Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Kailansorac
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Sameer Callahan
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
dr-madian
This movie is an example of the real and amazing Art, I am really shocked by the rate of only 6.7
Cristi_Ciopron
This gently fanciful comedy is genuinely charming and funny, leisured and mellow, heartrending; it may have been set up as a vehicle, but the direction has zest and coherence, and Brando was generally very good in his '90s comedies, in his late career, masterful and mind-blowing.It's one of the last endearing B movies made in the '80s style, prolonged in the '90s. In the '80s, these B outings offered room for leisure and fun.'Don Juan DeMarco' is intriguing, tempered, lyrical, lively, very likable, vastly good-natured. Enjoy Depp's intelligent, thorough, tactful, subtle and artful acting. There's a side of choreography to all this.This movie is an original Latino fantasy and reading of a myth (it does a bit of that, though), in every way superior to Rodriguez's disheartening trash that was to pour afterward.Reading may create a lyrical disposition, seeing a movie requires it, presupposes it, needs it. You must adjust swiftly.It was an one-off for Leven, who directed, he was 54 yrs by the time the movie got released, he went off writing a bit, even directing another movie, he has been a clinical psychologist, an interesting guy.
SnoopyStyle
Johnny Depp plays a delusional man who thinks he's Don Juan DeMarco, a legendary lover. When he's on top of a billboard, the police brings in Dr. Jack Mickler (Marlon Brando) to talk the jumper down. Jack is retiring in 10 days, and struggles to get him for his swan song. As everybody gets to know the kid, they start to fall under his spell.Johnny Depp is incredible in this. His magnetism is evident just with him in that costume. The restaurant scene at the start is funny and sets the character up perfectly. Depp is probably the only actor who could have done this character correctly. When every woman goes crazy for him, it's actually believable.As for Brando, it's probably his best performance in awhile. That's not a big praise since he hasn't been in a good movie for over a decade before this movie. His presence is big enough to counter weight Depp's magnetism, and I'm not making fun of his weight. He is basically playing the Robin Williams damaged psychiatrist role in 'Good Will Hunting'.The story isn't much. There are no real surprises, or real insights into mental health. The character is more poetry than reality. And I'm not sure the delusional flashbacks are that compelling. I actually think an early reveal of his real life and a more tragic true love story would make those flashbacks more compelling. For Johnny Depp as Don Juan alone, I would recommend this movie. Otherwise, the movie doesn't have a big enough true story befitting of Don Juan DeMarco.
nancy-k-arnold
This is not really a formal review; all I can say is this is one of my all-time favorite movies. It has it all . . . romance, sword fights, humor . . . and the great actors Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway, and Johnny Depp. And, you have a feeling of go back and forth in time between the scenes in a modern day big city psychiatric hospital setting and various exotic places that seem from an era gone by. And, it has the best theme of all time . . . love . . . the eternal power of love. Even Don Juan de Marco falls in love. This movie also has some of the best lines, for example: "There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love."
