Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

BasicLogic The problem of this film is the dialog, too pretentious, too unrealistic, too poetic, too theatrically formulaic flawed. Those dialog out of the mouth of the bandit general, the tribal woman, the employer Mr. Stein, and out of the mouth of the main character, Jim, all of them were simply too obnoxiously false. Joseph Conrad was a great writer with lot of great stories written. He was a philosophic and profound literary man, a writer who probed the darkness and weakness of the main character and those supporting characters in his novel. Although his philosophic thoughts described in the narrations of his novels looked, read, and felt profound, when those words about life, death, honor, love or whatsoever coming out as the dialog and out of the mouths of these characters would suddenly felt false. How the General, a vicious, barbaric murderer in this film could and would have spoken in such deep and so profound words? A tribal woman who fell in love so easily and conveniently with the psychotic and unstable Jim could have spoken those deep words like those traditional dialog we used to only hearing from a drama on a theater stage? When these overly pretentious words and sentences were out of the mouths of these characters on the silver screen, they just felt so impossibly funny and untrue. When Jim was tortured by the General with burning knife from the fire stove, he was critically burned, but later during the fights, it was totally gone, he ran, he jumped, he dashed like nothing happened at all, his burned wound was just conveniently disappeared just like his white shirt and sailor uniform suddenly became so clean without any stains. There were so many inexcusable overlooks and ridicules in this supposed to be a classic film from a supposed to be great novel, but it just felt unnaturally pretentious and unrealistic. Joseph Conrad had made lot of his created characters speak like philosophers or literary professors.

Prismark10 Lord Jim is an overlong, literate would be epic about redemption of a cowardly sailor.Adapted from the novel by Joseph Conrad, Jim (Peter O'Toole) is an officer in the merchant navy in 19th century far east. In heavy storms he joins his crew in abandoning his ship and his passengers bound for Mecca to perform the hajj pilgrimage.The ship and passenger reach port safely, Jim faces censure for his cowardly actions and stripped of his sailing papers.Jim disappears into anonymity working anywhere he can find a job. One day he gets a chance at redemption as he defends some island villagers from a ruthless warlord and later a river bandit.Director Richard Brooks was hoping O'Toole and Jack Hawkins would elevate this film to the heights of Lawrence of Arabia. The film was extensively shot in Cambodia, there is a literate screenplay and it has all the hallmarks of a would be epic.Yet the film fails because it is uneven, it is overlong, after a promising start it becomes plodding, at times it even looks cheap despite the overseas shooting. O'Toole has a good stab at playing the doubting, depressed Jim but somehow he lacks passion. I think both Brooks and O'Toole realised that the source novel was just too difficult to adapt.

Jonathan Roberts 'Lord Jim' is a film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's acclaimed novel, in which an English seaman (Peter O'Toole), upon being exposed as a coward after abandoning a sinking vessel, seeks a life of anonymity in Southeast Asia. On his travels, he is tasked with a mission that may allow him to reassert himself as a hero, or at least a man of courage. The task is to smuggle weapons to a group of indigenous rebels, who are resisting the tyranny of a sadistic general. The barbarous General (unnamed) is played well by Eli Wallach, but the villain's lines are a little uninspired and cliché: "Death is the end of everything," he tells Jim at one point. At another: "Do you know what makes pain unbearable? It is the brain." It isn't original enough to be sinister, and cheapens the character. (The film has some nice lines, though, such as: "Become a father before you judge a father's anger," and, "There is too much pride in your humility.")The General had the potential to be like 'Apocalypse Now''s General Kurtz, but the writing steers him towards the role of "nasty, dim-witted pirate". A later villain is introduced and is competently played by James Mason; this antagonist is the better of the two, but still isn't great, and the charisma of 'Lord Jim' has to be delivered almost singly by Peter O'Toole's title character. The story is generally quite compelling in places, but the whole production feels quite stretched. It could be a classic if the plot lived up to the action – and the action is, in places, fantastic. 'Lord Jim' is a little 'Lawrence of Arabia', a little 'Treasure Island' and a little 'Indiana Jones', but lacks the tightness and cohesion necessary to equate it with any of these titles.

thinker1691 In 1900, Joseph Conrad published his extraordinary novel Lord Jim. Since then it has traveled around the world and received inter-national recognition and acclaim. In 1925, it was superbly adapted into a film called " Lord Jim ", which was re-made in 1965. In this version we have Peter O'Toole as Lord Jim. Basically, it tells the story of a young English sailor who joins the British Merchant Navy and feels he has found his calling. Having been injured, he is sent to recover in a hospital. Upon his discharge, he is anxious to return to sea, he signs on the first available ship called The Patna. The aging vessel has been assigned to transport Arab pilgrims to the middle East. A huge storm strikes the floundering ship causing the Crew to abandon ship. Jim is forced to choose and he jumps. The ship, however does not sink and the cowardly crew goes into hiding, all except Jim who insists on being court-martial-ed and disgraced. For the rest of his life, Jim must live with the consequences of his fateful decision. He travels deep into the jungles of Malasia, where he seeks solace, redemption and a second chance to prove himself. The movie cast includes, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach and Jack Hawkins. The film has become a benchmark for O'Toole and a definite Movie Classic. It is filled with suspense, dark drama, physical action, explosions and spectacular sequences. The sum total of which created a not-to-be missed Classic for all. ****