The Fall Of The Roman Empire (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 179 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-04-29 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Genius Products (TVN) |
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Movie Reviews of The Fall Of The Roman Empire (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)
Movie Review: Fall of the Roman Empire: An Epic Before Its Time
Summary: 4 Stars
After watching the excellent "Fall of the Roman Empire," it is perfectly clear where "Gladiator" stole many of its ideas and themes. The great director, Anthony Mann, who made this movie following the immense "El Cid," again works on a vast canvas and what scenes he conjures up! "Gladiator" tries to do this with new digital technology and with lesssor results. Alec Guiness is wonderfully cast as the philosopher-emperor, Marcus Aurelius, and when he's on the screen, ancient historical thought comes alive. Stephen Boyd is fine but just more of a gentle Roman general than his wonderfully evil Messala in "Ben-Hur." Sophia Loren is luminous but for some reason her director(Anthony Mann) gets her to sleep-walk through two epics in a row and have unconvincing tears gather at her tear ducts. Mann knows how to handle great armies and this film is full of wonderfully imagined battles, marches into cities, and pomp and violence. It is a long movie with some slow spots, especially when Guiness dies, but Christopher Plummer as Commodus completely makes me forget Joaquin Phoenix in "Gladiator," for Plummer is a great actor who gives Commodus so many facets and watch his relationship with Boyd and their final fight to the finish and you'll see where the seeds of the ending to "Gladiator" were sown. Are all Germans blonde? In this movie they are all blonde and rather ridiculously portrayed, as if the director was looking for a certain "barbarian" look. If they were that stupid and unsavory, how did they fight to bring down an empire? We get some ideas here how Rome changed. James Mason plays a pupil of Marcus Aurelius and he also is a great actor and his torture scene is strangely moving. Dimitri Tiomkin's music score blares and blares and is good but not up to the standards of say an Alex North or Miklos Rozsa, both masters at bringing history alive through music. There seems like so much potential for a great film here but it is a hit or miss film with some great acting, great photography, sets, and feel for its time, when many forces were swirling about to bring down the Roman Empire from within and from unknown machinations.It is well worth buying and to adding to anyone's video collection, who relish ancient history well told on the screen.