Rouge for all the wrong reasons

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2001)

What's up with Baz Luhrmann? Each new film gets faster and faster. The opening 40 minutes not only had my head spinning, but several times during the remainder of the film I had to stop up my ears, the pain was so great! Please Baz, give us something we can see, not something flashing by so fast that we have to guess at what we saw. And some originality too. Ripping off your Act 1 set from your 1990 production of "La boheme" (Christian's rooftop apartment) doesn't pass as a tribute, tip-of-the-hat, or homage with me.