Not an Incredible Movie

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2002)

Based on some excellent reviews that I had read about this movie and the positive comments of a good friend of mine who saw it twice at the theatre, I thought Moulin Rouge! was going to be an amazing movie. After watching it, I thought it was a very unremarkable movie, maybe my expectations were too high.
It just did not appeal to me as a musical or a drama. I actually have to consider the movie a fantasy movie to justify the relatively high rating that I gave it. The best thing about the movie was Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, they were great, especially when they were singing. But I found the movie really hard to watch overall, I found the fast paced music video style sequences in the movie terrible.
The movie cost fifty-three million US$ to make, but it has only made an unremarkable fifty-eight million US$ in North America up until March 2002, this movie has really been over hyped. Moulin Rouge! is not for everyone, but some viewers sure loved it. More than 40% of the IMDb members that voted on this movie gave it a 10 out of 10. My rating is 7 out of 10.