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2006
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Rated PG-13 for an intense sequence of violence, sexual content and partial nudity.
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Oscar®-winning actor Sean Penn (Best Actor, Mystic River, 2003), two-time Academy Award® nominee Jude Law (Best Actor, Cold Mountain, 2003), four-time Academy Award® nominee Kate Winslet (Best Actress, Titanic, 1997), and Oscar® winner Anthony Hopkins (Best Actor, The Silence of the Lambs, 1991) star in this riveting story of a humble man's rise to political power and the destructive force of corruption and betrayal that would ultimately unravel his soul, based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Also starring James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo and Patricia Clarkson.
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© 2006 Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds 3A GmbH & Co. KG, Film and Entertainment VIP Medienfonds 4A GmbH & Co. KG and Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Lew Irwin
The remake of All the King's Men was no doubt produced with the noblest of artistic and social intentions, but the filmmakers have found no critical reward for their effort. The drama, based on the political career of Louisiana politician Huey Long, is simply overcooked, most critics agree. Well, "over-" a lot of things, according to Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News, who calls it "overacted, over-directed, over-written, over-photographed, over-musically-scored. And, oh yes, it's overwrought." Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun-Times calls it "an unholy mess," then adds: "That we occasionally get a glimpse of the crackling entertainment this movie could have been only makes it more frustrating when the story and the performances lapse into overwrought melodrama seasoned with some deep Southern camp." "Nothing in the picture works," writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times. "It is both overwrought and tedious, its complicated narrative bogging down in lyrical voiceover, long flashbacks and endless expository conversations. ... It is rare to see a movie so prodigiously stuffed with fine actors, nearly every one of them grievously miscast." And Joe Morgenstern sums up in his first words in The Wall Street Journal: "What a botch."
Reviewed by: MIDNIGHTWHITE on 2/20/2007 11:42:10 AM
GREAT MOVIE...SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR OSCAR...SEAN PENN IS GREAT ONCE AGAIN..
Lew Irwin
The remake of All the King's Men was no doubt produced with the noblest of artistic and social intentions, but the filmmakers have found no critical reward for their effort. The drama, based on the political career of Louisiana politician Huey Long, is simply overcooked, most critics agree. Well, "over-" a lot of things, according to Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News, who calls it "overacted, over-directed, over-written, over-photographed, over-musically-scored. And, oh yes, it's overwrought." Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun-Times calls it "an unholy mess," then adds: "That we occasionally get a glimpse of the crackling entertainment this movie could have been only makes it more frustrating when the story and the performances lapse into overwrought melodrama seasoned with some deep Southern camp." "Nothing in the picture works," writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times. "It is both overwrought and tedious, its complicated narrative bogging down in lyrical voiceover, long flashbacks and endless expository conversations. ... It is rare to see a movie so prodigiously stuffed with fine actors, nearly every one of them grievously miscast." And Joe Morgenstern sums up in his first words in The Wall Street Journal: "What a botch."
Reviewed by: MIDNIGHTWHITE on 2/20/2007 11:42:10 AM
GREAT MOVIE...SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR OSCAR...SEAN PENN IS GREAT ONCE AGAIN..
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Reviewed by: MIDNIGHTWHITE on 2/20/2007 11:42:10 AM
Reviewed by: downco on 2/14/2007 8:18:14 AM
Some of Penn's finest work. The production is excellent as are the performances of all the actors in this superb film. An engrossing story line, it is clearly Oscar material. A well earned 4 stars.
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