As Uninvolving as it gets...

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2002)

Although the visual panache and punchy editing may entertain or amaze/amuse for the first 20 minutes, the extended music video that is 'Moulin Rouge!' quickly becomes tiresome and wearying. How anybody could muster even the slightest interest in the ultimate fate of the two principals is beyond me as Luhrmann's preferred style (dazzling though it may be) has the disadvantage of driving us away rather than pulling us in. Big, Brash, Amazing, perhaps, but ultimately (I fear) cold, dumb and futile.