Captain Corelli's Mandolin Critic Reviews

The result is far from perfect, but to its many merits, add timing. You never get a movie with this kind of story in mid-August.Read the full review

Doesn't so much strike a lot of sour notes as fail to strike the right ones.Read the full review

Handsomely weathered John Hurt, as Pelagia's father, gives a performance of such unhackneyed dignity that it provides a moral compass for the action and helps to keep the ricocheting emotional content of the film in balance.Read the full review

In this film there is a scene where something is said in English pronounced with one accent, and a character asks, ''What did he say?'' and he is told -- in English pronounced with another accent.Read the full review

A movie that reduces history, as well as eros, to a postcard.Read the full review

Strikes too many false notes on the dramatic side to add up to a satisfying emotional experience.Read the full review

Given the polyglot nature of the cast, with actors from at least five countries taking their best shots at the English language, it's unclear why Cage felt he needed an accent or, stranger still, why it took him a reported seven months to come up with this one.Read the full review

A bungled screen version of Louis de Bernieres' cult novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin was doomed from the moment Nicolas Cage was cast as the "life-devouring," Puccini-loving hero.Read the full review

As the movie methodically plods forward on a screenplay (by Shawn Slovo) consisting entirely of clichés and watered-down exposition, it becomes sadly apparent that its only reliable asset is the gorgeous view.Read the full review