Don't waste your time!

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2002)

I hated this movie from the beginning to the end! I tried to keep an open mind throughout the meaningless insertion of modern songs, which have no place in this movie! How are we supposed to "suspend our disbelief", as the filmmakers want us to do in order to put ourselves into this timeframe and truly enjoy and BELIEVE the plot, the characters, the dialogue.......when we are constantly bombarded with such a horrible and disbelieving soundtrack?
Granted, Nicole Kidman looked gorgeous and has a nice singing voice, and Ewan MacGregor is easy on the eyes and ears, BUT I winced through the entire movie when it first came out on pay-per-view on my cable company! It was so bad, I demanded my money back! I couldn't stand to watch the entire thing.......I turned it off (to another channel) about halfway thru it! I have since watched (and tried to enjoy the second time around) this movie, but it still leaves the same impression with me.
The basic story of love, truth, beauty, etc. is a solid base for a movie, but this was and still is, a very disappointing movie...on many levels. For those of you who loved it, more power to you! Different strokes for different folks! :-)
From the looks of these reviews, there are many of us who hated it! You know what the plot was, from reading other reviews so I won't rehash it here. This is the only Nicole Kidman movie I didn't like, so far anyway.