Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Martin Bradley Ernest Hemingway's novel of 'the lost generation' swaning around Europe in the Twenties became this big, prestige production from Darryl F Zanuck and directed by Henry King who was something of a dab hand at turning out big, prestige productions like this. If it's a tad on the turgid side and if the cast were a trifle too old for their roles it's still immensely entertaining and King's direction is often outstanding. It also has old-fashioned star quality of the kind we associate with a much earlier age. Tyrone Power may be miscast as Jake Barnes, Hemingway's 'existential' hero and Mel Ferrer was his usual wooden self but Ava Gardner is surprisingly good as Brett and both Eddie Albert and especially Errol Flynn, (it's probably his best performance), are excellent while Juliette Greco steals her every scene.Despite all the money that was poured into the picture it wasn't really a success; maybe had it been made 20 years earlier things might have been different but by 1957 a new realism had taken over and epic dramas like this one were seen as dinosaurs. Today it feels like a throwback to a time when Hollywood was king and big, bold movies like this were ten a penny. It's certainly no masterpiece but it's no dog either.

vincentlynch-moonoi I've come to the conclusion that I really don't care for Hemingway. Simply not my cup of tea. And, I don't really care for this film, even though it has a lot going for it: on-location Technicolor photography that is sometimes stunning, and a dream cast.But the movie is slow. I began writing this review just about half-way through the film, and my sentiment was what's the point? Interestingly, I found acting here decent. Tyrone Power does look older than his years here, but I am becoming more and more convinced that we sometimes underrate his acting. I'm not at all a fan of Ava Gardner, but she is very good here, and quite lovely. Mel Ferrer...well, not impressive. Eddie Albert decent...so sad he eventually devolved to "Green Acres". The real shocker is Errol Flynn. Once, such a big star, and here reduced to 4th billing! Yes, he had aged badly, but the problem is that he didn't seem to take this part very seriously.A lavish production, but what's the point. Disappointing.

howardeisman The genius of Hemingway's novel is that the narrator naively and gradually reveals what a bunch of self centered, talentless, bigoted bunch of losers his central characters were. Their drinking was not so much angst as superannuated college kids on a binge. Now, some eighty years later, Robert Cohn comes across as the best of them. He cared, he loved, and he was the only successful one of them.How do you make a movie about such unattractive characters?. Would you ask top stars to play contemptible people? The characterizations of the leads were all compromises; Lady Brett becomes a misty romantic, not a rather dull, dumb lost woman (as in the book). Given only empty stereotypes to portray, the actor's performances ring hollow and purposeless. The characters played by Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert were not written with any characterizations at all, thus allowing the actors to do colorful shticks.Nevertheless, the atmosphere was good. The story moves. Minor characters are well done. The movie is Hemingway, but Hemingway lite. Mel Ferrer was good; he should have had a bigger role. His character, Robert Cohn was a contrast to all the rest of the characters. This works in the book, but hardly existed in the film

HelloTexas11 'The Sun Also Rises' is a movie in which a lot happens and nothing happens. Maybe it would be better to say, nothing means anything. Which may be the point Ernest Hemingway was trying to make in the novel the film is based on. We follow a group of people, some who have known each other and some who have just met, as they make their way on a sort of moveable feast (sorry, couldn't resist) across France and Spain. They make witty conversation, argue, eat, drink a lot, go to the bullfights, fall in and out of love, and occasionally come to blows. Lady Brett Ashley (Ava Gardner) is more or less in love with Jake (Tyrone Power) but over the course of the movie manages to flirt, have affairs, or become engaged to just about every other prominent male character. They include Robert (Mel Ferrer), Mike (Errol Flynn), Bill (Eddie Albert), and Pedro (Robert Evans). I suppose depending on one's mood, one could read any number of meanings into the plot: the hopelessness of love, the eccentricities of human nature, the futility of life itself, or maybe that the best thing one can do in trying to deal with any of these is to get drunk in as many different places as possible. The novel, as I recall, had a good deal more style than the film and was worth reading simply for the enjoyment of Hemingway's tough, spare prose and dialogue. It didn't add up to much but it was a good read. The movie is tedious and pointless for the most part, and badly cast. The characters seem too old, and hence foolish, for traipsing around Paris and San Sebastian to no purpose. The bloated screenplay makes it seem as though their ramblings and besotted adventures MUST have some meaning, but when it's all over, it's apparent they don't. There is an interesting bit of casting in Errol Flynn portraying playboy Mike Campbell, the drunkest of all, who has a memorable line when he explains that he went bankrupt "two ways- gradually and all of a sudden." As has been pointed out, Flynn seems to be almost playing himself, and his scenes are the best. But they are not enough to sustain 'The Sun Also Rises,' a film that takes over two hours to arrive nowhere.