Dark Prince

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Summary: Dark Prince
Review: Althought I like Nick Mancuso and usually movies about the Marquis De Sade, I didn't like this one. Good cast/not so good plot.I bought it/then viewed it. Would not recommend the same. Lisa C,

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Summary: Dark Prince:Intimate Tales of the Marquis de Sade
Review: Excellent! Deliciously wicked, darkly witty, a masterpiece. Nick Mancuso gives an arousing performance as the "Dark Prince." His treatment of this notorious character is most decadent. Overall this film is poorly directed, and with the exception of a wonderful Nick Mancuso, poorly acted, but that's okay. This film is more fluffy brain candy than anything else. It's just fun to watch. The viewer is hard pressed not to begin feeling compassion for the Marquis, all the while despising him for being such a naughty man. Fortunately there is just enough humour, albeit dry humour, to take the edge off the seriousness of the underlying story. A must see for those with a taste for the different in "candy for the mind". Enjoy.

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Summary: 5 stars for Nick Mancuso as de Sade
Review: I agree with the reviewer who wrote that John Rhys-Davies was misused in this movie and that the writers did not decide at the outset what kind of piece they were trying to make. But I also agree with the reviewer who called Nick Mancuso the most erotic actor in movies today. Mancuso's performance as de Sade was outstanding. Five stars for him! He rivets the attention, bringing great depth to a character that otherwise wouldn't have interested me at all. As a movie, perhaps it is rather silly, but when viewed as a character portrait--ignoring any scenes Mancuso is not in--the piece is excellent. It's amazing to see what one actor can do to elevate a picture. I will watch this one again just to see Mancuso.

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Summary: Arty porn
Review: I am not a prude and I have read the works of DeSade but I was uncomfortable with some of the nudity in this film. Otherwise the story was good and the acting adequate. There was a lot more to DeSade than the film told the audience.

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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I just recently watched this film and I just have to say that it's the best erotic film I have seen. It's not porno. A film that has topless women is not porno. Porno films are sub-quality videotapes that have some women with silicon bust 'laying down'...however this is a period piece starring the most notorious nobleman of all time with an erotic touch. Until now 'Story of O' was my favorite erotic piece, but this is far better with the Marquis its main character. Buy it if you are into this sort of thing.

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Summary: Found Mancuso the most erotic man in movies today
Review: I was not impressed with the entire cast. Mancuso was obviously the major cost of the film and without him, I think it would have failed. Now because of Mancuso's incredible performance, I own the movie and watch it on a regular basis. His character was alive with passion and I found myself in awe of his dramatic abilities.

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Summary: What is WRONG with hollywood?
Review: Im fed up! I can't rely on the movie industry to put out a reasonable, (purely)fact-based representation of the Marquis' life!I actually had high hopes for this movie bacause it was said to be based on the true story. SORRY! TRY AGAIN! I was apalled!Bad acting, bad directing, horrible story line, and low budget. Thats not even all of it. When are the creators of movies going to realize that enough happened in his life that its not even nessesary to make things up? Theres no way in [heck] that the things that happen in this movie could have happened, so why proclaim it "based on a true story"? It's clear to me this is not so, and that he is merely a character in a line of events (so distorted and rearanged!) based on a loose description of De Sades' life (with some conveinient changes).I'm sorry, but I thought this movie was atrocious, and I once again wait to see a biographical movie worthy to carry his name.

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Summary: intertwins sade and his characters
Review: it was a great portral of sade and his charecters from his books. it weaves sades life and his fiction beautifully. it takes you into sade's mind. nick mancuso was amazing as sade. if you enjoy any of sades writing youll love this movie!

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Summary: Some of the best acting I've ever seen in pornography.
Review: It's porn. It's romantic, it's full of accurate dialogue and character points, but it's pornography. However, Nick Mancuso is a wonderful actor and it's actually a good film. I would imagine that the sort of people who can see the good acting is Showgirls would recognize this movie's appeal.

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Summary: Dark drama or Porno? Both? No, it's none of these.
Review: The only reason that this movie gets three stars instead of its rightfully deserved ONE is that Nick Mancuso's acting ability and the decent effort they put into authenticity in the set design earn it two more stars. The plot is predictable. The fact that the director looks as if they can't decide whether they're reshooting the "Story of O" or "Elizabeth" gives the whole movie such a split on what this movie is ultimately trying to convey one would think the director was a schizoid amoeba undergoing mitosis. The remaining cast did an adequate acting performance. The writers should have been given more coffee (maybe they would have stayed awake long enough to come up with better material), and the (mis)use of John Rhys-Davies as a glorified walk-on were what got this movie its three star rating. On the whole, it should have been decided from the start what direction this movie intended to go: depraved porno or dramatic period piece. The movie tries to meld these two genres together but fails to deliver. Sorry, I've seen better.