The Beach stands for passing your time rather lazy

Rating: Null/10 (16 March 2000)

This movie was pretty okay I guess but the start was awfully slow. I haven't read the novel but a friend of mine who did read the novel said that the movie was quicker in a lot of ways compared to the novel. The first hour there's nothing more than enjoying the great shots of Thailand. I loved some of the special cinamatographic effects a lot. DiCaprio plays rather well but I have seen him play better ('What's Eating Gilbert Grape', 'The Basketball Diaries'). And some of the almost psychedelic gibberish of director Boyle too much were focused on reminding the audience this is an alternative movie director we're dealing with. The tension in the movie was added in weird placed and couldn't really be maintained for a long time. I'd like to give this movie a 7 out of 10, okay because of the nice images and the nice effects and the rather pleasant music a 7.5 out of 10.