Pearl Harbor for the English Patient crowd -- a movie that reduces history, as well as eros, to a postcard.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
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Reviews Counted:114
Fresh:33
Rotten:81
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: The cinematography is gorgeous, but the movie plays it fast and loose with history and the novel it was adapted from. Mostly, the movie fails because the romance between the leads strains credulity and the story is largely uninvolving.
Theatrical Release:Aug 17, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $25,261,240
Synopsis: Academy Award (R) winner Nicolas Cage (City of Angels) and Penelope Cruz (All About My Mother) star in Captain Corelli's Mandolin, an epic tale about the enduring hope of love and the devastating... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Christian Bale, John Hurt
Director: John Madden
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Reviews for Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Cage fumbles through the scenes with an Itralian accent reminiscent of his Moonstruck days.
08/16/01
Very little about Mandolin is not in some way disappointing.
08/16/01
Top CriticA sweet but flawed wartime romance with enough gorgeous scenery and quaint villagers to choke a horse.
08/16/01
A dramatic film, I'd wager, Roberto Benigni would enjoy.
08/16/01
With Madden's languid pacing and Shawn Slovo's sappy script, the movie begs for a one word review: Yuck.
08/16/01
There's little on-screen sexual chemistry between Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz, even when he woos her with music by seductively strumming his mandolin, and the conclusion seems anti-climactic.
08/15/01
Mandolin tries awfully hard to be The English Patient but instead is only slightly less ridiculously annoying than Pearl Harbor.
08/15/01
Billows in any direction that Shawn Slovo's gasbag script might blow it.
08/14/01
Fans will argue it's not as good as the book, but John Madden has delivered a pretty mooch around rustic, tranquil Cephallonia.
08/14/01
Not great, but you can enjoy the beauty of a Greek island without suffering its August heat.
08/13/01
Madden's film amounts to dullard's comatose trip to an isle ready for political upheaval with a little help from a mandolin-playing Benigni drone.
08/13/01
What a droopy, disappointing film this is.
08/10/01
I would love to know what kind of emotions were running through those who took part in the Cephalonia romances, and this movie doesn't help me much.
07/23/01
Comes engagingly close to being the assured romantic epic you would want it to be.
05/04/01
There are some great set-pieces and comic moments and enough drama and beauty for some pleasant escapism.
05/01/01
In its own right the film works superbly.
04/16/01
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