Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

cricketbat It's a bit long and a bit slow, but Far and Away is a well-made epic drama. Though I've seen it many times now, this film is still able to keep my attention and play with my emotions. Also, it's a fine St. Patrick's Day movie, to be sure.

OneEightNine Media There are a lot of things wrong with this movie. First off, it is just silly. The acting, dialogue, nearly everything. The film doesn't even do a good just of presenting history correctly. It starts off by claiming a greedy Irish upperclass are unfairly charging high rents and that is causing conflict. What the film doesn't tell you is that those people are not even Irish. They were English settlers who stole land with the help of England and made the lives of the actual Irish people a living heck. So that rich vs poor thing is a bunch of hogwash from the get go. This review is long enough, the film is annoying goofy. Maybe the accents were so bad that it made the whole production set stop caring about making a respectable film. Who know?

petra_ste "His best friend is a talking pie!" "Sold! Howard, you've done it again!" (cue Happy Days theme) from The SimpsonsI didn't have such terrible memories of Far and Away, last seen when I was little more than a kid - probably for a number of factors, including John Williams' slick soundtrack, Enya's memorable Book of Days, my schoolboy crush for the young and radiant redhead Nicole Kidman... and mostly for the premise of the Oklahoma Land Rush, a fascinating topic.Watching it as an adult, Far and Away is bad. Being a Ron Howard movie, emotions register with the subtlety of a stampede of buffaloes; the camera swoops around emphatically, rotates, takes flight; character moments are corny, comedic scenes juvenile. People complain about, say, Spielberg's populism and lack of sophistication... but, compared to Howard, good ol' Steven is as thematically dense and thought-provoking as Stanley Kubrick.Kidman and Cruise, who later became competent (in Kidman's case even great) performers, here are just coasting on their looks. Cruise in particular attempts an Irish accent which sounds like he has a moribund but petulant leprechaun stuck in his larynx.4/10

851222 Greetings from Lithuania."Far and Away" (1992) is beautifully looking, nice acted good directed and very poorly written adventure flick (that pretends to be an epic). Set in historical surrounding, shoot beautifully it has the scope, the heart, but unfortunately it falls short in writing - dialogs are poor, forced, not realistic at all and full of coincidences. It has a story, but it doesn't have guts to show it seriously - "Far and Away" is simply an eye candy.Stil, if you want to look at gorgeous N.Kidman, some beautiful shoots,good directing by a great R.Howard and a really interesting (not without a lots of clichés of course)ending, this adventure (and some romance, largely because of the chemistry between the leads) flick is for you - just don't take it to seriously, it's pure fun. 8/10.