Phantom of the Opera

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Julian S A richly vibrant adaptation, more melodrama than horror, but undeniably effective. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/25 Full Review CodyZamboni Z Watchable, but not very compelling, Lavish Technicolor production, Huge sets, fancy costumes, mammoth opera scenes, All money is up on the screen, But Phantom is more of a tragic figure, He is shown before he goes psycho, Way too much of his back story, Needed more mystery about his character. The horror should've been amped up and the music sequences edited down, , Claude Rains gives a solid performance, as does girl who plays Christine, Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/23/24 Full Review Jay W "The Phantom of the Opera" exists in a special gray area of classic Universal Monsters. The 1925 silent film stars Lon Chaney, the father of "the Wolfman". This one from 1943 stars Claude Rains, who also starred as "The Invisible Man". In a way the Phantom can be seen as both the first of the classic monsters and one of the last of their kind. I admire the fact that, even though is a "remake" of the 1925 film it feels like a completely different film. It would have been so easy for producers to just take the same story, put in color and sound and call it a day. But instead they went above and beyond and crafted a more fleshed out story for the Phantom. And when the story focuses on the backstory of the phantom, it is really good. When the film does the opera parts, it is a real drag. Of course, that will all vary depending on how much you like watching people sing boldly in Italian. Those scenes were just too many and too long. Changing the origin of the phantom does present its own problems, for example his relation to that of Christine suffers due to the change. Claude Raines does a good job as the Phantom. But, knowing how well he can laugh maniacally, I was hoping for a bit more of his over the top villainous performance. There is a running gag about a love triangle for Christine that gets a good number of laughs. Overall, it is admiral how much new they bring to the Phantom story. The movie just suffers from pacing problems, spending too much time focusing on the wrong things. Enough so, that the movie feels like it ends just when the story gets going. But it is good enough that you could call me a fan of the Phantom. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/21/24 Full Review Andrew L The first half hour of the film gives an origin of The Phantom and how he came to be. How the police couldn't figure out that Claude Rains's character of Enrique Claudin was The Phantom from the very beginning is the biggest mystery of this movie. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/04/24 Full Review Valerii Ege D Worldwide's third, second English adaptation. Captive Wild Woman was the boring movie in Universal Horror, but I am changing my mind; this movie, is hard to finish. Even worse, the process of the story changed. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/19/23 Full Review Liam D The most forgotten member of the universal monsters has one of the best movies all down to the beautiful Oscar winning Cinematography, great writing and symphonic performance by Claude Reins (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Lost World) Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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