Immortality (The Wisdom of Crocodiles) (2000)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 10
Stylish, but emotionally uninvolving.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
Stylish, but emotionally uninvolving.
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 4,002
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Stephen Griscz, the protagonist of The Wisdom of Crocodiles, is a handsome but enigmatic man of many talents. He is also an incurable womanizer, always searching for the perfect woman. But all his relationships end in tragedy, which arouses the suspicions of police officer Healey. One day, Stephen meets Anne, an engineer who is also a very strong woman and definitely much better than all the others. Anne is intrigued by Stephen's strange airs. But soon it becomes clear that only one of them will
Cast
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Jude Law
Steven Grlscz -
Elina Löwensohn
Anna Levels -
Timothy Spall
Inspector Healey -
Kerry Fox
Maria Vaughn -
Jack Davenport
Detective Roche -
Colin Salmon
Martin -
Rick Lamont
Toll Bridge Attendant -
Ashley Artus
Gang Leader
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All Critics (25) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (10) | DVD (7)
A philosophical thriller that's no less intriguing for being murkily theological and ceaselessly artsy.
Top CriticThe Wisdom of Crocodiles benefits from handsome production design (Andy Harris) and photography (Oliver Curtis).
Inoffensively glib and innocuously arty.
Raises the most profound issues about the difference between humans and animals, good and evil, truth and lies.
...so enigmatic and mysterious that by the time the movie's over, you still aren't entirely sure what just happened.
A chic modern vampire tale.
Not much actually happens.
Director Po Chih Leong and cinematographer Oliver Curtis certainly know how to provide visual splendor for this film without much of a pulse.
The plot is quite silly.
Audience Reviews for Immortality (The Wisdom of Crocodiles)
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- Steven Grlscz: Everything hidden is theft.
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- Steven Grlscz: Difficult, isn't it, doing the right thing?
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- Steven Grlscz: I'm doing research on how extreme emotional staes can cause the body to form crystals.
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- Anna Levels: I don't judge a book by its cover, I never look before I leap, I know that some things are better left unsaid, and that worrying is the devil's favorite pastime.
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- Detective Roche: It ought to be against the law not to have and vowels in your name.
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- Anna Levels: I like a man with a bit of mystery about him.
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Foreign Titles
- The Wisdom of Crocodiles (DE)
- The Wisdom of Crocodiles (UK)
This movie seems a little on the long side, even though it actually isn't, and an interesting spin on vampires is stretched a little thin, but on the whole, I didn't mind it.
Elina, as always, adds a quirky presence to this. She is definitely an underrated actress. Jude Law is pretty good too, and I don't generally say that, have not really liked him in anything since Gattaca.
Fans of the genre might enjoy this, although it is not especially violent and isn't a great deal of sex in it, which is unusual for a movie of this type. It is more of an arthouse take.