Too Many Notes

Rating: 6/10 (1 October 2007)

. . . That's the way the Director's Cut struck me. Simply too much of a good thing, especially toward the end when the drama should be nearing its wrap up. We have extraneous scenes that only confuse momentum toward a dramatic finale.
As for the film itself, it seems fundamentally skewed, with the author taking what appears little more that a footnote in a Mozart bio, and blowing it up to enormous proportions. The result is long on entertainment, short on history.
Some films benefit from director's cuts; Amadeus does not. Fortunately, the studio cut version remains the better choice.