Atrocious

Rating: 1/10 (27 October 1998)

I like to go to movies in the theatre and listen to the audience reaction.
One of my clearest memories is the audience laughing at the tearful finale, when Zhivago is basically tapping on the shoulder of everyone in Russia (hey,it's a small country) to get them to turn around, so he can see if they are Lara.
A pretty good measure of moviemaking failure, I'd say, when people laugh at the lead character's despair in the final scene.
Perhaps someday, Hollywood will do justice to a great work of Russian literature. This ain't it.