Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Armand history page. beautiful show. preoccupation for nuances. huge project , romantic slices, plots, love, heroic scenes, battles and story of a queen as reflection of sacrifice spirit and love for country. sure, it is more a subject of Thai pride. but, in same measure, an admirable work. at first step but this step is remarkable. for measure, for images, for nuances of tale, for science to create a window to Orient far from basic recipes of exoticism. it is a mega - production who preserves its identity. a testimony of charming potential of South Asian cinema to give a different product by Bollywood . and the fact is not insignificant. portrait of Thai XVI century, it is a beautiful jewelery, really impressive for each its part.

spectralmoon I had no idea what this movie was but had seen it on the satellite schedule several times before the occasion on which I finally watched it. This is definitely another on the list of foreign-language films that are much better than most of Hollywood's output.If you can appreciate movies that are filmed in a language you don't understand, I'd highly recommend this. As with films like Queen Margot and the recent Chinese movies from Crouching Tiger to Hero and House of Flying Daggers, I felt like I understood directly most of the time. The acting, direction, and pace of the subtitles were so well done that I was pretty much completely drawn into the movie and oblivious to the fact that I was reading anything.Being completely uneducated on Thai history, it was difficult the first time I was watching to keep track of who was who. I felt like this added to the experience of watching this movie rather than detract from it, however, because the viewer is meant to feel conflicted sympathies.Suriyothai is just a gorgeous movie. Everything about it is so artful that you want to dive into it down to tasting the foods. I totally recommend it if you want an epic movie you've never heard of that is easily on top of Hollywood standards for quality. If this were an American movie, the budget probably would have been at least 200 million or so. It's just fantastic.

fastmike If you don't mind stepping out of the Hollywood made-for-the-average-audience recipe, and if you are curious about things and places, whose ruins you've see in exotic travel programs then by all means see this.Glimpse the culture and mind-set of 16th century South East Asia, through the looking glass crafted director Tan Mui, extraordinary costume and set design and beautiful cinematography.A complex plot and subtitles make this a little difficult to follow, and it is a little long, but if you like a change of pace, then see what it was like a long time ago, in this palace, far, far away.

owen-t If you're feeling bored by the #1 or the #21 film on the weekly boxoffice reports, this flick will be something out of the ordinary. There's a great deal about Thailand and its history that is unfamiliar to me, and many of you. The look, the culture, the sounds are all a bit new. Unexpected things keep turning up on the screen. Some of them like the acting and editing take a little time to get use to, but eventually things start to look and sound familiar, especially if you know your Shakespeare and European history. This is a story of warring kingdoms, of nobles and ladies scheming and killing for power, of lovers true and false, of honor and betrayal, and a little bit of humor tossed in to lighten things up. There's plenty of dead people, but one of the most moving scenes, the execution of a young king is at first a little strange and incongrously funny. In the space of a few minutes it turns cold and terrifying without ever showing a drop of blood.Now I wonder if some Western director is going to steal the whole plot for a story that will be more familiar to Americans, something historical or maybe a science fiction trilogy.