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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:39
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Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: While decidedly imperfect, Bernardo Bertolucci's epic is still a feast for the eyes.
Synopsis: Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi, the Manchurian emperor of China who ascended... [More]
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Dennis Dun
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematic biography of Emperor Pu Yi is an astonishing, ravishing and smashing film... And it's a glorious production which won 9 Oscars - that's every major category for which it is eligible
Top CriticThe best I can say for it is that it is a smart epic, and I think it will age very well.
John Lone is superb as the sad mediocrity; and if spectacle finally triumphs over sympathy, it is not without a decent struggle.
One of those irresistible movie entertainments that works on so many different levels and offers so much for the senses to savor that it is likely to intimidate some people even more than it did 11 years ago.
Stunning opulence dazzles the eye.
There's no doubting its spectacular richness and heartfelt, deeply satisfying storytelling.
Top CriticBoth an eye-opening epic and an intimate portrait of a man who never really tastes the joys of freedom.
Works the brain in two-part harmony: the melody skids effortlessly across the historical timeline of the Ching dynasty, China's last, and the harmony part is all aesthetic appeal... [Blu-ray]
The Last Emperor is like an elegant travel brochure. It piques the curiosity. One wants to go. Ultimately it's a let-down.
Top CriticMesmerizing, Oscar-winning, fate-filled journey to a vanished time and place.
Everything involving the life of Pu Yi was a waste. Everything except one thing: the notion that a single human life could have infinite value.
Top CriticBertolucci's gorgeous and seductive The Last Emperor imbues this powerless and constantly thwarted figure with a resolute if melancholy grace.
We need more than elegant parallels and lavish production values. We need tension, characterization, drama.
Top CriticIt is quite a good film, but it is in some ways very flawed.
Though boasting stunning photography by Vittorio Storaro (who shot in the Forbidden City), Bertolucci's beautifully crafted saga suffers from episodic text, incoherent story, and lack of truly epic hero at its center.
That rare breed of film that is both pure Oscar bait and a thoroughly compelling work.
An involving look at the life of an emperor forced to give up all that he knew only to realize he never had everything he wanted.
Constantly absorbing and tremendously interesting.
Top CriticWe never question the integrity of the historical moment in the film, but we do question our patience.
The small screen doesn't quite do justice to the rich visuals but with an incredible story and fine performances, it is still a compulsive and moving epic.
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