A sadly unenlightening attempt to profile the king of clowns.
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02/27/08
Chaplin (1992)
61 %
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Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 25
Rotten:16
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A dramatized biography of the highs and lows in the life of one of the foremost comic geniuses the screen has ever known. Presented as the reminiscences of an elderly Chaplin, the narrative opens with the comic's impoverished East London... [More]
Starring: Robert Downey, Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Richard Attenborough
Reviews for Chaplin
Top Critic
For all the movie's undisputed competence, grand and inspired moments are thin on the ground.
02/27/08
Top Critic
Top Critic Robert Downey Jr., does an impressive job as the title character, perfectly recreating Chaplin's range of English accents and mimicking, with astonishing precision, the gait and gestures of the Little Tramp.
02/27/08
Top Critic With this reverential biopic, director Richard Attenborough has cranked out a many-reel, talky talkie.
02/27/08
Top Critic A lot of loving care (but not much thought) went into this white elephant, and considering how fascinating a figure Chaplin is it's never exactly boring, but your time would be much better spent looking at any of Chaplin's pictures.
02/27/08
Robert Downey enhales Chaplin's Autobiography and wears the Little Tramp's persona effectively
02/05/07
Actually, it's a pretty bad movie, but Robert Downey Jr. is so great that you can forget nearly all of the clunky storytelling.
10/21/05
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