Over-rated testosterone extravaganza

Rating: 3/10 (1 March 2013)

This is a prestigious film distinguished by a large production budget and extended investment of time. The result is director David Lean's hallmark signature, i.e. a saga that is a lavish travelogue serving as backdrop for masculine interchange and conflict. I've tried to watch this film many, many times throughout the years and never managed to sit through to "The End." Peter O'Toole's performance comes off as the stereotypical, effete British colonialist, hardly an admirable character worthy of heroic accolade. One can say much, much more about the shortcomings of this film, which has been highly praised and festooned with awards. I will sum it up with this: "Lawrence of Arabia" is a not the great masterpiece it is considered to be, but one of the most over rated movies ever made. P.S. In the last fifty years, have never met one woman who liked this movie.