The entire film plays like a commercial for Brad Pitt. You can imagine half the audience wondering, 'Where can I get one of those?'
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06/24/06
Legends of the Fall (1994)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:25
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 14 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director Edward Zwick's epic romance, set against the backdrop of WWI and the wide sky and rugged terrain of Montana, stars Anthony Hopkins as William Ludlow, an idealistic retired colonel who... [More]
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond
Director: Edward Zwick
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Reviews for Legends of the Fall
Can be recommended to all the viewers hungry for movies that Hollywood knew how to make some thirty or forty years ago.
08/16/02
What needs to be epic often seems petty and small. Perhaps it was in compensation for this narrative inadequacy that the musical score grew to be sweepingly grand and intrusively ever-present.
01/01/00
The kind of movie that doesn't require much effort to surrender to and enjoy.
01/01/00
Top CriticGrand tale about passion, guilt and grief set in the wilds of Montana.
08/26/02
Much too hokey to be enjoyed, even by soap standards.
01/11/04
This is the kind of big, robust Western love story that just begs to be filmed -- which, come to think of it, it has been.
01/01/00
Top CriticJust like quality loo roll, it's long in duration and strong on technical quality. Unfortunately it's also soft on plot and characterisation.
04/17/01
Big, bombastic and in the hands of director Edward Zwick, a bit much. In fact, it seems at times like little more than an overblown television miniseries.
01/01/00
As directed by Edward Zwick, the yarn doesn't so much sweep as sprawl across the screen in all its panoramic idiocy.
01/01/00
Top CriticA thoughtful and occasionally powerful epic film. It is unusual to see filmmakers taking a risk on this type of film any more, but this one deserves to pay off.
01/01/00
A semi-successful attempt at grand, schmaltzy romantic melodrama, in the manner of 1950s movies like Giant and other works based on literature. Hopkins is hammy as the patriarch but Aidan Quinn and particularly Brad Pitt as his sons at least look right.
02/15/07
Mr. Pitt's diffident mix of acting and attitude works to such heartthrob perfection it's a shame the film's superficiality gets in his way.
05/20/03
Top CriticPredictable and inevitable.
10/09/01
The Movie That Will Not Die
03/04/03
Pitt is the only redeeming feature of the film; Pitt’s talents have gone relatively unnoticed since his debut in Thelma and Louise in 1991, and Legends should give him the notice he deserves.
01/01/00
t's muddled, bombastic, and often gets by purely on style points, yet for some reason, inexplicably, it also manages to be occasionally entertaining.
01/01/00
Unless you are a big fan of seeing hearts cut out of the bodies of animals and people or unless you feel you must see all of Brad Pitt's movies (he is major handsome), I can see no reason to see this film other than as a long travelogue.
01/01/00
Zwick seems to have taken Terrence Malick's gorgeous Days of Heaven as his model, but he lacks Malick's sense of geometry, and his aspiration to mythic quality feels more pretentious than heartfelt.
01/01/00
Edward Zwick, the director, and Susan Shilliday and Bill Wittliff, the screenwriters, are under the impression that they are bringing forth a tragic epic, not a silly melodrama...
08/14/09
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