Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Kirpianuscus or just fascinating. because it has splendid photograph, realistic atmosphere and Ken Marshall does a credible Marco Polo. the image of Kublai Khan, who reminds his classic portrait, the dialog and adventures and magic of an Orient who is mixture of fairy tale and fights for power, influence and seduction are the key for the success of the series. a film who remains important for me for discover a man and his book about a land who transforms the image about itself of the Europeans. a series who has the gift to seduce for its smart science to use historical facts in a movie about values and trip in an exotic culture. collision between Europe and Orient, it remains, more than artistic product, support for reflection.

Andres Salama I saw this 1982 miniseries on the famous medieval Venetian explorer of the Far East as a teenager and I loved it. The great story of Marco Polo done in this international co production with a great cast, great locations (in Italy, Morocco and Inner Mongolia in China), great historical reconstruction of the era, great storytelling, faithfulness to the original material. The little known actor Kenneth Marshall stars as Marco Polo. Denholm Elliot is his father Niccolo. Anne Bancroft is his mother. John Gielgud has a cameo as the Doge of Venice. Burt Lancaster is Pope Gregory X. Despite its many virtues, this miniseries has become quite hard to find and it is not usually aired on TV on reruns.

leevmlafn1 The expanded version of this score (over 120 minutes of music) is available at the following link. However, right now it's out of stock. Perhaps if you write to Douglass Fake (I've known him for more than 30 years and is my oldest friend) and ask if he's getting anymore in, he'd appreciate it.got to www.intrada.com. then click on catalogue by composer. then click on Ennio Morricone, then scroll down to Marco Polo.There could actually be a third disk added to this to bring out just about all the music from the mini-series, but this 2-disk set is glorious.I'm a huge Morricone fan, have been one since "A Fistful of Dollars" first hit these shores in 1966 (and he wasn't even credited as Morricone in the credits, but as Dan Savio, because the producers were afraid of being taken as an Italian movie since Italy had made so many sword and sandal movies, and we know how critics loved those, right?), so for me to say this is one of my favorite Morricone scores is really saying something. Another score that is very high on my list is his rejected score to "What Dreams May Come". Someone recorded about 28 minutes of that score and released to. I have a copy, and it is magnificent.But if you can get "Marco POlo", do so!

J_Charles this mini-series opened the door to China at a time when it was still a very mysterious empire - unknown to foreign eyes, much like the China it was depicting. And so we share Marco Polo's wonder at the natural beauty, his intrigue with the local customs, and his amazement that something so new and different come from people who deep down are the same as he is.Cinematography is great. Can't rave about it enough. The mountains, the plains, the palace, the river are all beautifully shown. Somebody put a lot of time, effort and money into this and it shows.The story can get a little drawn out in parts but on the whole it is well paced.Acting: Ken Marshall seems to grow up before our very eyes. He does such an amazing job that it makes you wonder why he didn't become a big star. Leonard Nimoy is oddly cast and his presence is more distracting than anything.8.5/10