...It does achieve, if only intermittently, the aching feelings of love and loss, for both country and countrymen, that Frazier depicted so unforgettably in his novel.
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Cold Mountain (2003)
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Reviews Counted:216
Fresh:154
Rotten:62
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: The well-crafted Cold Mountain has an epic sweep and captures the horror and brutal hardship of war.
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $95,589,607
Synopsis: Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love... [More]
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Donald Sutherland
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Reviews for Cold Mountain
This could have been a powerful war story, but under the surface it is contrived and unconvincing and the performances are uninvolving.
01/07/04
Cold Mountain is . . . like a painting hanging in a museum. . .. It ignites your admiration, but fails to sufficiently seize your emotions.
01/07/04
... a good epic that tries too hard to be great.
01/06/04
Cold Mountain is set in frontier America, but it's staged in the wilderness of Romania! I knew something was wrong when the Confederacy declared war against Vlad the Impaler.
01/05/04
Despite fine work by Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, the story feels hollow at its core, the central romance barely resonating as the life-sustaining force it's meant to be.
01/04/04
Unveils a particularly violent chapter in U.S. history, and finds a million passionate stories inked out across its muddy, blood-soaked pages.
01/03/04
Not many movies have characters you can warm up to the way Cold Mountain does. That makes it a real treasure.
01/03/04
In spite of an entire film's worth of good intentions, you'll either love it or hate it based on the ending alone.
01/02/04
Minghella overdirects the movie like Frazier overwrites the novel.
01/02/04
Minghella crafts enough resonant, lyrical images to make the engrossing Cold Mountain a finely polished, emotionally harrowing epic.
01/02/04
It's a dichotomy of appearance, the forging of nature’s splendor defiled by base human behavior. That said, I wish it had stayed truer to the fatalistic mood it works up.
01/02/04
A classically crafted Civil War epic with actions and ideas aplenty - but not enough to fill its excessive length
01/02/04
A searing and haunting period saga with a mournful, universal anti-war lament.
12/31/03
Renee Zellweger is the best thing about this epic love story, but that's not to say that Jude and Nicole aren't great themselves.
12/31/03
Over-the-top performances by Hoffman and Zellweger drew me out of the picture.
12/31/03
Like a secular version of Ben Hur without the chariot race, Jude Law's character keeps going via the inspiration of a brief encounter with Ada Monroe
12/31/03
Anthony Minghella does his best Homeric impersonation with somewhat erratic results.
12/31/03
Part of the problem here is that the supporting characters... are far more interesting than the long distance yearning of Inman [Jude Law] and Ada [Nicole Kidman].
12/31/03
A romance set against the Civil War should be as passionate and horrific as its backdrop. All we get with Cold Mountain is a really funny Renee Zellwegger
12/30/03
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