RainInRivendell

To me this movie was nothing special. It is a failed dramady with an easy to follow formula and a very melodramatic plot. Did anybody seriously not see the ending coming? While people might say that the predictability might add to the movie's "charms", I disagree. i doubt it was intentional. The Evelyn Couch story line was utterly pointless except to give the story a reason to be told. The filmmakers tried to add humor to the Couch's situation but it failed miserably. The overload of drama made each "twist" less exciting than the one before. It failed to make me cry, I cry in pretty much everything, and I couldn't care less what happened to any character at the end. While Jessica Tandy was phenomenal, the only true shining performance, the rest of the cast fell flat. Most flashback movies don't work. They don't bring the story to life and it is very distracting to go from one time period to another. Very few films have ever made that work, and this is not one of them. What attempted to be a great cinematic experience simply turned into a pretentious, overrated dud.

Ugh I saw this movie like 4 times in hotels in Italy because there were no other English movies. The plot line is bad, the acting his horrible on Keanu Reeves' part and it was just an all together bad film! I remember not wanting to see this while it was in theaters and now I know that I have good movie judgement because this was just a waste of my time. It was overly hyped as a good movie with a story line easy to follow! ALL LIES! i think the only reason this movie got made was because Tilda Swinton and Keanu Reeves were in it. I like Tilda Swinton and I think she is a good actress but Keanu Reeves just got worse and worse and worse. Rachel Weisz is good in basically everything she does (maybe not the Mummy but thats not relevant). I give this movie ** out of **********. Don't WASTE YOUR TIME!

I give this movie a 10 out of 10 because it is a non stop good time. I have watched this over 200 times ( no lie) and I never get bored! it is just go good! i love the actors, and the directing in this film. Heath Ledger is very believable as William Thatcher, and Shannon Sossamon has a fair entry into the film industry. The plot is very well constructed (with a few holes) but other than that I think that this is in my top 5 favorite movies. There is no arguing that you will fall in love with Ledgers character, and that you will hate Sewell's. Brian helgeland does a great job on the jousting sequences, making them look real and so you fear for the character. And the suspense of Adhemar's plot against Ulrich is an added bonus. Parts of this movie blow me away, like when he fights in the sword ring and when he is training with Roland and Wat. All in all this movie is insanely good, and is so good I have to make up a new word. Fantasmagorical