As a glossy romance in dangerous times, this has all the classic elements and does a reasonably good job of marshalling people and events to its heart-wrenching finale.
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08/24/01
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
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Reviews Counted:114
Fresh:33
Rotten:81
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: The cinematography is gorgeous, but the movie plays it fast and loose with history and the novel it was adapted from. Mostly, the movie fails because the romance between the leads strains credulity and the story is largely uninvolving.
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $25,261,240
Synopsis: Academy Award (R) winner Nicolas Cage (City of Angels) and Penelope Cruz (All About My Mother) star in Captain Corelli's Mandolin, an epic tale about the enduring hope of love and the devastating... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Christian Bale, John Hurt
Director: John Madden
Reviews for Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Top CriticLacking any center, in its pandering heart the movie tries to be something for everyone.
08/27/01
Comes engagingly close to being the assured romantic epic you would want it to be.
05/04/01
The film's perfectly watchable, but it's never more than that.
02/09/06
A dramatic film, I'd wager, Roberto Benigni would enjoy.
08/16/01
While those who loved the book will likely bemoan the desecration of a great work, others will find Captain Corelli's Mandolin passable entertainment for a summer's day.
08/16/01
A surprisingly empty experience.
08/16/01
Una de las más frustrantes y decepcionantes historias románticas que se han hecho en mucho tiempo para la pantalla grande
10/29/01
Handsome as it is, Captain Corelli's Mandolin doesn't really connect.
08/17/01
Captain Corelli's Mandolin will find favor with nearly everyone who appreciates this kind of motion picture.
08/16/01
Cage sounds like an Italian waiter in a "Monty Python" sketch.
08/16/01
A film afraid to let down any part of an audience...often alienates the audience that would have embraced it; this is Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
08/20/01
Under any circumstances, Captain Corelli's Mandolin would be a pretty poor excuse for a movie.
08/17/01
What a droopy, disappointing film this is.
08/10/01
Top CriticNot as good as it might have been but better than the negative press it has received, which has unfairly doomed it to severe losses at the box office.
11/27/01
...feels as if it has been manufactured in a chop shop of former Oscar winners and nauseating Miramax 'prestige' puff pieces.
06/21/02
This is one of those films where the cast seems to go through their paces without really inhabiting their roles and where everybody has a different accent.
08/16/01
A sweet but flawed wartime romance with enough gorgeous scenery and quaint villagers to choke a horse.
08/16/01
Captain Corelli's Mandolin doesn't so much strike a lot of sour notes as fail to strike the right ones.
08/17/01
It's a wonder Corelli doesn't bring his gondola and striped shirt with him from Italy.
09/09/01
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