating. He came alive onstage, even when he was near collapse offstage. In BEYOND THE SEA, Bobby tells his own story.... [More]
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Brenda Blethyn, Caroline Aaron
Director: Kevin Spacey
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Reviews for Beyond the Sea
Never brings Bobby Darin’s life into sharp focus, but at least gives us an appealing dose of show-biz razzle dazzle
12/16/04
...this is a film that might -- like Coppola's One From the Heart -- develop something of a cult following
02/11/05
'... an intriguing visual style akin to a multi-car pile-up involving All That Jazz, Funny Girl and Moulin Rouge.'
01/05/05
Much more 'Splish' than 'Splash.'
01/15/05
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09/26/05
Mr. Spacey clearly has an impassioned and intense love for this Bobby Darin biopic, and like a parent, he will be devastated by its sure failure
12/27/04
A showy, energetic little soap opera whose best moments come when Spacey plays it straight.
02/16/05
Spacey weaves real-life drama with musical set-pieces to create a vibrant and whimsical portrait.
11/23/04
You can't get much more Hollywood than a movie about a performer in which success is synonymous with quality.
12/17/04
Beyond the Sea is a beautiful whirlwind musical homage to crooner Bobby Darin's remarkable career and astonishing life...
11/02/04
Your standard biopic boilerplate, with a lot of self-reflexive hokum.
12/30/04
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01/15/05
Despite all the buoyant, high-stepping energy, Spacey's gushing biopic sinks into his own grandiosity.
01/06/05
Although the picture is aggressively ambitious, there isn't an ounce of common sense anywhere in it.
11/28/04
Proves Spacey knows Darin's ambitions, egotism, controlling nature, swinging performance style, family dynamics and lifelong fear of the early death that came in 1973 -- everything, I think, except that he's miscast as Darin's idol.
12/30/04
The movie possesses genuine feeling because Spacey is there with Darin during all the steps of this journey, up and down, all the way into death.
12/29/04
Top CriticBeyond the Sea doesn't quite have [that swing]. But it's close.
12/29/04
Top CriticSpacey is almost as swinging as Darin was, but his filmmaking leans toward tried-and-true formulas.
12/16/04
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