Oh, how disappointed I was...

Rating: 2/10 (8 November 1999)

SPOILERS Warning: If you haven't seen this, I guess I kind of give away the ending.
Unfortunately, I walked into "The English Patient" five minutes late. I missed the very beginning, in which a plane crashes in the desert, and one character heads out to find help for the other, badly wounded. After hearing about this film for months, and watching it steal the majority of that year's Academy Award, I was expecting something fantastic. So, the entire movie while I watched one guy trying to get help and bring it back for his girl, I wondered how they got there. To tell you the truth, I was bored out of my mind. Not only is the plot slow-moving, the character development and larger purpose of the movie is vague at best. The only thing that kept me watching through the entire excrutiating three hours was the suspense: what happened to these people? At the end, I realized no answer was coming, and what I had wondered all along was the movie's opening scene; there would be no exciting twist or revelation. If I hadn't seen it at the dollar theater, I would have asked for my money back.