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SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

TheLittleSongbird I had heard much about this movie, not very favourably mind you, but loving the book and enjoying several other versions especially David Lean's film, I finally thought let's give it a go. After watching, I wouldn't say it is a terrible movie, but of the versions seen(1948 film, 1968 musical, 1982 film, 2005 film, 2007 series, 1999 series and 1933 film) it is my least favourite. I do give it credit for the production values, which do look lovely and evocative(mostly, some scenes are a little too clean though), the good soundtrack, the professional direction a suitably innocent Alex Trench as Oliver and Richard Dreyfuss as a delightful Fagin. Elijah Wood also had a real sense of cunning and charisma as Artful Dodger but his inconsistent accent, coming across sometimes as Australian to me, let him down. On the other hand, the script feels rather corny and misses on some of the more important underlying themes of the story like the poverty and child abuse. The story does maintain most of the details of the book, like the scene with Oliver's mother at the start and I did like that Widow Corney's role is expanded, but the basic tone like the sub-plot with the locket feels very sugar-coated, with some brutal scenes of the book like Fagin manipulating Bill into killing Nancy and Nancy's death lacking their power, in fact Nancy's death here is only implied. I'd say the same for the characters, Mr Bumble is only seen in one scene, Bill Sikes looks too clean and I imagined a more burly figure, Fagin though wonderfully played is not quite oily enough and Nancy is too much of the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold cliché with not enough vulnerability. The rest of the performances are decent enough, Antoine Byrne does look lovely and does do well with what the role gives her to work with, but again more vulnerability wouldn't have gone amiss. David O'Hara overall I found too restrained for Bill Sikes, never really convincing as a violent bully. All in all, not a disaster but rather disappointing all the same. 5/10 Bethany Cox

harrytrue As far as I can tell, no version of "Oliver Twist" follows Dickens' novel faithfully. I think you should read the novel, and use your imagination to create your own story.There are a lot of differences in the movie. One is that Oliver Twist is aware shortly after he moves in with Fagin and his gang, that they are involved in stealing to survive (Fagin cites Robin Hood-a good example-Robin Hood can be considered a terrorist). Oliver has no problems with stealing to survive, unlike the novel.In the novel, as one email writer noted, Fagin is called "the Jew". Dickens noted that all the other villains in "Oliver Twist" (and his other novels) are gentiles. Also, Fagin is a secular Jew. Religion has no part in his life. Jews have not benefited from Fagin, who is a lot darker in the novel.Fagin is not the "nice" character that he is in "Oliver!", but a lot nicer than the character in the novel. In "Oliver Twist", Fagin sets up Sikes to kill Nancy (who dies for different reasons in the novel). Fagin hangs for this. In the movie, Sikes has all the blame. In this movie, Oliver (who is a calculating as Fagin) admits that had Fagin not taken him in, he would be dead now. A modern version is that the looters in New Orleans were often the first to bring food to the people. Oliver and Fagin hug and depart to their separate lives.

rinoa_hartily This is a movie for the young-not showing too much of a classic that might scare them, helping them see that good will reign in this earth, and a really hot guy name Elijah Wood!!! Okay, I know, this movie might not even be all that good but I can't make a sound judgement because Elijah did so beautifully in this movie. It was-in my opinion-his best role. It shows the extent of his acting, and his heart that he pours into it.

Vale One of my favorite film characters is Fagin, because if represents some of the human most illustrative sins: ambition, avarice, manipulation; but Richard Dreyfuss doesn't convince me with his characterization. More, the film is low, bored, and too long for the plot.