Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

pcsimonson1651 Stiff acting!! CGI whale looks more fake than the puppet model in the Huston version. Starbuck had a modern California accent, and he came across like he was bored and couldn't wait to say his lines, and get out of there. Richard Baseheart was a far far far better actor then that baby faced kid playing "Ishmael" Patrick Stewart did NOT play a convincing role as Ahab...it was just Stewart playing Stewart. Gregory Peck actually was Ahab in the earlier version. Even little Pip was better portrayed i the Huston version then this bomb. In fact the entire cast seemed to be bored and just wanted to get it over with. Many of the others did also.

edalweber When I finally saw this on TV recently, I wasn't expecting much, but it was even worse than I thought it would be.No redeeming features whatsoever.Even the special effects were bad.In the 1956 movie the whale had a genuine air of menace.Here it was just a big white lump moving through the ocean.One of the idiot features of the movie was that everyone addressed the narrator as "Ishmael".Both the book and the 1956 movie made that plain that that was a symbolic name, not his real one.Queequeeg in Huston's version is an impressive, dignified man.Here he is just a wild eyed lunatic.The novel is a morality play, and John Huston kept that flavor in his version.Nothing of that in this version. The actor who plays Starbuck is not even remotely as good as the one in the 1956 version(but that is generally true of the whole cast),and totally fails to convey the true motivation of the character.In the book, and in the 1956 movie, Starbuck says"Our mission in life is to provide oil for the lamps of the world.And as long as we perform that task to the best of our abilities,we are performing a service for mankind,and that is pleasing to God." And then he says that forsaking that to assist the Captain in personal vengeance is a perversion of that.But in this version Starbuck seems only concerned that they are losing money.There is a sort of driving spirit in the book, that is conveyed in the 1956 movie,that is totally absent in this,nothing but a bizarre hodgepodge.

brobrettz I have read the previous reviewers comments and I agree that the screenplay for this version of Moby Dick was "dumbed down" for an American audience. But, you have to realize that most Americans nowadays are too illiterate and unread to take Melville's classic book on its own terms. Most Americans will even be unable to read Moby Dick all the way through and understand it. Their brains stupefied by decades of Stephen King and Harry Potter Books, the complex plot themes and character depth of Melville's greatest work (and also considered the greatest book in American Literature) are too much for your average American reader to even begin to understand. So, there is a capitalistic sense for the screenwriters to dilute and water down this wonderful story so it will be understood by "the mob". They want to make ratings not an artistic statement that most of their countrymen would be unable and unwilling to understand.Sad but true….

Tord S Eriksson Rarely a made for TV film is worth seeing and this was definitely not an exception. The faults are too numerous to mention, but the total lack of wind and realistic weather, or that the ship never leans due to the effects of wind, or waves, or ... Sigh!The Hornblower series is in comparison a masterpiece, even if that is based on a less formidable book. But you really feel that you are at sea and not anchored in a shallow pond in Hollywood!In this day and age, that has created such really thrilling and expertly made naval stories like the Perfect Storm, this is really a stinker.Sadly not through a secondary cast, but awful directing, acting, filming and feel.Stewart should stay on his starships, and leave the seas be!