The Acting is great but the movie drags on forever!

Rating: 8/10 (16 August 2001)

Moulin Rouge is quite and intriguing new style of film making that caught my eye from the start of the movie. Nearly a thousand different frames fly by your eyes in the beginning of the movie moving from one picture to the next. If you are not alert while watching this movie, you will be visually dazed. The story line is nothing out of the ordinary. Two lovers battle over the same girl and you can pretty much predict the ending except with a little twist.
Many people walked out of the theater crying but the movie didn't seem to hit me that much. The visual effects are interesting but the movie seems to bounce around way to much. I found myself rubbing my eyes trying to focus on what was going on but it was hard. The first half of Moulin Rouge is the best part of the movie in my opinion. It is gracefully funny and entertaining. The second half moves along extremely slow for over an hour going back and forth about how much each person loves the girl. It made me sick and wanting to run out of the theater. I thought the ending was never going to come.
The acting was superb! Nicole Kidman as Satine does a fantastic acting job throughout the film. I wouldn't be shocked to see her nominated and winning a best actress award when the oscars come around. Ewan McGregor also does a great job acting. Though a singing voice is patched in over his because after this movie is a musical.
Overall, I was entertained for the first half of the movie but then the love story took over and I started to slide down my chair. The movie moves really fast and at times is quite tedious. If you like love stories and like movies where you cry (girls), you will like this movie.