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The Beach (2000)
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Leonardo DiCaprio sought to distance himself from the purity of his character in Titanic, and his role in The Beach is in many ways a polar opposite. As Richard, a young American seeking to "suck in the experience" of freestyle travel in Thailand, he's a chronic liar, a pot-smoking hedonist, an amoral lover, and ultimately an unstable snake in a doomed Garden of Eden. This crazy descent might be expected from the filmmakers of Trainspotting, but The Beach is a movie without a rudder, venturing into fascinating territory, promising a stimulating adventure, and then careening out of control. After receiving a...
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Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) brings Leonardo DiCaprio back after Titanic in a story that will make his fans cheer, but leave the rest of us feeling that we were cheated.
Long on philosophy, but very short on excitement, this is a movie about Camelot. You remember, don't you, "...there's simply...
(complete The Beach review by Movie Addict)
| The Beach Movie Review by Lisa (3/23/2007) |
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Richard (DiCaprio) did what many of us dream of, he took a break from the norm in hopes to walk the path less traveled. We pick with Richard in Thailand where he's staying in a hostel (like most backpackers) it is here he meets Daffy (Robert Carlyle) a strange paranoid man who comes across like he's dropped one too many...
(complete The Beach review by Lisa)
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