Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

robert-temple-1 This is an amazing film. How could I have missed it until now? Well, better late than never. Directed with sizzling intensity and flair by the Australian Gillian Armstrong, it pairs Ralph Fiennes as Oscar with Cate Blanchett as Lucinda, when they were at their most youthful, zestful, and charming. It is a kind of gnomic comedy, but it is also a sweeping drama. In fact, it defies all categories. Seeing her as she was then, and thinking of her as she is now (solid, established, accomplished), my breath was taken away by the youthful and shameless vivacity with which Banchett here makes the screen ripple with skittish, playful laughter and merriment. Blanchett and Fiennes play two oddballs, whose childhoods are briefly but effectively sketched, in this strange tale set in the 1840s and based on a novel by the Australian novelist Peter Carey. There is a narrator's voice, that of Geoffrey Rush, who tells us about them as we follow them through their lives and discover how they meet. From then on, their story is shared. They both have the same single vice, being pathological gamblers. They will bet or wager on anything, compulsively. This is treated very much in a comic fashion. There is a great deal of astonishing cinematography of the wilds of New South Wales, especially of a place called the Clarence River Valley. At times, it is almost like watching a wildlife film, with Oscar and Lucinda as the creatures with the strange habits. They are so obsessed with gambling that they forget to fall in love until rather late in the story. Rarely have an actor and actress been so perfectly paired as these two in this film. They play off each other as wittily as William Powell and Myrna Loy in the Thin Man films. So wonderful are they together that the world missed a great chance in that they did not make a string of films together, instead of only this magnificent

ragne I love Cate Blanchett and also admire Ralph Fiennes's acting skills. They are both superb actors and i was thrilled to see them together in a film. But i do wish they would've picked a more interesting project.This movie was so mind numbingly slow and boring that it's a disgrace to their careers (in my humble opinion).Sometimes movie can be a bit of a bore plot-wise, but it might have something in it that makes it worth your while. Actors do a magnificent job with character development; music score is specially outstanding or cinematography very good etc. Well, this movie was completely average. Acting was OK etc, but all in all i consider these two hours a waste of time. The movie left me no emotions - except maybe perhaps a pressing wish to go to IMDb.com and write a warning review.5/10 points

William James Harper This is a beautifully filmed movie about absolutely nothing. Happily, I saw it on television or I would really have felt cheated. The only reason I watched it to the end was to see how many anachronisms, absurd improbabilities and historical inaccuracies the film would commit; there were enough to keep me slightly amused for about an hour. After sixty minutes of so, the movie seemed to drag on for ever because it was so full of nonsense that would never have happened in Victorian times or any other time for that matter. Just being beautifully shot wasn't enough. What a waste of a fine cast! That may be the thing that got me most vexed about this movie.

ekelks Why hasn't this movie been released on DVD? If I'm wrong, please correct me.The palette of colors, the wondrous settings, the cast -- the beauty of Ralph Fiennes eyes, Cate Blanchette's cheekbones --, the way nature and industry, religious piety and intemperance conflict and coalesce is too magnificent to describe in a short review. See the movie and read Peter Carey's novel.