Sharpe's Challenge
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Movie Reviews of Sharpe's Challenge
Movie Review: Sharpes Challenge
Summary: 4 Stars
I am an avid Sean Bean fan and it all began with Richard Sharpe! This next phase in his career is a nice touch to the Sharpe's saga. I thouroughly enjoyed this addition!!Movie Review: Sharpes Challenge
Summary: 4 Stars
If you like Sharpe you'll love this blend of old story and known characters blended to give a sharp storyMovie Review: Sharpe's return
Summary: 4 Stars
Nice to see Sharpe again. Didn't think the story line was as good as the earlier Sharpe episodes.Movie Review: Another great Sharpe Story
Summary: 4 Stars
Just as all the other BBC Sharpe movies this one is of the same high quality.Movie Review: time to hang up the tunic
Summary: 3 Stars
Since first seeing Sean Bean in TV reruns in 1999 in the role of Richard Sharpe, the lowly soldier who is given a field commission by Wellington for saving his life, I have been a devoted fan. Subsequently, I bought the whole series on VHS, some of the Sharpe novels & even several volumes of Napier's War in the Peninsula so I could better follow the action and Sharpe's character as he rises through the ranks.
Naturally, I was quite excited when a new episode, Sharpe's Challenge, appeared on DVD. It is based on 3 novels, which chronologically were set before the Peninsular (ie Napoleonic) War but the script has been re-worked so that it is set after the Wars, mainly I supppose so that the aging - but still handsome - Sean Bean does not have to play a twenty-year old.
The film has everything going for it - colourful locations in India, battles, skirmishes, elephants, explosions, old friends Patrick Harper & Romona, the Duke of Wellington, beautiful young women, dastardly villains, even Sharpe's old bete noire, the ridiculous Col. Simmerson. I give the producers 3 stars for effort.
And yet -- something is missing. Like so many hit productions, it has become a victim of its own success. It is all spectacle and no heart. I could not get emotionally involved in this film as I had in the earlier Sharpe series. It was - dare I say it - boring.
Nevertheless, the film is a must-have for all Sharpe fans, who I am sure will want to judge for themselves.
For myself, I think it's time Sharpe hung up his tunic, once and for all.