Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Rating: 3/10 (11 September 2006)

My Mum said that I would prefer to watch this, (rather than Jack Nicholson's Wolf at the time), and I wonder if she was right. This unfortunately I did not find all that great, even from director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love). It is all about Nicolas Cage as Captain Antonio Corelli and Penélope Cruz as Pelagia who meet each other in a city involved in the Second World War, and they fall in love slowly, and there a lot of German Nazis about. That is pretty much it. Also starring John Hurt as Dr. Iannis and Christian Bale as Mandras. The things I do kind of like about it though are Cage's Italian accent, the moments where he plays his three stringed instrument (the mandolin), and that bit on the beach where they blow up a big round thing. Apart from that, pretty pointless watching it. Adequate!