Rating: 
Summary: Beautiful Love Story: Matheson & Keira Knightlely(2003 AD)
Review: To: Fans of Russian Literature, Film, or Tele-Film.This motion picture came out on Exxon Mobiles Master
Piece Theatre, and the Re-Make of Dr.Schivago(for 2003
AD) Is really very Beautiful. This is an Upgrade from
the Original Version of the 20th Century. The cast is
fabulous, it has the Charismatic and Handsome Hans Matheson
& the beautiful Keira Knightley. They simply look incredible
on the box cover with Russian Clothing, and look beautiful
as a couple on here. One who has read this story knows
what the story is all about, and that is Love. Love is
beautiful, and motivates, and Dr. Schivago is what this is
all about. Keira Knightley, and Hans Matheson really have to be
the most beautiful people that are in show business(in the motion
picture business). These people(Keira and Hans) have been blessed not only with talent/acting ability but with super looks....Dr.SchiVago(2003 Re-Make), is really a Classic.
Rating:
Summary: Perfect
Review: Very impressive remake. Bravo Mr. Campiotti and production crew! I was more than skeptical about his new version of Doctor Zhivago, a remake of David Lean's Classic? But then why not! And thank goodness! Hans Matheson and Keira Knightly add new demensions to the characters of Zhivago and Lara. I liked Lara much better this time around than in Lean's film and have a much better understanding of her motivation, who she is, and why Zhivago would venture into a love affair with her. Poor Tonya! In many ways I prefer this small screen version to Lean's great epic. My only complaint...and not much of that...is the score's musical cues...which remind this is a tv production. I had to keep reminding myself this version was written and shot for the tv screen as opposed to a theater. But there are some lovely musical themes. The interviews in special features with the director, writer, producer, and actors is well worth viewing. I am going to make a concentrated effort as result to read the book. What is extraodinary about this story is Zhivago's ability to find beauty in life, and love, in a particualry ugly time in history,a time of great suffering. To have awareness you are alive in your own liftetime, that life is both remarkable and wonderful! Zhivago's sensitivity comes across but was always aloof in David Lean's version. Sam Neill is a great Kamarvosky. What a delicious role! The sex scenes are filmed with taste and are in no way sensationalized. I give this version 5 stars. It was a difficult task bringing this concept to reality having Lean's version hanging over the production.
Rating:
Summary: Well worth Owning
Review: Very impressive remake. Bravo Mr. Campiotti and production crew! I was more than skeptical about his new version of Doctor Zhivago, a remake of David Lean's Classic? But then why not! And thank goodness! Hans Matheson and Keira Knightly add new demensions to the characters of Zhivago and Lara. I liked Lara much better this time around than in Lean's film and have a much better understanding of her motivation, who she is, and why Zhivago would venture into a love affair with her. Poor Tonya! In many ways I prefer this small screen version to Lean's great epic. My only complaint...and not much of that...is the score's musical cues...which remind this is a tv production. I had to keep reminding myself this version was written and shot for the tv screen as opposed to a theater. But there are some lovely musical themes. The interviews in special features with the director, writer, producer, and actors is well worth viewing. I am going to make a concentrated effort as result to read the book. What is extraodinary about this story is Zhivago's ability to find beauty in life, and love, in a particualry ugly time in history,a time of great suffering. To have awareness you are alive in your own liftetime, that life is both remarkable and wonderful! Zhivago's sensitivity comes across but was always aloof in David Lean's version. Sam Neill is a great Kamarvosky. What a delicious role! The sex scenes are filmed with taste and are in no way sensationalized. I give this version 5 stars. It was a difficult task bringing this concept to reality having Lean's version hanging over the production.
Rating: 
Summary: Zhivago Lite
Review: We have the typical Masterpiece Theatre treatment here. Nice to look at, attractive actors (note I did not say talented), standard received British accents with the ocassional Cockney to show rough lower class or revolutionaries and a total bore. To be sure this version is closer to Pasternak than Lean's film but that does not make it better. Sorry but here we have Zhivago and Lara who are more Sloane Square yuppies than flesh and blood adults living through hard times. Sam Neill is quite good as Komarovsky but he does not erase the even slimmier portrayl by Rod Stieger. Nor do the two leads come within miles of Sharif and Julie Christie who had the combination of stunning looks and being a very fine actress. After 30 years Lean's effort still stands on top and just gets better with age. If I had to chose between Siberian exile and sitting through this new version again the former would win hands down.
Rating: 
Summary: Why bother?
Review: Whoever dreamed this "remake" up either has no imagination for material that could be used or has too much time on their hands or both. I found the original sufficient, so what is the point of making this over again? Moviemakers today simply cannot make a movie without some kind of overwhelming special effect(for example, children running or horses galloping in the all too often used "slow motion") or relentlessly emotional background music. Add to that the penchant for making things as blatantly gory as possible and you have the typical movie of today that everyone gives the now all too ubiquitous and therefore quite worthless "standing ovation". I think we have passed the golden age and are entering the iron age complete with plenty of rust. The actors were also too young and seemingly unable to relate to the subject material without somehow giving their portrayal through the lens of the hysterical world of the present. This was truly one of and for generation x--an ever infantile group who demand so much and give (and imagine) so little.
Rating:
Summary: Emotionally filled, very good story line.
Review: You go from wanting to knock a guy's teeth out, to being sad, then to amazement and awe, then happiness, then back to wanting to knock that guy's teeth out again. It has alot of feeling, and is has a very good story line. You want to keep watching it and watching it, once you start, you aren't gonna stop! Keira Knightley did an exceptional job as Lara Antipova, and I enjoyed seeing russion tapes every now and then.
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