The English Patient

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Summary: Terrible!
Review: This is the worst movie ever to be filmed! I can't believe it won as many oscars as it did! It is stupid, long, boring, and not worth it. I wish I could give it zero stars.

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Summary: Stunning
Review: I thought this movie was extraordinary, and definitely deserved best picture because it had depth, even if it was a little slow for some tastes. Yes, some of the characters were unlikeable at times, but this made them all the more believable. In other words they weren't the average cookie-cutter characters, and it certainly wasn't the average love story. Also, Fiennes never ceases to amaze me. It's incredible that he can play so many completely different roles, from Amon Goeth in Schindler's List to Lenny in Strange Days. And this is certainly no acception.

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Summary: One of the top movies of all time.
Review: Excellent movie. Everyone I know loves this movie. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Long and boring
Review: This was one of the most boring movies that I've ever seen. It's one and only redeeming quality, other than it's photography, is the performance of Juliette Binoche. She is absolutely wonderful in this film and much deserving of the Oscar that she received for it. Her romance with the bomb squad man is the one and only interesting part of the movie. One of the worst choices that the Academy has made for Best Picture.

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Summary: Brains in revolt
Review: Quite inadvertently, this film depicts the roots of the struggle between those bipeds who think with their spinal cords and those who think with their gastrointestinal nervous systems. Kip is a belly-thinking product of Eastern philosophy while the Hungarian count is dominated by the European impulse to think linearly up and down the spinal column. Had this movie been made forty-nine years ago by Douglas Sirk, with Robert Stack as the English patient, Greer Garson as the adulterous hussy in the desert, Leslie Caron as the French Canadian nurse, Sabu as Kip, and Dan Duryea as Caravaggio, it would molder forgotten on the video store shelves, but the desire for those who still think with their spines yet assume they have achieved belly-wisdom to have an opportunity to display their taste and sensitivity to their dates have made this pretentious farrago a modern classic.

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Summary: One of the Greatest Movies Ever Made
Review: Abiguity is the greatest strength of the film. For the same reason that some reviewers here gave this movie only one star is why I give it five stars. Yes, Katherine's husband was a good man who got the shaft, but hey, that's what life is really like. If you want to see the standard sacharrine Hollywood movie where characters are clearly delineated according to good and bad characters, then more power to you. This movie is not easy to watch in the sense that it gives one conflicting emotions about the characters and their actions. What a pleasure for a change to see a movie where the characters are morally ambigious like the way people really are. It's very rare that a movie like this comes along;that is unpredictable from beginning to end. Sure, it differs from the book, which was also great, but the movie was great in its own right. Forget the naysayers and buy one of the best movies ever put to celluloid, unless you like predictable fluff and like to turn off your brain when you watch a movie... then go rent an "Ernest" movie.

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Summary: I WOULD LIKE TO SE WHEN THEY FALL IN LOVE
Review: WHEN BOTH ARE LOVING AS BEE ONLY THEM ON THE WORLD

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Summary: Beautiful story brought to life by brilliant acting!
Review: Most of my friends told me they hate this movie - they find it too slow moving and they (especially the guys) labeled it as just another soppy love story. However, I do not share their views. I find "The English Patient" one of the best movies ever produced. It is more than a love story. The movie is set in the backdrop of World War II in Cairo. The main characters are each of them unique in their own ways and purpose, and you will find yourself emphatising with all of them. Ralph Fiennes' character, Count Almasy, is the model of a true gentleman and hero. His only mistake(?) was to fall in love with a married woman, Katherine (played by Kristin Scott Thomas). But their romance is doomed right from the start. Then there is the outspoken and passionate Canadian nurse played by Juliette Binoche who nurses Almasy after his plane crashes and he was badly burnt. He has lost his memory but it was soon recovered thanks to his diary and his past is shown to us in flashbacks. To me, apart from Almasy, the other character that I find truly special is Caravaggio portrayed brilliantly by Willem Dafoe. Too bad his character wasn't given sufficient opportunity to develop. This movie much deserved the Best Picture Oscar it won. The movie is an epic and over 3 hours long. But I advise that you watch the movie with some patience and an open mind as you'll find yourself completely immersed in the storyline in no time at all. If this movie had to compete for Oscar's Best Picture Award with "Titanic" or "Saving Private Ryan" (both Best Picture Oscar winner/touted to be winner this year), I would say "The English Patient" is a much better movie and would win hands-down!

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Summary: Miserable, Pure trash
Review: Yeah, everybody loves this movie. Right. The Critics love it, but everyone I've talked to seems to hate it. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that the acting is cardboard, the two main characters are repulsive, and that the story is so slow it makes James A. Mechner's Alaska seem like a Saturday morning cartoon? This is one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. Fiennes acts like he is constantly constipated, and none of the main characters other than Juliette Binoche are actually likable. This movie is insipid, dull, and overall a huge waste of your time. Take some advice from me, and avoid this movie. You'll thank me later

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Summary: La mejor pelicula de todos los tiempos
Review: El Paciente Ingles es una verdadera joya cinematografica. Los actuaciones son magistrales (quien no aprecia a Ralph Fiennes, Kristen Scott-Thomas y Juliette Binoche en las que son a mi juicio las mejores actuaciones de estos artistas) La adaptacion realizada por el mismo director ha sido muy fiel al libro que tambien es excelente. Hay que poseer una minima sensibilidad para darse cuenta que esta es la historia que descubre y expone los sentimientos mas profundos del ser humano. Es una obra maestra que recomiendo a todos.