Swept Away

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Summary: entertaining
Review: I loved the Italian original so much that I wanted to check this one out. You have to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy this movie (i.e. in a forgiving mood, ready to enjoy some entertainment).

Swept Away is by no means cinamatic genius, but it really is amusing. Madonna is DEAD ON in her portrayal of the elitist and demanding wealthy American woman....so dead on that you wonder how much of it is acting and how much it is chanelling the Madonna of the 1990s. She did a great job.

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Summary: Madonna's Acting Career "Swept Away"
Review: Warning: Don't watch this movie while you're eating. Just the sight of Madonna's wrinkled face and mannish pecs(veins and all), will be vomit inducing. This is an hysterical bomb with horrendeous, self-conscious acting(?) by that Golden Raspberry award Champ Madonna. Just curious though why Cyndi Lauper's real life husband David Thornton was in this? He's a gifted actor who usually has some great roles in Nick Cassavetes' films. Well I guess You live and learn.

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Summary: Not At All Bad!
Review: Critics were bashing this movie before it was even released, causing it not to be released at all really in the United States, just because it stars Madonna and was directed by her husband Guy Ritchie. The only thing bad about this movie is the ending, which has nothing to do with the acting, rather the plot. It's worth watching alone just to see Madonna looking so drop-dead gorgeous, as always, in a bikini almost the whole movie.

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Summary: so beautiful movie...
Review: I really don't get it why this was worst movie of the year..
The last part the movie was even so touching...
Madonna and Adriano Giannini were so perfect for roles.
I regret that I didn't see this at theater

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Summary: I mean this, worst movie I have ever seen.
Review: The dialogue in this movie is beyond atrocious, and at many times laughable. I do believe that Madonna can act, contrary to many other reviewers. However, her portrayal of the rich woman in this movie was so overdone and overwraught it was completely unbelievable. I also believe that Guy Ritchie has put out some good work. However, the acting in this movie is just so bad, you can't watch it.

Watch this movie only if you'd like to be bored to tears, or if you need a laugh.

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Summary: One of the worst movies ever made
Review: I'm a big fan of movies and it takes a lot for not to be able to enjoy a movie. This movie however is as bad as you've heard. I don't know what Guy Ritchie was thinking. He was the reason I saw this because I love Snatch. This movie is nothing to the level of Snatch.

Amber Leighton(Madonna) is a very wealthy woman. She is very cold and hates almost everybody. She has a flaw for everything and is very upset with the vactation that her husband Todd planned.

Giuseppe "Peppe" Esposito(Giannini) is an italian sailor working on the yacht that Amber is touring the Mediteranean on. He is given the assignment to take care of her every need and is always at her beckon call. The two hate each other and it's obvious. Peppe can't do anything though because he's the servant and it's his job to put up with all her crap.

While on the boat one day Amber misses the diving trip with all the other passengers. She demands that Peppe take her even though he says it's not safe to venture out. The two do and suprise suprise the raft motor breaks and strands the two.

The two find an island after some time at sea and Peppe has had enough of Amber. He quickly puts his foot down and tells her that he is the master know and she is his servant in all aspects. If she wants to survive she will do his will no matter what it is. She is disobiedient to him at first but after he slaps her around and beats her she comes around to liking him some.

The tension only continues to grow between the two and after Peppe rapes her on the beach Amber starts to fall for him. She knows he's the only way she can survive so she submits to his will and falls in love with him. Peppe doesn't know if the love is ture though and wants to get off the island. Amber however wants to stay because the two can't be together if they are ever found.

The movie is just horrible. From all aspects is it bad. The acting isn't good and Madonna needs to just give it up. She is a singer and should stick to that. I hate her character, but could never separate the two from each other.

Adriano Giannini isn't all that bad in the movie and is given the most to work with. However, there is no man patient enough in the world to put up with what his character goes through and that kills the movie. Amber is taken way to far early on. It is great though getting to watch Madonna get slapped by Giannini mutiple times.

The rape scene was the final straw for me. It was stupid and not believable the way they shot it. The whole idea of her falling in love with him after he does it is a far stretch as well. By the time this happened I really was looking forward to the end of this.

The love scenes are another bad thing in the movie. They aren't believable at all. You can tell Ritchie isn't comfortable shooting his nude wife with another man. He should have cast a different actress or not tried to shoot the scenes.

The movie is bad. The critics were right on this time. This movie should have been "Swept Away" to a dump because thats where it belongs. There is nothing good about this film except for some nice sets and scenery but even that can save it. So save some brain cells and miss out on this one.

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Summary: Why was this movie slammed by the press?
Review: I am not a HUGE Madonna fan. I think she does have talent and is VERY creative but just because this film was starring Madonna did not make me watch it. In fact, I stayed away from it because of the negative reviews it had.

I watched the movie recently at a friend's house and was astounded that it received such terrible reviews. It's obviously a farce that slowly and surely turns into a love story. Madonna was very good in this role; I was able to see her transformation throughout.

The movie was beautifully filmed and well directed. I thought I had the ending pegged up until the very end and I was wrong. There were more than two ways the movie could have ended and I was glad it didn't end like all other "Hollywood" fluff.

I would give this one a chance and don't take it as a serious take on the US capitalism. The intention wasn't to be a social commentary. Take it for what it is; a comedic love story.

p.s. Don't forget to watch the interviews between Madonna and Guy Ritchie. They are as fun as the movie.

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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: OK why in the world was this made out to be a comedy? I was expecting by the reviews the critics gave, that this movie would be fun to make fun of. I was wrong.

I don't think I laughed once. It wasn't funny. Not that that is a bad thing, I think this film was marketed wrong.

It gets a little carried away in the melodrama sometimes (what's with that faux rape scene?), but overall I thought this film was very very sad. It had a Romeo and Juliet theme, in which two people from two different worlds are kept from each other even though they are in love. But are they really kept from each other? Madonna's character "Amber" could have easily just said "screw society, this is the man I love," but she didn't. I think that says a lot about people's inability to change.

On the whole, I wouldn't say this movie is horrible. It surprised me with its ending, which is a rarity nowadays. I just don't know why they marketed it as comedy.

And by the way, this is the first Madonna film I have seen, so I don't know how she acted in other films. But in this one I found her delightful, I believed in her character and that is the aim of any actor. See for yourself.

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Summary: Getting Swept Away!
Review: First off, I LOVED the movie. Being a big Madonna fan already, I knew I wanted to see it, but didn't get a chance to in theaters due to it being pulled. But when it was on DVD, I saw it, and loved it. Madonna plays a "material girl", who's a compleat bitch! Which I love! People don't give her enough credit for anything she does. So this movie isn't "Evita", but it's still awsome, has a good love story, beautiful back drop, and is very funny! I totoally recomend this to anyone who loves a reomantic comedy!

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Summary: Swept Under The Rug
Review: For a movie that was deadpanned by the critics this film is actually not so horrible. It is visually stunning with great scenes of Greece and the Mediterranean islands.

Madonna stars in this movie as a rich aristocrat with no soul; she is bossy, obnoxious and bitchy. Her character is entirely unlikable and her performance is bland. She perks up after she gets stranded on an island with the super hunk Adriano Giannini, who wouldn't! Once Madonna's role is pared down to survival her acting gets better too. Giannini is excellent as an Italian fisherman trying to earn a few extra bucks working on a Greek yacht. The story becomes a bit predictable until the ending which is actually quite sad.

This film's redeeming quality is found in the gorgeous backdrops as well as Giannini's character. It is a blatant slap in the face of the rich and powerful and shows them as a lower class hidden beneath all their wealth. Maybe that is why this film fared poorly at the box office! An afternoon would not be wasted getting swept away by this visually beautiful film.....the story might leave you begging for something more but it isn't horrible.