Nice to watch for external reasons!

Rating: 4/10 (30 March 2000)

English Patient (The)
DIRECTION 99% Soooo good and clear that you will want to watch how things are presented to you than thinking about the movie's plot or sub-plots; even the acting qualities don't match up to the cinematography.
ACTING % Yes! this is good and fine with emotional turns and such like!
EDITING/SPECIAL EFFECTS p% The effects are spectacular, however with editing this could have almost halved the movie's length.
PLOT G% This is a BIG weak point of the movie. It's great to look at things to attract the viewer's attention. But leaving an after taste of moral bankruptcy in the mind. Can you support characters you feel sick with? Is love worth killing thousands on the whelm of corrupted passions and adultery? If this is true you should look deep within yourself and ask What is LOVE in the first place?' A far cry from romantic movies of yesteryears! Is LOVE more important then people's immediate lives?...... it's quite clear in this context it isn't and it has no long term planning or virtue.
STRONG WORDS AND VIOLENCE ETC % Is strong in places. But what make it worse is that moral wrongness through the movie helps to make any foul words or scenes seem even more replusive.
MUSIC % Don't let your senses fool you into believing in that impossible version of love.
SOUND % Creates atmosphere to fool your senses this is a true romantic movie from the old days........ but if you believe your senses, then the movie has achieved its aim of brainwashing you into a corrupted form of love and relationships. Did you notice?
HOOKABILITY % When you see the desert and scenery you will want more!
LASTABILITY T% The attraction of the landscape will stay with you which is the only thing stopping you from walking out of the cinema from sheer unadulterated boredom!
OVERALL 6% Nice to watch for external reasons. Now who in their right mind would marry someone for that reason alone? Why if you did you deserve to have a hard and miserable time in life...... God did not give you a brain for you to use only one part of it did HE!? So why waste your gift and your time being absorbed and brainwashed when there are better films available?