A Truly Remarkable Film

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2003)

Recently bought the DVD, and took the time to really watch the film. For those who have never seen it properly before, it may seem a tad long and hard to keep up with the first time, or even the second. Watch it again, and you will know that it is one of the best films ever made. The magic element - the thing that ultimately makes this movie great - is Mr. Peter O'Toole. He portrays the legendary T.E.Lawrence, a man whose soul becomes captured by the desert and its people. He is a man who believes he can achieve the impossible, a man who believes he can unite and lead the independent Bedouin tribes to rise against tremendous odds and become a nation. Although Peter O'Toole comes across as somewhat odd in some of the pictures that I have seen him in, In Lawrence of Arabia he is simply... immense. The sort of performance that burns into the memory. In fact if all the other movies he had ever done were no good at all he could still be rightly considered one of the greatest movie stars of all time, thats how good this one is. The second magic element in this film is the desert itself. No movie before or since has captured it in nearly the same way although many have tried to emulate. Were talking leagues ahead here. The beauty of it will blow your mind. Give this movie a chance and you'll appreciate it for what I do now, a masterpiece.