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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 33
Rotten:82
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Consensus: The cinematography is gorgeous, but the movie plays it fast and loose with history and the novel it was adapted from. Mostly, the movie fails because the romance between the leads strains credulity and the story is largely uninvolving.
Theatrical Release: Aug 17, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $25,261,240
Synopsis: Academy Award (R) winner Nicolas Cage (City of Angels) and Penelope Cruz (All About My Mother) star in Captain Corelli's Mandolin, an epic tale about the enduring hope of love and the devastating brutality of war, set amid the Italian... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Christian Bale, John Hurt
Director: John Madden
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Reviews for Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz are ill-matched, and the range of heavy accents is distracting.
09/19/08
Top Critic Strikes too many false notes on the dramatic side to add up to a satisfying emotional experience.
08/07/08
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02/25/04
A romance as spectacular as this novel is, it still has a difficult job making the leap to the screen.
05/20/03
...Touching and at the same time brutal, brimming with the emotional conflict that surges within its characters.
02/08/03
Gorgeous to look at and well-played, it's definitely watchable, yet strangely uninvolving.
10/30/02
A lot of talent was squandered on this incoherent grab bag of war-movie moments.
10/15/02
A historical drama that simply fails to make convincing human connections.
10/10/02
Here's a film with all the right ingredients which somehow manages to taste bland as a hell.
09/10/02
The stunning look of this film took my breath away and overcame its shortcomings for me.
08/02/02
Yet another WWII love triangle that suffers from bad acting, but looks great!
07/09/02
...feels as if it has been manufactured in a chop shop of former Oscar winners and nauseating Miramax 'prestige' puff pieces.
06/21/02
The Greek tourism board couldn't have turned out a more persuasive commercial. Buying the various twists and turns of Shawn Slovo's screenplay, however, is more difficult.
06/09/02
La novela, disponible en cualquier librería, es una gran realización; desgraciadamente al llevarla a los 24 cuadros por segundo, perdió mucha de su fuerza.
06/08/02
The movie duplicates exactly my experience with the book, although I must say I was thankful to be spared serial outbreaks of hearty Greek dancing.
01/22/02
Top Critic Cage's ancestors may have come from the Old Country, but he's no more Italian than Franco-American SpaghettiOs.
01/06/02
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