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Summary: Great Story of Redemption and Love
Review: This movie was a wonderful story of true love, which always means sacrifice. A must see!
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Summary: GREAT!
Review: Les Miserables was great in musical form, and still great when transformed from that to movie form. I love the story! They did a great job!
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Summary: This was the BEST PICTURE of 1998
Review: This movie is awesome. I don't understand why it bombed so bad in the theaters...
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Summary: The Only Good Thing In This Movie is Liam Neeson
Review: I would like to make it clear, I am not writing a review based on the movie's consistentcy to the book. If I was, I would rip and slash and gouge. Please, if you want to get the real story of Les Mis, read the book or see the musical. The movie is a good way to get a very basic idea of the book, but it is ohhhhhh so basic. Liam Neeson gives a wonderful performance. He truly commanded the screen. Personally, I can't understand why these people picked Claire Danes to be Cosette. They should at least pick a person who can act. Cosette was not a spoiled brat. She loved Jean Valjean, who was the only father she ever knew. I think Claire Danes needs to at least take one acting lesson before I ever go to another movie with her in it again. Once again, Liam Neeson played the best Jean Valjean I have ever seen. See this movie, if only for his performance.
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Summary: incomplete, yes, but helpful
Review: In response to some of these previous reviews, I must say that it is certainly true that the movie does leave out all that it is accused of leaving out. However, it cannot be ignored that it is a good introduction to the story. The book is certainly the greatest book ever written, but I would not have read it if I had not watched this movie. It may not be useful for those who have already read the book, but that does not make it a bad movie.
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Summary: a very good movie.. if you haven't read the book!
Review: it seems the only people here that don't like it, are the ones comparing it to the book. i have not read the book, so i would not know how it is compared to it. but overall for what it is, i'd say it's better then 75% of the movies usually released in theatres. i liked this movie a lot and can see nothing bad about it at all! and i really thought the acting was great and the directing very good. at least it made me want to go out and read the actual book! i also am planning on seeing all the other versions of the movie, it's hard to imagine them being any better than this!
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Summary: Mr.August, please read the book first
Review: Did you know the guy who directed this had never read the book, seen the musical or any of the other movie versions? No wonder he's having trouble with the story.I have the greatest respect for Billie August, an otherwise great director of such incredible movies as Pelle the Conqueror and "House of the Spirits, but here he was way in over his head!
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Summary: Victor Hugo would die if he saw this.
Review: Hugo's novel was masterful and beautiful and captured the essence of the misery of humanity. The musical was brilliant and bold. The movie was pitiful. First off Les Misérables without Eponine is an absolute dichotomy. She is a wonderful character. Why didn't they use her? And Enjolras had a total of what, TWO lines? Vital parts of the plot were missing (The barricade scene was practically nonexistant) characterisations were WAY off (Marius is supposed to be SHY, not giving huge speeches and screaming in the centre of the city!) and the little inaccuracies are without number. It's pronounced the Ah-Bay-Say society because they're FRENCH, not the Ay-Bee-Cee society. Cosette and Marius never made love in the beginning as the Enjolras in this montrosity of a film said they did. They kissed and stared at each other every night that's it! Valjean would neither have hit Cosette nor laughed at Javert's death. There was nothing romantic going on between Fantine and Valjean. And what's with Javert kidnapping Cosette? Don't waste your money on this movie. See the play.
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Summary: I liked it
Review: I thought that this was a movie that was done excellently. It brought me to tears a couple places. If you haven't seen it yet, you should see it. I will definatly recommend to everyone I know.
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Summary: the most dissapointing movie i have ever seen.
Review: earlier this year i saw the musical, then i read the book, and i have to say that this movie does neither of them justice. valjean's character is not the way hugo visioned him - he loved cosette in every way possible and never would have hit her, nor would he have smiled at javert's death. eponine and enjolras weren't there at all, the two characters crucial to the themes of the story, the former showing the wretchedness of the poor and the latter showing the people who gave their life to france and to freedom. if you want to see this done properly, see the musical. it may not be realistic, but it properly conveys the depth and themes of the book.
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