Captain Corelli's Floparoo

Rating: 6/10 (5 October 2002)

"Captain Corelli's Mandolin" just can't seem to get its genres together as it stumbles from comedy to romantic-comedy to drama trying to be a sometimes funny and sometimes serious WWII love story. I thought Bale, Hurt, and Cruz nailed their parts and was surprised to see Cruz got a Razzie nom. Cage was...well, Cage was Cage. His Italian accent sucked but his lousy performance probably had no better directing than the rest of the film and nobody ever accused him of being an actor or artist anyway. Bottom line; the film delivers some pretty typical Hollywoodish entertainment with beautiful scenery, some action, some romance, etc. making an okay couch potato freebie but not recommended as a rental. (C+)