The Libertine
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Movie Reviews of The Libertine
Movie Review: I Do Not Watch Movies.
Summary: 5 Stars
I get bored easily with predictable plots, and vapid acting. I find Hollywood's standard drivel to be beyod contemptable.
I will own this film shortly. It an astounding piece of work, front to back, beginning to end. Not a weak actour among them,not a set that couldn't be exactly where they tell you it should be. A Tour De Force that all who participated in should be proud of for the rest of their days.
Do not walk into this expecting some heartthrob pin-up. This is a heavy, hard hitting, humourous and brutally honest story, told by true professionals at their peak.
I do not watch movies. This one I will watch over and over.
Movie Review: two problems with a near great film
Summary: 4 Stars
one-the deathbed conversion. they should always be suspect. researchers believe that the claim that wilmot had had one was fabricated to further the reactionary conservative political winds that were stirring at the time. second-the drivel music and sappy countertenor at the end. what tripe. a serious error in judgment that can only be blamed on the director. how could a director so committed to a visionary and individual style in progressive content and filmmaking make such a ridiculous and laughable stumble of the final scenes. given the themes of the story, and of the life of wilmot, it was repellent.
as to depp's performance, it was worthy of an academy award.
Movie Review: Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of Johnny Depp's best performances. This movie is very intense and emotional. The whole cast is brilliant and the make-up is phenomenal.Movie Review: "Do you like me now?"
Summary: 4 Stars
Johnny Depp lived and worked below my personal radar for years until one day I realized I enjoyed virtually every movie he's ever made. That's when I began observing his body of work. Over time, I have come to believe that he is quite possibly the finest American actor working today. He has taken quirky roles in offbeat films and made each one a signature piece of work. (His was by far the most interesting character in the drear CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, a film which had none of the charm of Gene Wilder's WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.) Depp finds the humanity inside each of his characters' eccentricities and makes us care about such oddballs as Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and, in THE LIBERTINE, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, who was a mainstay of the hedonistic Restoration court of Charles II. Depp warns us at the outset that, "You will not like me."
The real Wilmot was an alcoholic, whoremongering, drug-taking, likely bisexual poet and playwright, whose talent was obscured by his unbridled debauchery. Dying at thirty-three from rampant syphilis, Wilmot had spent years out of Royal favor for cruelly lampooning the King in verse and on stage. The Restored Charles, whose father had been beheaded in the Glorious Revolution, was, not unexpectedly, quite touchy on the subject of Royal respect (even though he was an amazingly prolific seducer of women from whose numerous illegitimate progeny came Princess Diana, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Camilla Parker Bowles, among many others).
Depp brings Wilmot back to life with a deft hand. Although we are given many opportunities to view the various excesses that Wilmot was so fond of, Depp's character is not merely a slobbish one-dimensional barfly and sexual epicurean in noble finery. Depp is able to project Wilmot's inner essences, and we come away with a view of a man who lived life on the edge even as he observed it with a jaundiced eye and treated all those around him to a constant shower of vitriol, knowing that most of them deserved no more. He largely spared the women he loved (as opposed to slept with) the acid that was rotting him from within, but was unable to spare them the consequences of their love for him.
A 21st century man in the 17th, Wilmot is a strangely familiar person, the type of instant celebrity that Hollywood revels in today. Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse. Well, two out of three ain't bad, and in THE LIBERTINE Johnny Depp touches the tragedy that makes up that style of life. No, you will not like John Wilmot, but you will understand him.
Movie Review: In a nutshell
Summary: 5 Stars
In an era where we are bombarded by hundreads of box-office-missile type of mainstream comercial films a lot of which vary little in their mold and presentation, The Libertine stands out as a true brilliant work of filmmaking.
Seeing how lenghty reviews abound, I'd just like to point out a few things that make this film great:
-Great aesthetic presentation.
-Great cast.
-Great musical score by Mr. Nyman.
-Great acting.
-Great story.
Can't really ask for more!
Kudos to John Malkovich and co. for producing this.