Legends of the Fall Reviews

Tween girls will swoon over this tear-jerker.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

[Pitt] casts such a saintly, beatific sheen over the proceedings that he seems to glow from within.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The part is a gift for Brad: he's a cowboy, soldier, adventurer and wanderer; impossibly glamourous and ludicrously far-fetched.

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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...

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As densely plotted as Legends of the Fall is, it's to the credit of the performers and craftsmen that the film escapes the abyss of melodrama and sentimentality.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

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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Magnificent melodrama.

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Epic frontier soaper rambles on and on.

| Original Score: 2/5

A rousing, epic miniseries crammed into two hours.

| Original Score: 4/5

Much too hokey to be enjoyed, even by soap standards.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's a man's world, but Pitt's star turn and the melodramatic underpinnings may appeal more to women.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

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.

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Nice...but a little unbeliveable.

| Original Score: 4/5

The Movie That Will Not Die

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Grand tale about passion, guilt and grief set in the wilds of Montana.

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Can be recommended to all the viewers hungry for movies that Hollywood knew how to make some thirty or forty years ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Predictable and inevitable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Though the admirable Quinn has the toughest role, Pitt carries the picture. The blue-eyed boy who seemed a bit lost in Interview With the Vampire proves himself a bona fide movie star, stealing every scene he's in.

Just like quality loo roll, it's long in duration and strong on technical quality. Unfortunately it's also soft on plot and characterisation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5