Taras Bulba
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Movie Reviews of Taras Bulba
Movie Review: Taras Bulba DVD Review
Summary: 2 Stars
Taras Bulba is a pretentious film with poor dialogue and phony characters. The only decent thing about this film is Franz Waxman's musical score.Movie Review: Good Kazak's fight bad old Poles
Summary: 1 Stars
Nice Costumes, very clean, neat and tidy Kazaks fight evil, wicked, bad, and nasty Poles. But how many times can you see the happy Kazak brotherhood dance, drink, whack someone with a sword from horseback before you want to say out loud, "Okay, I understand, I get it." This movie appears stuck in the afore mentioned rut and no amount of "Star Power" can pull it out,(not Yul Brynner, and/or Tony Curtis), or pretty scenery or horseback swordplay can change it.
This movie is about 30 to 45 minutes too long to be boring. There are many nicely filmed cavalry charges, (do forged steel sword blades sound like aluminum blades when struck together? Perhaps some sound effect improvement are also needed.). Yul Brynner sings something `Kazaky' sounding and it doesn't help The special effects for making the hole in Tony Curtis's Breast Plate armor was nicely understated and it doesn't help. The Kazaks don't loot the city after they defeat those bad Poles (that dealt with them treacherously) and it doesn't help. What might help is re-editing the entire flick. It might become a short subject but there is a lot of beautiful camera work, costumes, and scenes.
Movie Review: A good story used as source for a ridiculous film, which even the best of acting could not have saved
Summary: 1 Stars
I have read Nikolai Gogol's "Taras Bulba" and found the film with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner to be a tasteless, cheap parody. The film does not provide a historical background or even attempt to explain the socio-political realities of 17th century Ukraine, but uses the opportunity to heave opprobium on the Poles, who are treated with some understanding and respect in the novel by Gogol. The film includes situations that may add effect to the film, but are not part of the book - such as Bulba hacking off the Polish colonel's hand at the beginning of the film, the attempt of Andrei's classmates to castrate him, the idiotic "duel" between Andrei and another Cossack, which involves jumping a gorge, and the equally silly "picnic" scene with the young Polish lady and Andrei making pitiful attempts at folk dancing (the very premise of that scene is ridiculous to begin with). These scenes only cheapen the film; there are a few good scenes for Brynner, Kauffman and Curtis, but they are not enough to save it. Perhaps the Russians could do better, when they get around to it.Movie Review: Stick with Darkwing Duck
Summary: 1 Stars
After being taken in by other reviews, I was disappointed to find this a very thin plot and rather poorly executed drama. I couldn't much care for the downtrodden Cossacks or allegedly dastardly Poles... Stick with the same named character "Taurus Bulba"... from the Darkwing Duck Cartoon Darkwing Duck, Volume 1!
Movie Review: Garbage
Summary: 1 Stars
The movie is good, but this DVD was taken from a well used VSH tape. The video quality is poor. The audio is worse. I am glad that I didn't buy it and rented it instead. Wait for the restoration. That is if the film is available to restore.