Cleopatra
'Classic' |
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This is the 1999 movie based on Cleopatra. Timothy
Dalton stars as Julius Caeser. This movie is massive - spanning 4 disks. Each
disk contains an episode of the story each with it's own sub plot.
The
second part was a little weak on plot but the overall movie was excellent. This
movie tells the story of Cleopatra (- with a sprinkling of Hollywood additions
- ok so there's not much historical accuracy here but who cares!)
The
cleopatra rolling out of a rug scene was well executed although lifted from an
earlier movie and there were lot's of other nice touches. |
Picture: |
No expense was spared on
the scenery and costumes and thankfully the VCD picture quality is very good
throughout. The movie lends itself nicely to the VCD format with few action
scenes and the typical VCD artifacts. |
Sound: |
The sound was generally
very clear but there was a discernable artifact in the right channel which
became annoying when there was silent scenes, but this did not affect my
enjoyment of the movie. I would say that the sound quality suffered a little
during encoding but this was to the advantage of the picture
quality. |
Overall: |
If you like classic movie
remakes then this is a must buy. But if you are an action fan and enjoyed other
Roman epics I doubt that you would find much here to appeal to you. It is the
sort of film that I could happily watch when I was at home in bed with the
flu! |
Notes:This title is distributed by Teliwa
and was licenced by Polinta Movie(M) and comes in nice flat presentation
packaging. Other titles in this 'classic' series include The Arabian Nights
(new), Merlin (new), The Odyssey, Peter Blanchleys Creature, The Creature,
Journey to the center of the earth, Jason and the Argonaughts, Alice in
Wonderland (new), Moby Dick (new) starring Patrick Stewart and Noah's Ark. -
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mostly modern adaptations of well known movies or of literature
classics. |
