Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 96
Fresh: 57 | Rotten: 39
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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 14
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Enduring Love is director Roger Michell and screenwriter Joe Penhall's adaptation of Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel. Joe (Daniel Craig, who starred in Michell's previous film, The Mother), a college professor, is out on a romantic picnic with his long-time girlfriend, Claire (Samantha Morton), a sculptor. Joe seems about to propose marriage to Claire when their world is upended by a freak accident. A hot air balloon lands in the field behind them -- its passengers in obvious distress. Joe and a
Oct 29, 2004 Wide
May 3, 2005
$0.3M
Paramount Classics
All Critics (103) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (39) | DVD (14)
It's a genuinely intriguing thriller and a mystery with a most rewarding conclusion.
It's heady stuff, though stretched too far for convenience.
Though Ifans has the splashier role, Craig, last seen in Michell's previous film, 2003's equally provocative The Mother, is outstanding as a man whose philosophy cannot be reconciled with his feelings.
It's not entirely satisfying, but it's too intriguing to dismiss.
Full of hot air.
Penhall's screenplay captures the emotional isolation that grips people touched by cataclysm.
If you don't have the range to play anything other than the same sort of comedic role as an over-the-top human oddity, maybe you shouldn't try to ply your trade as a dramatic actor.
Daniel Craig gives a solid performance in the tradition of Hitchcock's wrong men.
A tale of obsession with less hot air than your average thriller.
'Enduring Love' -- at least until its final 20 minutes -- is considerably more intelligent and less sensationalistic than most thrillers of this type.
The notion that being stalked can lead to a spiritual rebirth is pretty goofy, but Enduring Love is skillful enough to make it seem like a reasonable proposition.
An iconoclastic meditation on human devotion that might as easily be condemning its titular emotion as lauding it.
A fatal lack of character development dooms Enduring Love as little more than a fleeting curiosity.
Wholly absorbing... subtly trapping us in the perspective of a beleaguered protagonist, who himself is trapped in an inchoate state of grief and fantasy.
A huge disappointment, Enduring Love the film is a poor adaptation of a pretty good book. It's totally miscast, Craig is wooden and Ifans plays his serious character as if it were a comedy. The first 15 mins are truly captivating but it rapidly goes down hill from then on. A real shame.
September 7, 2009Super Reviewer
The opening of this film is brilliant. I loved the set-up and the way that the story was set up. The way the film is shot and the overall look are great. Daniel Craig is really good in his role and he is supported by a nice cast (Morton, Nighy). There are even a couple of oh shit moments that really caught me off
July 5, 2009Super Reviewer
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