The book is better

Rating: 1/10 (17 April 2006)

Please never watch this film, at least not until you have read the book and savoured its exquisite language and evocative imagery, which a screenplay simply cannot do justice to. They also change the ending in the film which means that the plot loses a lot of its emotive power. The only thing which is good about the film is the musical score, which isn't bad, and which, of course you have to imagine in the film. Nicholas Cage's acting is truly awful, he is wooden and yet cheesy at the same time, you cannot fall in love with him the way you can with the literary Captain Corelli. The book will make you cry for page after page, and then shock you in to laughing just when you don't feel that it is possible, the film simply fails to achieve this level of emotional involvement.