Reviews

One of the biggest history flops. Why? It's not easy to answer. Madonna has just become the queen of pop thanks to her top-selling album "Like A Virgin" and she has already been considered a hot actress thanks to the huge success of "Desperately Seeking Susan". So everyone was waiting for her next step. The following album left everyone breathless: "True Blue" became her greatest success ever selling over 23 millions copies, but her next movie was going' to be one of the biggest flop of movie industry. Her partner was Sean Penn, then her real life partner ( they got married the previous year), the director was the legendary member of The Beatles George Harrison, but the movie was a disaster since the beginning: she described it as a surviving test, 'cause weather conditions were terrible and paparazzi were always following them ( Madonna and Sean Penn) wherever they were going. She states: " We were very disappointed. We want to make a love movie, they cut all dramatic scenes and make it an action movie. They have cut all my best scenes, my character seems to be without personality now". Sean Penn said to his friend Chrissie Hunde: "Please don't watch it, as you're my friend and I don't want you to watch it". For all those thing, I recommend it!

Boring, dark, nasty, and too long but in all this an incredibly good Madonna. The critics asked themselves how she could be so good and were truly worried about it, but fortunately the movie completely failed at the box office. I love Madonna but I admit that I wasn't able to watch this movie.. Iìve tried it twice, but both times after a mid-hour I've stopped it.. It's just too dark, disgusting and cruel and that poor Madonna, bit and humiliated all the time! The example that a good-acting can't make a good movie if the script is weak. Madonna, another time chooses a wrong script, but at least nobody has said that in this movie she can't act!

Madonna has found her role. She's absolutely perfect in the part of Evita. Her voice never been so clear, strong and beautiful. She has changed eyes' colour and teeth for the performance and she has entered the Guinnes World Book of record to be the actress who had wore the largest number of clothes in a movie. The movie is perhaps too long but it's very well done. Madonna won the Golden Globe as Best Actress, but the Academy didn't even give her a nomination, and that's really a scandal. How is it possible an actress who won the Golden Globe isn't nominated to the Oscars? The unique reason was that her name was Madonna. By the way this musical witnesses Madonna's talent as an actress but it shows also that the quality of the movie depends mostly on the script: with a great script ( in this case Andrew Lloyd Webber musical ) you can do a good movie, and what is more, it's a director's job to show the best of his actors, remember this!

This remake certainly can't bear the comparison with the original one, but if considered alone, without thinking' at the original, it's quite a lovely movie. Sincerely I can't understand why the critics blame it so much, but certainly this is not the worst movie of the year at all. There are at least 20 worst movies released between 2002 and 2003. The plot is very simple and the movie is actually short so it prevents the audience from being annoyed. The soundtrack is really beautiful and the landscapes are simply spectacular. We know that Madonna isn't the greatest actress in the world and in fact she's a recording artist, but declaring she's the worst actress of the millennium is completely unfair. I mean: there are a lot of talented and over-acclaimed actresses who made and still make embarrassing and over-commercial movies an nobody says nothing about that. Madonna with this small production movie directed by her husband didn't made such a disaster as everyone has said. A lot of critics destroyed it before having seen it only because she was acting there. I think it's a worth-seeing movie, you won't regret it 'cause it's an innocent, nice and enjoyable movie. Last thing: two final scenes were shot, a happy and a sad one; after the horrible acceptance at the first screening in which the happy end was shown Guy and Madonna decide to choose the sad one 'cause they knew the movie would have a sad end..

I think this movie deserves all the attention the press and the critic have witnessed. It's the moving story of the struggling, passionate and in someway tragic love between the two cowboys Ennis and Jack. Both Heath Ledger and Jake Gillenhaal give us a stunning performance that will make of them two stars. I'm very glad to see also that Michelle Williams has received the Academy Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress and I see it as a great achievement for a so young actress who already had a great and serious career. It's definitely one of the best movies of this year and it's good to see that a non-conventional love movie can have such a success in a world full of prejudices.