9 Oscars? The Academy must be in pretty bad shape...

Rating: 1/10 (26 October 1999)

I hated it. let me tell you why:
The story is absolutely boring, the characters are dull and almost 3 hours of this is plain cruel! Ok, so the cinematography was good and visually it's pretty impressive - very WEAK motives to withstand 160 minutes of torture. Not even the acting was worth it! I found myself looking constantly at my watch and the only reason I didn't leave about 1 hour into the movie was because I went to see it with a group of other people. And guess what? - when we got out, I found out that EVERY ONE OF THEM was thinking the same!

I've read some comments on this movie, explaining in great detail what it is that makes it 'One of the Greatest'... one of these comments was almost as long as the movie itself. A word to those people: if a movie has to be explained so thoroughly to be enjoyed, it's because it's crap! Although it's true that, nowadays, most films provide easy answers to easy questions and a little 'depth' is welcome, this is deffinetly NOT the way to achieve it - 'The English Patient' wasn't deep. It was DRY.