a mess

Rating: 6/10 (10 July 2001)

This is a highly over-rated, strangely beautiful, ultimately chilly mess of a film on whom the talents of several fine actors was wasted. Mr. Luhrmann has too much money and not enough patience. If nothing else, his frenetic editing left me dizzy, wanting things to slow down a bit (especially in the big production numbers) so that I could actually take it all in. The Roxanne Tango is amazing. See it at your own risk.