I've waited for most of this year to see this film and feel sadly let down. You'd think with classy actors like Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close, we'd get something to at least approach the original version, but no - this is utter pants. There's no chemistry between the leads, and the supporting actors are merely adequate. None of the brooding coiled intensity that was there in the original between Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn - this plays more like a soap opera with dreadfully schmaltzy music. Even the excellent script by William Goldman trudges rather than sparkles. One to be avoided.
Review of The Lion in Winter
