Captain Corelli's Mandolin Reviews

Honestly, even though ‘Shakespeare in Love’ was a huge success, financially and critically, I didn’t care much for this flick. Anyway, following this movie, John Madden became in demand and there were some rather high expectations concerning his directing follow-up.  Eventually, it was a flop and received some poor reviews when it was released. With this in mind, I didn’t expect much from this flick but I still wanted to check it out and, in my opinion, it was not so bad after all. I mean, of course, the whole thing is deeply flawed but I still think it was a rather charming romance and it was entertaining enough. The main issue was that the actors were widely miscast. Indeed, Nicolas Cage as an Italian, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt and Christina Bale as Greeks?!? They were all not really convincing and, from then on, it was rather difficult to take the whole story seriously. Still, like I said before, for a romantic feature, it looked really nice and if you are not too picky, you might enjoy most of it. To conclude, even though this movie was basically a failure, it was still not a complete disaster and I think it is actually worth a look, especially if you like the genre