Review of Onegin

Onegin (1999)
6/10
Not a bad effort. But horrendous score.
9 June 2003
Warning: Spoilers
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This movie is rather depressing since nobody really wins. But set that aside, I found the costumes were quite nice. The emotion was very real.

But apart from that, the movie really requires a bigger budget. The pace of the film is absurd. At 105 minutes, the movie seems short.

Whats worse is the score is among the worst I've ever seen. I might have given the film at best an 8, but the score dragged it to a 6. It might have been worse had I not noticed the powerful acting job from Liv Tyler. After such good jobs like that, I can see how she got the LOTR job.

A comment on the dvd. It's fully featured except with one notible item missing. A total lack of english subtitles. Or closed captioning. Someone at the studio seemed to think it was better just to put the spanish subtitles on it and anything in english. A pity.

6/10

Quality: 7/10 Entertainment: 4/10 Replayable: 1/10
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