Appalling

Rating: 2/10 (22 July 2001)

How could this boring, vulgar work win so many Oscars? How could so many people think it is a great movie? And how could the great Tom Stoppard be co-responsible for such appalling tripe?
To talk about the historical errors would be pointless, because the whole movie was one long rewriting of history. Not clever or original rewriting, but a farcical (in the sense of low farce) reworking of the life of our greatest playwright into the cliches of the 1990s love (or more correctly, lust) movie.
To be avoided like the great plague of 17th Century London.