Cleopatra

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Eli H Its a gorgeous looking film, but it is excruciatingly long at four hours. It has a natural endpoint in the middle and probably is an example of a movie that could have been two films. Richard Burton is very good as Marc Antony, everyone else give middling performances. This movie needed to be cut, but Mank couldn't bare to have audiences miss a speck of gold of his immaculate set. You can skip this one unless you've got serious patience. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/22/25 Full Review John R This movie is a gorgeous mess. I recently saw it in lovely 70 mm. It really is two movies inartfully smushed together. The casting of the spectacular and talented Elizabeth Taylor as the Middle Eastern Cleopatra does not work very well, although she does well given the script and circumstances. Roddy McDowall's character has a good arc. Rex Harrison and Richard Burton are good but not great. The movie also has too little action for its subject matter. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/22/25 Full Review Walter H I saw this in a theater on its initial release. My date was a no show (sob) but I watched it all, with an intermission that was popular at the time for long movies. The supporting cast make the movie work. Taylor was OK but too old to play a 21 year-old Cleopatra with any credibility, while Burton did not convince me that Antony might've ruled the Roman Empire but for the nagging problem of Octavian. Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar and Roddy McDowell as Octavian make the movie work, as well as other good supporting cast members. It goes on and on but truly is an epic. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/08/25 Full Review Alexsander F Now that's Absolut Cinema, a memorable epic that can be compared to Virgil's great Aeneid. It's four hours that pass in four minutes, but I'm a bit biased since I'm a great enthusiast of Roman history, period films and epics, and this film is a real treat for lovers of history and the great Shakespearean tragedies. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/17/25 Full Review thiago s Filme bacaninha, o roteiro é mais ou menos, as cenas são bacaninhas, o elenco é mais ou menos, e alguns ajudam a melhorar o filme, a história é bacaninha, os personagens sao bacaninhas, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/12/25 Full Review rick r CLEO {E TAULOR} AND MARK ANTHONY {R BURTON} WERE BORING WITH THEIR DREARY SHACKSPEARIAN MONOLOGS. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 12/27/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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