The Colossus of Rhodes

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Vítor Pimentel de Oliveira V @RT19027067 03/14/2025 Sergio Leone's debut as director, Colossus of Rhodes is a better than average epic from that era. However, not without its faults. Rory Calhoun's Darios is excessively gallant and overconfident, the plot is thin and, frankly, a bit naive, and the romance it's not credible at all. However, you can already sense Leone's style in some shots. Besides that, the pacing, some twists in the plot besides and nice cinematography gives the movie some watching value. See more Lanfranco C @Lanfrancobz 02/16/2025 A too naive reconstruction of the story of Rhodes and it's colossus. See more Blu B @RT43513976 12/04/2023 It's disappointing how middle of the road this is considering the director. The only real good thing is the second half is better with more action, better pacing, and more things happen resembling a story. There is big production value behind this also with quite a bit of epic wide shots with massive scale and scope. The story is interesting also. The problem is somehow everything is just ok. The acting isn't anything special, even the main guy Dario just sort of blends in with everyone else. No one really sticks out in this. Second, it feels like things just sort of happen leading up to the rebellion and fall of the city and none of it is really heavily character driven. This is arguably the bieest issue that this needed more development of it's characters. The story is ok enough but there is no human touch to it. This leads to a very uneven pacing especially in the first half as it feels it just meanders along without really any focus at times until the second when it gets more focused. Even than though certain shots can go on way too long as sometimes this falls victim to the common trap of epics of self indulging in it's own excess to much. I can't really recommend this to anyone because it doesn't have any of Leone's hallmarks despite being a epic. Skip This. See more s r @ScottR 08/31/2018 So bad I turned it off. See more ashley h @ashleyhobgood87 01/05/2017 The Colossus of Rhodes is an amazing film. It is about Athenian war hero Darios who becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king while on holiday in Rhodes. Rory Calhoun and Lea Massari give incredible performances. The screenplay is well written. Sergio Leone did a great job directing this movie. I enjoyed watching this motion picture because of the adventure and drama. The Colossus of Rhodes is a must see. See more 10/16/2016 Sergio Leone is one of m all-time favorite directors and I'd actually never seen his first film, which I'd always read was nothing special and this sword-and-sandal epic lived up to that reputation. There are glimpses of the great filmmaker Leone would become with his next film "A Fistful of Dollars" with some nicely framed shots and some well staged action sequences, but this film is missing the elegance of his later films and also some of his more outlandish camera movements and zooms. Overall, it's a pretty standard sword-and-sandal flick that's only slightly better than average. See more Read all reviews

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