The result is an admirable attempt that fails under the weight of its own ambition.
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06/10/05
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:9
Rotten:12
Average Rating:5.3/10
Rated: PG [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Jun 10, 2005 Limited
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Moritz Bleibtreu, Rade Sherbedgia, C. Thomas Howell
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12/10/05
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03/21/06
The movie gets historical with the warring factions in Persia, Hassan's attempt to assassinate the Sultan, and other Lawrence of Arabia style stuff in the desert.
11/11/05
The story behind the making of The Keeper is more inspiring than the film itself.
01/12/06
The movie's intentions are like the starry constellations that inspire the eponymous hero: out of reach.
12/15/05
Top Critic[A] plodding and pretentious historical drama.
03/22/06
Top CriticThe director approaches the enormity of his task with an earnest enthusiasm, offering a likable alternative to the assembly-line banality of so many family films.
01/13/06
An accomplished first film that manages to comment on the current situation in the Middle East while dealing movingly -- and in very human terms -- with the importance of heritage and history in contemporary life.
06/24/05
Top CriticA lovely-looking, capably made motion picture.
03/01/07
A reverentially pokey drama that plays less like a conventional movie than a lengthy series of hagiographic historical tableaux.
01/11/06
Top CriticAmbitious, heartfelt and grand in both its ideas and its pride of place (the Middle East), the film suffers from its virtues.
01/12/06
Top CriticFor those who know of Omar Khayyam, make the trip to the theater to see this one. If you're just curious, wait for the DVD.
11/03/05
Rough around the edges, it's still a formidable movie that's stunning visually.
08/19/05
Comes to us wrapped in hand-woven shawls of struggle and perseverance.
01/20/06
An overall satisfying experience.
06/09/05
While sumptuously beautiful, the film is often stilted and undermined by some painfully amateurish performances that no good intentions can smooth over.
01/13/06
The Keeper suffers from a surfeit of scattershot acting and clunky narrative devices that usher the viewer back and forth through time with all the subtlety of a culture clash.
12/31/05
More education than entertainment, Mashayekh's first feature length film tells a valid story but fails to produce on the promise of court intrigues and swordplay.
01/13/06
Would that good intentions counted for everything.
06/10/05
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