A lot to swallow

Rating: 7/10 (15 November 2003)

"The English Patient" is by all accounts a huge movie which has received so much commentary over the past 7 years that there's little point in contributing to the noise. The problem I had with the film was simply it wasn't believable. Everyone in this film does extraordinary and incredibly stupid things, all in the name of force feeding you the film's melodrama. Good in all respect save perhaps it's length and difficult buy-in (I kept wishing he'd just die and get it over with) "The English Patient" has been carefully tweaked to make it easy to swallow. So, if you haven't seen the film yet, be prepared to have to chug-a-lug a whole lot of movie for only a moderate payoff. (B)