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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a vapid adaptation of a thoughtful book, fatally miscast and shorn of the source material's crucial sense of irony. Add it to the pyre of Hollywood's ambitious failures.
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If you're interested in a faithful visual adaptation of Wolfe's novel, be assured that this isn't it. June 28, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
If you're interested in a faithful visual adaptation of Wolfe's novel, be assured that this isn't it.
Jay Boyar
What a mess. June 28, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
What a mess.
Steven Rea
On film, Bonfire achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags. June 28, 2013 | Full Review…
On film, Bonfire achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags.
Peter Travers
If you loved Wolfe's book, you may very well hate the movie. If you simply liked the novel, you may be simultaneously entertained and disappointed by what De Palma and Cristofer have done to it. June 28, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
If you loved Wolfe's book, you may very well hate the movie. If you simply liked the novel, you may be simultaneously entertained and disappointed by what De Palma and Cristofer have done to it.
John Hartl
Certainly Wolfe's canvas might lend itself to a broad approach, but broad like Dr. Strangelove, not broad like the Three Stooges. June 28, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Certainly Wolfe's canvas might lend itself to a broad approach, but broad like Dr. Strangelove, not broad like the Three Stooges.
Sheila Benson
The film was cast wrong and written shallowly. June 28, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The film was cast wrong and written shallowly.
Gene Siskel
It's ultimately not difficult to see why The Bonfire of the Vanities was (and still is) regarded as an epic big-budget bomb... May 10, 2016 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
It's ultimately not difficult to see why The Bonfire of the Vanities was (and still is) regarded as an epic big-budget bomb...
David Nusair
Brian DePalma lapses into idle, slapsticky digressions. You don't get angry at what he's attacking, or defensive; you just get weary. June 28, 2013 | Full Review…
Brian DePalma lapses into idle, slapsticky digressions. You don't get angry at what he's attacking, or defensive; you just get weary.
Ralph Novak
Tom Wolfe's widely read satire becomes a tedious farce, turning one of the year's most anticipated movies into one of the most disappointing. June 28, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Tom Wolfe's widely read satire becomes a tedious farce, turning one of the year's most anticipated movies into one of the most disappointing.
Gary Thompson
Brian DePalma`s The Bonfire of the Vanities is a perfect example of how a best-selling book can be carefully altered, perceptively pruned and converted into an intriguing motion picture. June 28, 2013 | Full Review…
Brian DePalma`s The Bonfire of the Vanities is a perfect example of how a best-selling book can be carefully altered, perceptively pruned and converted into an intriguing motion picture.
Roger Hurlburt
Reduced to pure plot, the narrative is not so much a sendup of 1980s hypocrisy as an orgy of banal, juvenile mean-spiritedness. The irony of Wolfe's book becomes shrill, screaming sarcasm, unpleasant, and, worse, unfunny. June 28, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Reduced to pure plot, the narrative is not so much a sendup of 1980s hypocrisy as an orgy of banal, juvenile mean-spiritedness. The irony of Wolfe's book becomes shrill, screaming sarcasm, unpleasant, and, worse, unfunny.
In this heavy-handed and uneven treatment, De Palma drains Tom Wolfe's original story of its humour, and must shoulder the blame for its failure. June 28, 2013 | Full Review…
In this heavy-handed and uneven treatment, De Palma drains Tom Wolfe's original story of its humour, and must shoulder the blame for its failure.
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