Augustus
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Movie Reviews of Augustus
Movie Review: Wretched
Summary: 2 Stars
I couldn't finish this. It was full of cliche, clumsy exposition and had no real sense of humor. Steer clear of this one.Movie Review: Terrible!
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm always suspicious of one-star reviews. It sounds like somebody has an axe to grind. I read some negative reviews about this movie but I bought it anyway. (Used, fortunately, at a low price.) Well. A one-star movie this definitely is. It has "made-for-TV" and "low-budget" written all over it. The sets vary in quality from pretty good to really bad (a Roman camp looks kind of like a corrugated pole barn without a roof). The acting is wooden, to put it mildly. But the really bad part is the script. It's about ninety percent speeches. By that I mean that everything everyone says is a stock cliche, like "The greatness of Rome is more important than the greatness of our family!" At no point does anyone say anything unexpected or funny or interesting or striking. Cliched speech after cliched speech.
Another really unpleasant thing about this movie is the painfully obvious way that all of the sound was re-done after the filming. It always seems like you're watching a movie whose images are disconnected from the sound. And the sound effects are relentlessly bad. When troops are digging, there is a perfectly rhythmic clinking sound. When small children are playing, they simply keep saying, "Yay! Yay! Yay!" When Augustus has a cough, boy does he have a cough. It's hard to put this into words, but if you see the movie, you'll know what I mean. Plus, throughout the movie there is a symphonic score playing, vague and repetitive and not at all interesting, sounding suspiciously like the kind of symphonic soundtrack you'd hear while playing a computer game about Rome.
At least a game lets you turn the music off!
It's the awful, clunking script, along with the awful, clunking soundtrack, that really doom this movie. It's hard to say whether the actors are really as bad as they seem, or if they were in a hopeless situation.
I watched about two-thirds of this monstrosity before I finally gave up. I kept hoping there would be at least a few scenes that would relieve the tedium.
Denied!
Movie Review: A Waste of Three Hours
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie committed the sin of not letting the facts get in the way of a good story. Julia was not banished for adultery with one man. She was banished for having hundreds of affairs with half the men in Rome. Her children did not die of fever. One died in a boating accident and one was poisoned, by Livia. Julia wanted to marry Tiberius. Tiberius did not want to marry her because it meant he had to divorce the wife he loved.
I could go on and on. The movie did not touch on how Augustus died. He died because he was poisoned, by Livia.
The sets were second rate, the acting (other than Peter O'Toole) was totally unconvincing and the story was not faithful to history. Aside from that? Well, I still think I wasted 3 hours of my live
Movie Review: did Augustus know Christ?
Summary: 1 Stars
There are good moments. Livia is very well characterized, either by the plot and by the actress. I enjoyed it ,unless at Augustus "grand finale"monologue, saying "it was my kingdom that testified the birth of Our Lord Jesus", as if Augustus himself did know Christ "Himself". What a childish pedagogycal view,by all Gods and by God s sake. This anachronism(forgive my English)is the same as a (soviet)film about Tsar Alexander II telling audience Josef Stalin was born during his reign.
Flavio J. Morsch, Brazil
Movie Review: Wow, this was bad.
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm a big Peter O'Toole fan and a big Roman history buff, but I can't believe how bad this was. I can only assume he was in need of a payday. Yes, it was hugely inaccurate (but that's forgivable to move a story along), but the script and acting were laughably bad. I honestly can't believe some people gave this good reviews.