This Is True Epic Filmmaking!

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2014)

Obviously we all know who Gandhi is. He was a powerful Indian leader who used peaceful tactics to free India from The British Empire. To this day, Gandhi is viewed as one of the greatest political leaders in the 20th Century. As a movie, Gandhi succeeds bog time. Director Richard Attenborough had a 20 year dream of making a movie about Gandhi, and he creates a powerful epic unlike any other, about as strong as the epics of David Lean. The cinematography is beautifully sweeping, there's tons of extras throughout that would likely be CGI today, and the best part, Ben Kingsley's performance as the title character. When we witness his reactions to tragic events, Kingsley makes it so authentic that we believe that the real Gandhi has returned from the dead. There were some parts, such as the reaction that I mentioned involving the slaughter of innocent civilians, that actually made me weep during these emotionally powerful moments. And that's what I want to see in an epic movie. Something that's exceptionally realistic and emotionally powerful. And that's what Gandhi succeeds as a film.