Product: Moby Dick [VHS] (1998)
Rating: 3.0
I had hoped for more
Patrick Stewart is an incredible actor. I love his character in Star Trek and after the Star Trek movie where he finishes a quote from Moby Dick -- in a quiet, but passionate speech that he alone would stand agains the Borg, I expected more of this movie.But Patrick never reaches that deep, intraspective level. He is almost there when he realizes that he has driven Mr. Starbuck to contemplate murdering him. The tension between Mr. Starbuck and Capt. Ahab should have been more powerful. It was almost there, but not quite. I might have been an editing problem. It could have been a director problem. Not sure how or why this movie fell short, but it did. Mr. Starbuck plays his part well -- emotive and personal. He brings alive the man who "Can no longer follow his God and follow Capt. Ahab," but the tempo and rhytm of the movie just didn't keep the necessary tension.