It’s beautifully shot, acted and designed, but there’s little cohesion in the story. Maybe one day we’ll see a better cut, but for now this is a sadly fumbled opportunity.
All The King's Men (2006)
Runtime: 2 hrs 21 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Patricia Clarkson, Kate Winslet, Kathy Baker
Producer: Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Ken Lemberger, Michael Hausman
Composer: James Horner, T-Bone Burnett
DVD Info
Release:
Jul 12, 2007
DVD Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dubbed - French - Optional
- Subtitles - English, French - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Behind The Scenes - Making Of
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurettes - 1. "An American Classic"
- 2. "L.A. Confidential - On Location with ALL THE KING'S MEN"
- 3. "Shake Hands with the Devil"
- 4. "The Legend and Lore of Huey Long"
Reviews
What should have been an incisive study of the American political scene turns out a lumbering celluloid white elephant.
Penn is terrific and the production values are impressive, but All the King's Men gets lost in a poorly-structured, overly complicated plot that fails to engage.
It's a slickly produced film that drowns in convoluted plotting and clumsy characterisations.
Leaves out too much of the story to really work. Why are these people doing what they're doing? If I hadn't seen the 1949 version first, I would not have known.
As much an old-fashioned potboiler as it is a political morality tale.
We have a series of beautiful threads weaved together in such haphazard fashion that, despite their potential, form a surprisingly ugly quilt.
The film isn't dreadful: it is just generally disappointing.
Plays as a veritable autopsy of itself; to watch the movie is to watch it go wrong, to observe the tempting gleam of the film that might have been grow ever dimmer.
What's worse -- a bad remake of a classic film, or just a bad literary adaptation with delusions of grandeur?
This is a misfire of almost epic proportions, a lavishly produced but wholly hollow and nonsensical adaptation of a magnificently constructed novel.
a powerful story in real life, but it just doesn’t come across on film.
An unmitigated disaster, choked by miscast actors, suffocated by illogical editing and drowned by a choppy script that offers no real sense of period and no clear delineation of its central themes.
A fine cast is largely wasted in this brooding remake of 1949's Best Picture Oscar winner.
Even when he's drinking or delirious, Willie is more appealing than Jack, whose detours into his own gothic background take the movie off rails.
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