| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 6/10) |
| A.E.W. Mason's 1902 novel The Four Feathers has already been made into a
feature-length film six times, featuring the likes of Fay Wray, William
Powell, Jane Seymour and Beau Bridges. The seventh is a gorgeous but
deceptively shallow picture directed by...more |
| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4) |
| THE FOUR FEATHERS is the seventh film based on A.E.W. Mason's novel of the same
name. Badly miscast and directed, it's a costume drama set in the late 1800s
that is a half hour too long. more |
| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Jonathan F. Richards |
| A.E.W. Mason's 1902 novel The Four Feathers has a romantic derring-do that
has made it catnip for the movie camera pretty much since the contraption was
invented. It's been filmed at least a half-dozen times, first in 1915, and most
memorably in...more |
| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Bob Bloom (Rating: 2/4) |
| THE FOUR FEATHERS (2002) 2 stars out of 4. Starring Heath Ledger, Kate
Hudson, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Michael Sheen. Director of
photography Robert Richardson. Music composed and conducted by James
Horner. Screenplay by Michael Schiffer and...more |
| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 6/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "The Four Feathers" (Paramount Pictures)
Honor, heroism and redemption comprise this epic historical adventure.
Set in 1884, when a Brit's highest calling was to fight for Queen and Country,
the loyalty-and-love story...more |
| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Eugene Novikov (Rating: D) |
| "Above all, remember that you are a Christian soldier."
About ninety minutes into The Four Feathers, I scribbled down the words
"lost me" and shut my notebook. Shekhar Kapur's follow-up to his elegant
Elizabeth is a shapeless, sloppy, incoherent mess,...more |
| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4) |
| THE FOUR FEATHERS is the seventh film based on A.E.W. Mason's novel of the same
name. Badly miscast and directed, it's a costume drama set in the late 1800s
that is a half hour too long. more |
| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 3/4) |
| # stars based on 4 stars: 3
Reviews by: Harvey Karten
Paramount Pictures/Miramax Films
Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Written by:Michael Schiffer, Hossein Amini, novel by A.E.W.
Mason
Cast: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon
Hounsou
Screened at:...more |
| The Four Feathers Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 7/10) |
| CAPSULE: The seventh film version of A. E. W. Mason's
THE FOUR FEATHERS compromises some of its integrity
to be a more Hollywood-ish story than the novel told.
Nevertheless it makes for a rousing adventures with
some possible...more |
