ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

xanadu-65205 Another long drawn, melodramatic saga about a man in love with anothers wife. Yawn !Pathetic film spends all its time prettying up adultery & glorifying it ; Like putting lipstick on a pig. Bad concept. Boring movie. Even introducing desert & war elements wasn't sufficient lipstick on that particular pig.

MArgie Martin I never saw a film where I just wanted to scream out "I AM BORED"! I don't care how many awards this boring film has won it is still a boring film. I am not a person who will love a movies because the Academy awarded it with Best Picture. That's is what they did here.In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working and living in a bombed-out Italian monastery, looks after a critically burned man who speaks English but cannot remember his name. They are joined by Kip, a Sikh sapper in the British Army who defuses bombs and has a love affair with Hana before leaving for Florence, and David Caravaggio, a Canadian Intelligence Corps operative who was questioned by Germans and has had his thumbs cut off during a German interrogation. Caravaggio questions the patient, who gradually reveals his past.This film could of had the same plot and been 1/2 sorter and it would have been 10x better. 20 years after it has won Best Picture it still gets me mad that this film won over "FARGO" and "Sling Blade"

Humphreywashere The extramarital affair of two rich pompous and pretentious people who indulge in their own delights whilst others fulfil their duty to the war on the frontline, is the centre to this story. They are an utterly boring pair, especially the English patient himself, who proudly proclaims "I do not bargain (with the local market merchants)" in a disdainful tone. They are a construct always speaking as if they are reciting pretentious poetry. The historical chronicles of Herodotus are referred to by the pair repeatedly as if to remind the viewer that these people are oh so learned. When playing spin the bottle with others singing funny songs and having fun around a campfire, the female protagonist (the only woman in the company of about 5 men) recites a boring story of Gyges lusting for Candaules and her nakedness. That's when we first glimpse her narcissism and flirtatious personality.The most preposterous part is when our poetic lovers are stranded in the desert due to a plane crash involving the grieving husband. As she is injured, and her husband lies dead, her besotted lover leaves her alone with a flashlight and her precious Herodotus in a cave in the middle of the desert and walks to get help. Yes, that's right. With an ankle fracture her fate is sealed when he leaves her alone, whilst he embarks on a 3 day journey through the desert to return with a car. He is unsuccessful (there is a war after all). After a substantial period of time, he returns to the cave. Her body would be either desiccated or bloated, yet she is shown as fresh as the moment he left her when he lifts her in his arms and puts her in a plane again. Taking off, he crashes again in the desert and is burned to near death, but taken by passing Arabs to a hospital (through the desert again). A nurse, abandons her duties to wounded soldiers to feed and administer morphine repeatedly to this one selfish man for a substantial period of time, and she is portrayed as an angel.This movie sentimentalises and romanticises war. The love story is puerile and gross. I think lovers of cinematography might like it.

Sameir Ali The English Patient is an amazing movie set in the World War II.Hana, A military nurse is taking care of a completely burned man. He has lost his memory too. At a point, during a journey, when it was almost impossible to travel with her dying patient, she finds shelter in an abandoned house. Soon, a thief joins them. His thumb fingers were cut off. That has some history to narrate in connection with her patient.The story progress as the memories come back to the patient. His love story is revealed here. Meanwhile, Hana develops her love towards a military officer, Kip. Kip was a Singh, (acted by Naveen Andrews, his parents are from Kerala, India) working in detecting bombs and disarm them. Hana believes she has a bad fate, that everyone she loves will die.The movie is a mixture of lust, love, trust, betrayal, revenge, fear, sympathy, adventure etc. Sometimes slow, but a definitely worth watch. The two stories are heart touching.Technical side and acting sides are brilliant. The movie bagged 9 Oscars out of 12.A must and worth watch Roance War Drama. #KiduMovie