Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

brobrettz I have read the previous reviewers comments and I agree that the screenplay for this version of Moby Dick was "dumbed down" for an American audience. But, you have to realize that most Americans nowadays are too illiterate and unread to take Melville's classic book on its own terms. Most Americans will even be unable to read Moby Dick all the way through and understand it. Their brains stupefied by decades of Stephen King and Harry Potter Books, the complex plot themes and character depth of Melville's greatest work (and also considered the greatest book in American Literature) are too much for your average American reader to even begin to understand. So, there is a capitalistic sense for the screenwriters to dilute and water down this wonderful story so it will be understood by "the mob". They want to make ratings not an artistic statement that most of their countrymen would be unable and unwilling to understand.Sad but true….

mOVIemAN56 What an awful film. Geez. I watched this in a film class and just plain hated it. As I watched this I couldn't help but think what Franc Roddam and Anton Diether thinking. I usually don't base a film on one specific thing and I didn't with this. The visual effects were terrible, the acting terrible and the story was nothing as the classic book or '56 adaption. Even Patrick Stewart couldn't bring the film out of the huge hole it dug . Everything for a bad film is used in this mini-series and it really shouldn't be seen by anyone. Nothing is explained and nothing really happens except a bunch of guys talking about a whale.Moby Dick. Starring: Patrick Stewart, Henry Thomas, Piripi Waretini, and Bruce Spence. 1 out of 5 Stars.

Tord S Eriksson Rarely a made for TV film is worth seeing and this was definitely not an exception. The faults are too numerous to mention, but the total lack of wind and realistic weather, or that the ship never leans due to the effects of wind, or waves, or ... Sigh!The Hornblower series is in comparison a masterpiece, even if that is based on a less formidable book. But you really feel that you are at sea and not anchored in a shallow pond in Hollywood!In this day and age, that has created such really thrilling and expertly made naval stories like the Perfect Storm, this is really a stinker.Sadly not through a secondary cast, but awful directing, acting, filming and feel.Stewart should stay on his starships, and leave the seas be!

TexasRedge I didn't even know that this film even existed until one day I was at the check-out counter at my local Wal-Mart store and the had a shelf/table full of discounted videos(you know-the ones thay couldn't sell at full price,so they move them to the front of the store and mark the price way down) And being a lover of films, I took the liberty to sift through these to see if there was anything there that might peek my interest. ....and that is when I found Moby Dick. So,I purchased the film for only $3.99I remember reading Moby Dick in my 8th grade Jr.High class and I also remeber that I didn't like it, and I remeber wondering why this story had been so popular for so many years, and I remeber wondering why it had became such a timeless classic. Dispite the fact that I didn't like Moby Dick as a novel, for some reason I though I might Enjoy this film. Seeing how I only had $4 bucks invested in it - it seemed that I couldn't go wrong.I ended up liking everything about this film but the story.The Music is first rate, the costumes are great,The acting is very well done. In fact this is one of the best quality Made for TV films of the 1990's (exclunding epic mini-series which are always done much better than single Made for TV films like this one). My problem with Moby Dick was that the source material for this film(the Moby Dick novel itself)isn't good to start with. Once again just like when I was 14 and in the 8th grade (only now I'm 32) I must admit that my yunger 14 year old self was right. this story is pointless. Captain Ahab chases a Albino(White) whale all over the world because he is own a revenge quest to kill the great white whale nick-named Moby Dick. only to get him self and his entire crew killed in the process. leaving only the stories main charactor as the sole survivor.Once again at age 32(just like when I was 14)I found myself wondering why this story has managed to stand up to the test and time and still remain one of the worlds great literary classics. The story has always been pointless to me. However this movie did absoletly the best they could with the source material that had. I guess the best way to make a movie thats not very good is to base it on a classic novel that not very good to start with.I gave this film 6 out of 10 stars- only because the production,Music, cast and crew did a very fine job. it the story Moby Dick that stinks