Simply a superb masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 1999)

It truly is british from top to bottom. Well made from the beginning to the end with essential craftmanship and so utterly polished that it outshines almost any other movie in the world, grand and bombastic from overture to end-credits, beautifully filmed in Panavision 70 with lots of colossal mammoth-like scenes. Yet it is touching in a way big screen epics almost never are, or never were. For this motion picture is not just a production grande, it is also an intament tale of a human being.
The character development is wonderful, the views are terrifficly awesome(as widescreen-version on a fair TV or, preferably, at the cinema), the music is as stunning as it is suggestive and the acting is rock-solid.
I have no complaints about this movie, none whatsoever. It's so wonderful, you couldn't ask for anything else in a motion picture than you can find in this one(except women, of course!!!). Get a hold of it, find the directors cut widescreen version(accept no other) and sit back. You're in for the treat of your life.