The Fall of the Roman Empire

Audience Reviews

View All (119) audience reviews

John A Doesn't have the status that Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia have but don't let that discourage you. This is an involving and strikingly photographed epic. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/11/24 Full Review Loyd W Very well acted by an outstanding cast. Impressive staging of Imperial ceremonies. Poor choreography of fight scenes and almost silly crowd staging of extras in crowd scenes. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/23/23 Full Review Mike R Unwatchable. The audio assistants must have had many coconut shells (for the hosses' hooves). There are lot of hosses in this fillum. Too many, some might argue. Then you've got to buy into the whole cod-Shakespearean dialogue, seemingly inspired by the notion that Marcus Aurelius was a "philosopher". And apparently we're meant to buy into the whole star-vehicle stuff. Spoiler alert: Alec Guiness takes blinking ages and ages to die. The punters in the 60s who had paid hard cash to sit through this dirge in cinemas, sandwiched by ads for Kia Ora and local Indian restaurants, had no choice. We have though: I bring you the FAST FORWARD button. This took all of 30 minutes to watch, despite my best sincere intentions to watch the whole thing at normal speed at the start (all 172 minutes). Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/23 Full Review s r When I came across this epic, I couldn't believe I hadn't heard anyone talk about it before and I consider myself reasonably well informed about most films like this. Not to mention the excellent cast. I was intrigued in the similarities between Gladiator, but this seems to follow the story much better, despite it not being as well made. It takes on the bigger picture to explain the actual fall and why things fell apart. It does lose it direction towards the end, but it is still pretty impressive. It was on youtube. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I did enjoy seeing it. Amazing cast a lot of my favorite actors from that era are present in it. I obviously saw some of the things Gladiator by Ridley Scott took from this film which was cool to see. Sometimes the dialogue was very boring compared to some of the movies at that time but did enjoy seeing some of the action and different scenes throughout the movie. I watch it again for sure many times but not my favorite Roman Empire film from the golden ages. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review jerry p A grand spectacle. The sets depicting the grandeur of Ancient Rome were magnificent. There was a lot of action, although the large battle scenes were confused melees not characteristic of battle tactics of the Roman cohorts. There was a fine classical Tiomkin musical score, that honestly I don't find to my entirely to my taste. Frankly, Sophia Loren's performance is stilted and flat and without vitality. She was the exotic sexual attraction. I'd like to rate it higher because of the quality of the production and acting (Steven Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Alec Guinness (most famous for Obi-wan fame)) and even the attempts to make a historical statement about the decline of Empires, but its missing that je ne sais quoi...that something. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

The Fall of the Roman Empire

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Most Popular at Home Now