Protraph Lack of good storyline.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

carb-5 Well maybe it can be said that this movie is sometime slow but not so much. The performances are very good , specially Hugo Weaving and Richard Dreyfuss are excellent and the movie have a poetic sense and fine dialog . The art designer is Gil Parrondo, who have won 2 academy awards with "Patton" and "Nicholas and Alexandra".This is an adaptation of a novel , a complex one. The screenplay is beautiful and the movie really flows, it's not contrived . This is not a cliché film or a conventional movie and does not disappoint . I really like this movie and I think it's one of the best Dreyfuss's performances ever, creating a subtle, intelligent , simple and wise old man.

Per Einar Forberg I really love this movie! I think it's so gentle and sweet, and there's a lot of humor all through the film. I caught myself smiling most of the film, the humor is so gentle and subtle. However, I'd really love to buy a DVD of this movie, but I cannot find it for sale anywhere. I've been looking for more than a year and all I can find is the book - which I've bought of course. Can anyone help me to find a place where I can buy a DVD version of this wonderful movie?As I live in Norway the market is kinda limited, but I've checked out all the possibilities I'm familiar with. I need to go international for sure.Grateful for any help!

MEG-40 The strange thing about the reviews and comments that I've read about this movie was that they were all bordering on the negative. It is a wonderful film, so different just because it is about an old man who remembers that he can read and how the only books that he can get are love stories which help him put his world into a new perspective. Not quite alone in the Amazonian jungle for years, we are told a bit of his history in cleverly inserted flashbacks. The roles of the slovenly village Mayor (Timothy Spall), the itinerant dentist (Hugo Weaving)and the beautiful village girl (Cathy Tyson) are all so well played that the viewer is drawn in as part of the the story like a voyeur. When the film had ended I just wished to see more. Being a fan of Richard Dreyfuss was a definite plus but overall this gentle film was very enjoyable and I'd see it again and again.

Swiderek Richard dreyfuss is great in this movie. In all movies he make. I've seen this movie in my country, and i'm specting for the dvd because i like to see this movie in english because in spain the movies are dubbeds, and i have not a lot of opportunities for hear his real voice, and i hate it. I love the movies in original version(english of course)