The Four Feathers (2002)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 150
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 88
Though beautiful to look at, The Four Feathers lacks epic excitement and suffers from an ambivalent viewpoint.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 21
Though beautiful to look at, The Four Feathers lacks epic excitement and suffers from an ambivalent viewpoint.
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A.E.W. Mason's perennially popular tale of honor and adventure is brought to the screen yet again in this lavish period action-drama. In 1884, Harry Feversham (Heath Ledger) is a young officer-in-training in the British Army who is soon to graduate and is expected to be shipped of to the Sudan, where the King's military are battling Muslim insurgents who are attempting to overturn English colonial rule. Feversham, however, has developed serious ethical reservations about going along, and on the
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Heath Ledger
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Wes Bentley
Lt. Jack Durrance -
Kate Hudson
Ethne Eustace -
Djimon Hounsou
Abou Fatma -
Michael Sheen
Trench -
Alex Jennings
Colonel Hamilton -
Rupert Penry-Jones
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Kris Marshall
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All Critics (163) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (89) | DVD (23)
Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities.
Top CriticLedger does a great job in the action sequences and the more tender scenes.
It's a pretty compelling yarn, not to mention full of pretty pictures, and yet it could be so much more than that.
A movie that lacks the jingoistic bravura of earlier editions ... but hasn't replaced it with meaningful historical revisionism appropriate to our post-colonial age.
What's missing, crucially, is the passion required to make this unlikely tale work.
It's beautifully done, but there's not much of a point to it.
A decent film with some intense battle violence.
The Sahara desert, gorgeously photographed by Robert Richardson, displays the most personality in the entire picture.
It's cold, misguided, confusing, illiterate, boring, badly acted and flat-out laughable.
In this epic sweep from dusty, bloodied dunes to dainty British drawing rooms, little light is shed on wars, and what can be done about them.
Michael Schiffe and Hossein Amini's screenplay adaptation (is) as full of holes as the tracks of a camel herd. [published 9-19-02]
Ultimately, The Four Feathers is nothing more than a handsomely mounted escapist action flick.
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