Beautiful travelogue, not much else

Rating: Null/10 (19 August 2001)

Well, after finally seeing Captain Corelli's Mandolin here in North
America (I noticed it was playing in France in June), I must say I
was very disappointed. I was hoping for an English Patient kind of
romance and got instead Moonstruck Moves to Greece. Nicholas
Cage is horribly miscast as the free-spirited captain, Penelope
Cruz is obviously gorgeous to look at, but doesn't quite hit the
emotional high notes that say, Kristin Scott Thomas did as the
woman torn between two lovers. At the end, I felt I had seen a
National Geographic documentary on the Greek Islands (beautifully shot by John Toll who also did Legends of the Fall and
Braveheart), but not too much else. Some nice touches of the
war-is-hell message, but at the end, not very satisfying.