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Summary: 11 Year Old Boys
Review: I saw this film when I was 11 years old. The film inspired an interest in English history which I still have.
One of the major influences in my life.
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Summary: Cromwell: Good film about an evil butcher
Review: I'm Irish. Cromwell was the Butcher of Ireland. This is a well made film, but its near-total disregard of Cromwell's genocidal Irish campaign, (and of the heroic opposition to that butchery by elements of his New Model Army, Levellers and Diggers among them), renders the film a profound disappointment. Shame on Richard Harris (RIP) for not insisisting that the Rape of Ireland be at least prominently mentioned in this biopic.In songwriter Terry Woods' words, "A curse upon you, Oliver Cromwell, you who raped our Motherland! I hope you're rotting down in the hell for the horrors that you sent to our misfortunate forefathers when you robbed them of their land. To Hell or Connacht! May you burn in hell tonight!"...
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Summary: Good
Review: I'm surprised I'd never heard of this film. Even if it was a flop--as I'm sure it was, or I'd have heard of it--it obviously had a big budget and big stars. But I only noticed it in my library last week. I was sure it had to be a stinker if I'd never heard of such a big budget, star-laden movie. But I enjoyed it quite a bit. It kept my interest, and taught me a bit about a bit of English history. An interest in English history help to enjoy this. Not knowing much about the English Civil War, I didn't know of the historical innacuraces, until reading the reviews below. My favorite movie is BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and was disappointed when I learn how inaccurate that movie was. But then I plied my trade as a writer, and am a published novelist and short-story writer. And I learned rules of narrative must be followed to keep a viewers interst. And history doesn't always conform to the rules of narrative. So some molding of facts seems almost necessary at times. I'm still not sure where I sit on this situation!! Is it okay to twist facts to lend drama to a film? Absolutely not! Until I realize that many historical situations could never be put to film if this were not done. Then I think, "Well, if Butch and Sundance headed to Bolivia without being chased, where's the drama? Where's the movie?" So I tend to think, "Better that CROMWELL were historically accurate. But I know the agonies the writer was going through to tell a stream-lined story...and so I forgive him somewhat for changing things around." I'm still not sure. But I like the film!
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Summary: Engaging story line, great epic.
Review: If anyone wants to see this movie to learn about the history of the British Isles, they should stop being lazy and pick up a history book. This movie is a great epic, not a historical lesson. There is definately a great degree of romanticism in the movie and I doubt this movie is a historically accurate depiction. But that is not the point of the movie. If all movies were mirror images of reality down to the last detail, then we would be damn dissappointed at every individual that ever lived. What this movie represent is the ideal view of the struggle. I personally didn't care what kind of man Cromwell in reality was. The charisma of the characters in the movie drew me in. Definately a must see!
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Summary: One of the great movies
Review: In 1995 friend take this video-tape from a shop in London. This movie is full of power.The religion was lightly touched, but this film shows the great faith of God's man Oliver Cromwell.If you are christian I highly recomend you this movie.
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Summary: One of the great movies
Review: IN 1995 i take this video-tape from a shop in London. This movie is full of power.If you are christian I highly recomend you this movie. It will bring you close to the Lord and his present Reformation
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Summary: A colourful and concise, if not entirely accurate film
Review: It is hard to begin to imagine what an awesome task presents itself when one undertakes to portray such a complicated and turbulent era in british constitutional and political history but I believe that Ken Hughes has succeded with this film although certain important historical facts have been ignored (eg; Oliver Cromwell was not one of the five members of parliament whom Charles tried to arrest personally). I presume this was done for dramatic effect. Alec Guinness's interpretation of the vacillating, glacial Charles is in my opinion the most detailed and perfect of his entire career. And I also liked Harris as Cromwell although many have criticised his performance of this complex and elusive character.
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Summary: BEAUTIFUL AND OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL EPIC
Review: Richard Harris gives an impassioned performance as Cromwell. The script is literate without being rhetorical. But Guinness steals the show as the fateful King Charles--watch this performance carefully and see great acting at its greatest! The sets and (Oscar-winning) costumes are flawless. This movie is visually impressive and emotionally involving. For some reason certain reviewers in the past and present have dismissed the movie as less than what it is. That's just plain (1970s) snobbery by critics who just want to impress other critics with their limited wit and abundant sarcasm. Forget about the so-called inaccuracies. History in general is one inaccuracy after another. This is a movie, and as a movie it works beautifully! Highly recommended for adults, although I find nothing offensive for mature youngsters. They don't make these films anymore!
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Summary: A Great Film
Review: Richard Harris looks more like Cromwell than Cromwell. Much of the dialogue is from the historical record and the pen of the historical characters portrayed. There are errors such as attributing Fairfax's prayer to Cromwell, and the numbers and situations at the battles of Naseby and Edgehill but overall it is very accurate for the medium of film. The battle reinactments are smaller scale than the actual battles (as always) but they are quite well done with some great camera work including a moving camera at horse hoof level.
Even an Irishman (like Richard Harris) and a Royalist can find this film interesting even if one brings a prejudice against Cromwell to the viewing.
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Summary: Cromwell- England's Transformer
Review: The historical epic,"Cromwell",magnificiantly depicts the turbulent era in British history in which Great Britiain was involved in its own bloody civil war. A religious as well as political war, "Cromwell" brilliantly depicts the two central figures, the doomed monarch Charles I and the passionately reverent Cromwell with pathos and accuracy. A "must" for every Anglophile and history lover.
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