Cleopatra
The movie depicts historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra as Cleopatra tries to manipulate both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in her ill-fated attempt to save the Egyptian empire.
27 September 1952, Pasadena, California, USA
27 February 1937, Dallas, Texas, USA
1 March 1926, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
13 September 1909, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
12 September 1914, Newport, Wales, UK
3 April 1926, Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
3 January 1935, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
April 4, 1942 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
21 January 1921, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
7 May 1938, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
5 March 1908, Huyton, Lancashire, England, UK [now Huyton, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK]
March 11, 2016
...a tale of two men being manipulated, and possibly loved, by a powerful and conflicted woman.
August 02, 2014
The film has a spectacular variety of liabilities (and, to be fair, strengths as well), but the most visible and crushing is that's an utter dud as a star vehicle.
May 05, 2008
[A] general muddle.
August 19, 2013
Though it owes as much to Shakespeare's interpretation and to Roman propaganda as to the historical record, this interpretation of the great queen's life succeeds in conveying something of the intelligence and force of personality her opponents feared.
February 09, 2006
Harrison, doing his waspish don act as Caesar, alone rises above mediocrity.
July 09, 2013
It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, for good and ill.
March 30, 2016
It may not be as compelling and tightly edited as Ben-Hur, but Cleopatra is still a Hollywood epic that tells a grand story in a grand way. Save it for a night when the family feels like a four-hour spectacle.
September 05, 2007
Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic epoch.
November 25, 2014
Four-hour visual stunner requires patience, maturity.
October 06, 2014
Taylor inhabits the role with a focussed but uninhibited imperiousness, as when she turns Cleopatra's entrance into Rome, aboard a giant rolling sphinx, into the ultimate red-carpet photo op.
February 15, 2014
A lumbering monstrosity of a movie with all manner of preposterous hairstyles and improbable fashions. Worth seeing -- once anyway -- at least as wayward legend.
