The Talented Mr. Ripley Reviews
Top CriticMatt Damon is simply not convincing in this role. Not only is his performance flat, but he is unable to generate any sense of menace.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
eFilmCritic.com
Ripley morphs into a well-meaning kid who yearns to be somebody. He's deprived, not depraved.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Familiarity is the watchword of this overblown opus, which neglects holes in the plot to play up its postmodern theme of identity as pastiche -- a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Combustible Celluloid
The Master of Suspense would never have turned in a movie this sloppy.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Big Picture Big Sound
The Talented Mr. Ripley is lovely wrapping without much to say.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Moviola
Lo que pudo haber sido una buena cinta de suspenso se convierte en otro remake más de los que ya estamos acostumbrados a ver
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
In terms of psychological profundity, it isn't one millimeter deep.
San Diego Metropolitan
It's a good ride. If you like a cat-and-mouse game, you'll like this.
Needcoffee.com
Instead of reaching to Hitchcockian heights of suspense and wonder, we are instead bogged down with a Tom Ripley that is more Alex Forrest than Norman Bates.
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| Original Score: 2/5
CinemaSense.Com
The film was neither dark enough to horrify, nor emotionally engaging enough to really touch us, and Matt Damon's acting left us both non-plussed.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Film Written Magazine
A sub-Hitchcockian runaround.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
PopMatters
It is a suspense film released by Miramax over the holiday season for maximum financial and Oscar-related benefits.
It's a sign of how watered-down the movie is that only the supporting actors have any bite.
Hollywood Report Card
But like Ripley and his mission, this gorgeous film sabotages the bizarre journey it originally offered.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Minghella isn't going back to the modest style and the organic emotion of Truly, Madly, Deeply, his first and still his best film.
Perhaps at 90 or so minutes, it would have been the Hitchcockian thriller that it isn't at the beginning but turns into. At two hours and 20 minutes, there's too much of the film that feels like reiteration.
San Diego Union-Tribune
About as facile and sidewinding as its main character.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Simply put, we miss Dickie. Minghella too successfully sucked us into the young playboy's world; talented or no, Mr. Ripley makes a dull substitute.
Irish Times
