Incoherent Story!

Rating: Null/10 (2 March 1999)

I found this film boring and pretentious. The director is trying to con the viewer into believing that we are witnessing a "great love story". But it is a love story involving one-dimensional, cardboard cut-out characters acting within a plot that is totally incoherent and impossible to follow.
Some elements of the plot were just plain ridiculous. Why were they flying around in a civilian aircraft in the middle of the North African battle zone? And why was the English patient still being carted around Italy years after he was injured in North Africa? The film made no attempt to clarify these plot elements. Yet it still expected us to be moved by the "great love story". What a nerve!