As a cultural comeuppance, Kapur's take on The Four Feathers is weirdly reminiscent of Black Hawk Down...

| Jun 23, 2022

A decent film with some intense battle violence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2003

Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2002

Ledger does a great job in the action sequences and the more tender scenes.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2002

Offers too small a dose of the blood-and-sand adventure you expect from this sort of big-budget Hollywood remake.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 22, 2002

Shekhar Kapur stages the pageantry very well, from the scenes of red-coated officers swirling their ladies around the dance floor to the marches, battles, and prison scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2002

It's a pretty compelling yarn, not to mention full of pretty pictures, and yet it could be so much more than that.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2002

A movie that lacks the jingoistic bravura of earlier editions ... but hasn't replaced it with meaningful historical revisionism appropriate to our post-colonial age.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2002

What's missing, crucially, is the passion required to make this unlikely tale work.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2002

It's beautifully done, but there's not much of a point to it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 20, 2002

A spectacular-looking film, but its ambivalent story and viewpoint ultimately drag it down.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2002

It's an essentially stupid movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2002

The Four Feathers has rewards, from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 20, 2002

There's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film ... or the emotional integrity of the performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2002

Weighted down with slow, uninvolving storytelling and flat acting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2002

As moth-eaten as a Bengal tiger rug on the floor of a London men's club.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2002

A rousing if retro adventure film about soldiers and honor and brotherly love.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2002

What a featherweight epic this is, the kind of uniformed period piece where the watchword is pretty. Pretty costumes, pretty soldiers, pretty battles; pretty silly.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2002