A Pepsi Commercial Sandwiched between Unimaginative Music.

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2002)

The fact that this materialistic, fabricated formulation is on the greatest movies of all time list is simply absurd. Baz Luhrmann has proven himself to be one of the greatest cinematic hack-manipulators in recent Hollywood History. Riding on the banner that Moulin Rouge is a "brave and highly orginal love story that revamps the Musical genre at the same time" pushed even critics to abandon their heads, and ignore the unfeeling and senseless music video direction, and unorginal songs that clashed with the film's setting, timeframe and design. By all means, I'm not trying to sound conservative here, but the fact that is this film is "groundbreaking" on any level is just insipid. IT WAS NOT EVEN THE BEST MUSICAL of the year (and Critics are right, they don't make many). Don't believe me, watch John Cameron Mitchell's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" which adds real depth, feeling, and patient, calculated and real Direction. Everything that Luhrmann's 130 Minute Music Video lacks (which was also done on a budget 12 times larger than "Hedwig's"). Every song in Mitchell's film is orginal too. Nuff' Said.