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Summary: Pretty scenery adds up to a snooze fest
Review: "I Dreamed of Africa" is about as exciting as watching someone's boring vacation home videos. The very photogenic African landscape and the nice musical score are the only reasons to RENT this one. I can't imagine anyone wanting to own it or watch it more than once. The story is so convoluted, yet it is supposedly a "true story." It has every movie cliche in the book, which, sadly, makes the whole ordeal awfully predictable. I won't give any of the plot away, just suffice it to say, you'll see it all coming a mile away. The beautiful score, pretty scenery and average acting can't camouflage the weak and overlong script.Rent this one if you must. But I'd keep looking on the video shelf. There is better than this waiting for you.
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Summary: Wow I am impressed.
Review: (I dreamed of Africa ) was an amazing movie , very touching and convincing. The cast was perfect , Kim Basinger should be nominated for an Oscar for her amazing astounding acting . I loved the interview with the real ( Kuki Gallman) which (Basinger) plays her . She's an Italian women who goes to Africa with her newly husband and her son to forget her old past and even for a change , and the funny thing she doesn't know what she's doing . I thought that the writing and the acting were amazing , the story is very interesting and moving , a new unique experience. what could I say ? a good way to spend your time.
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Summary: A good movie is a good movie
Review: After reading all of the preceding negative reviews one who is perusing the ratings might be turned off by negativity here. This is a good movie through and through. What it doesnt contain is a lot of shallow and unbelievable scenes. Basinger and Perez do an excellent job. Most importantly it is entertaining and poignant, definitely bring a box of tissues to view it. Great job - well done, the whole reason to watch a movie is to be entertained, not to try to justify or validate the merits of it based on some less informed know-it-alls. So, ppplllllgggggghhhhhhhh to those who have nothing better to do than pretend they are paid movie critics.
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Summary: A good movie is a good movie
Review: After reading all of the preceding negative reviews one who is perusing the ratings might be turned off by negativity here. This is a good movie through and through. What it doesnt contain is a lot of shallow and unbelievable scenes. Basinger and Perez do an excellent job. Most importantly it is entertaining and poignant, definitely bring a box of tissues to view it. Great job - well done, the whole reason to watch a movie is to be entertained, not to try to justify or validate the merits of it based on some less informed know-it-alls. So, ppplllllgggggghhhhhhhh to those who have nothing better to do than pretend they are paid movie critics.
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Summary: garbage
Review: great scenery, but if they have an academy award for overacting, basinger is a sure winner.
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Summary: Bland bio pic of an intriguing woman
Review: I Dreamed of Africa is based on the nonfiction bestseller by Kuki Gallman, a European woman who settled on a ranch in Kenya with her husband and young son. The movie version seems curiously dated, probably because the idea of white settlers in Africa is so out of fashion. Ironically, it is now politically correct to think of this one great land mass as suitably for segregation forever. The movie begins in Italy, where Kuki, played by Kim Bassinger, is a member of the partying set. On one night of revelry, she is nearly killed in a horrific car wreck. While recovering, she realizes how vacant her life is. She feels that the only worthwhile thing she has is her young son, Emanuele [Liam Aiken]. She falls in love with Paulo [Vincent Perez], a restless but charming man, and they soon discover that they have a mutual love for Africa. When he decides he wants to take up ranching in Kenya, it doesn't take much to persuade her to go with him, much to the dismay of her powerful socialite mother, Franca [Eva Marie Saint]. When they arrive, they find their work cut out for them. There is barely a road to their land, and the ranch house is a wreck. Kuki learns that chasing lions out of the front yard and elephants out of her vegetable garden is nothing unusual. Paulo enjoys going hunting with his buddies, but in Africa, these trips often last up to ten days. With no telephone, Kuki is often left to manage the place on her own, and this is her most difficult adjustment. It takes her a long while to understand that, in Africa, time has a different rhythm. Kim Bassinger is totally believable as Kuki. You can see this woman running a vast ranch in real life. There is one scene in particular, a crisis involving her son, where her acting is as good as it gets. The photography is magnificent, although with Kenya and South Africa as backdrops, I imagine it's hard to take a bad shot. Now for the bad news: The script is below par. The movie is filled with dramatic events, but most of them are disconnected. For example, at one point there is a fierce storm which nearly destroys the house. We see the destruction, but in the next scene we are into another subject, making the storm sequence pointless. The result of the script problems is that, while we witness several events that should be emotionally powerful, we wind up being rather detached from them. The native Africans are always in the background. This makes no sense, because for Kuki and her husband to control 100,000 acres, they would have to had have great interaction with the people. In fact, how did they ever run it at all, since, as the movie would have it, Paulo was always away on a hunting trip? These are just a few of the myriad script problems. For Bassinger's performance alone, this movie is worth seeing, but don't expect to be swept away by the story. For more accurate information on the real Kuki Gallman, who has turned her land into one of the great wildlife refuge and research centers in Africa, go to her Website...
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Summary: Trash
Review: If you bought it, I pity you. This was one of the most boring, annoying films of Kim Basinger's career, and of all time for that matter. I've never read the book, but it MUST be better than the movie. It's filled with nothing but bad acting, hungry animals, and death. And to top off the stupidity, the director & screenwriter try to make parts humorous and "wholesome." Don't see this movie, for the love of God.
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Summary: Below average movie
Review: No story! No plot! good photography, but National Geographic does a much better job -- do not even think of buying this movie.
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Summary: Two stars for scenery
Review: No story, no directing, and no acting. thank God I didn't buy this one. Sudami
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Summary: Two stars for scenery
Review: No story, no directing, and no acting. thank God I didn't buy this one. Sudami
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