Someone does shout, "Get the men and arm the elephants!" Sadly, this alone doesn't make you think of Cecil B. DeMille as the press notes would like you to. "Hercules and the Captive Women" comes more to mind.

| Feb 9, 2014

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

LEGEND OF SURIYOTHAI looks very much like the "larger than life" film epics of 1950s and 1960s

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 18, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2005

American audiences expect crouching tigers and hidden dragons in their Asian fare, so plodding elephants may be a little anti-climactic. This one is for the history buffs.

| May 21, 2004

With excellent acting, amazing sets and production standards as high as any I've seen, the movie has only one real problem: Once you're lost in the jungle, it's a very long way out.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 31, 2003

It is overlong, overproduced, overscaled and crammed with too many plots, subplots and digressions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2003

Without knowing what has been lost in the process, it would be hard to imagine the original film was any less repetitive or more dramatically engaging than what remains.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2003

What pieces of the story you do manage to figure out don't carry any emotional weight.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 9, 2003

The film tells its story in the flattest manner possible, a story that could have been fascinating and enthralling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2003

Enjoy the gorgeous and gaudy splendor of the sets, the locations and the spare-no-expense battle scenes featuring 3,500 extras and 160 elephants.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2003

[S]tolid and solemn [and] surprisingly dull...

| Sep 19, 2003

always it is striving to be something special and substantial.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2003

demonstrates Shakespearean themes of unrequited and true love, lust for power, and betrayal

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 30, 2003

'Get the men and arm the elephants!' As that line indicates, 'Suriyothai' is at least unlike any other movie now in theaters...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2003

Compelling enough that one wishes to be able to see the entire eight hours, with all the missing context filled back in. As it is, this short version seems even longer than eight hours.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2003

A project that is only intermittently involving.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 5, 2003

The bottom line is often leaden and redundant: There is quite simply too much to sort through.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2003

A delightful experience for Westerners to watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2003

Visually ravishing and full of double-crosses and nefarious plots worthy of Shakespeare.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2003