Nice sceneries, beautiful landscapes, ludicrous storyline...

Rating: 3/10 (6 August 2005)

This movie starts off real promising but declines quite rapidly, and goes into a steep dive near the end.
The rivalry amongst the brothers, the urge to prove themselves, their feelings towards one girl. The stage is set for a grand spectacle, also supported by the quite impressive cast with a lovely Julia Ormond as the cherry on the cake. But as the movie progresses, the storyline becomes thinner and when Sir Hopkins start pulling his ogre face, it's faith is sealed. As in the storyteller's last words: 'It was a good death'.
If this movie had been put out as a documentary I'd say: fine job, but I think it crumbled under it's own inflicted weight.
Oh well, thank god there are other and better movies out there in the void ;) If you're a Hopkins fan, go and see 'The remains of the day' if you haven't already, that's what I'd call a rocksolid classic!