Les Miserables Reviews - Metacritic. I'm not typically one for writing reviews but I decided after suffering through this movie that I needed the catharsis of doing one. I'll begin by saying that I am a fan of the musical. I saw it with a touring group when they came through and I own the "Dream Cast" concert version.

I believe Les Mis has some of the most beautiful music and themes I've ever seen in a musical, albeit presented through a loosely woven story. Unfortunately this latest version, while attempting to stay closer to the musical production, didn't seem to be assembled with the same quality. The most distracting thing to me was that many of the cast were weak singers.

They were unable to reach their notes without straining or giving up before hitting them. Some of Javert's music was even rearranged to accommodate Mr.

Crowe. I appreciate the actors' ability to break down emotionally when needed but the voices were not as strong as their performance and many times took away from the impact that a song could have had. Mr. Crowe and Mr. Jackman's solos were often muffled or nasal respectively. I cringed before Valjean began his "God on high" at the barricade uncomfortably fearing what was about to come.

And Javert's Stars solo, which would normally be belted out with a strong baritone fell flat. The cinematography was done in an odd manner. There were a lot of artistic angles presented. Some were interesting, like the sweep over the cross into the city toward the beginning. Others were very distracting like the butterfly on the gate during Cosette's duet with Marius in the garden. Watch Population 436 Streaming. Valjean was annoyingly upstaged by a large- eyed banner during his solo at the barricade. The camera seemed handheld much of the time as well.

Les Misérables (French pronunciation: [le mizeʁabl(ə)]) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the. Share this Rating. Title: Les Miserables (TV Movie 1978) 7.4 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. [Spoiler alert! If you don’t know the story of Les Misérables and want to see the film without already knowing a lot of plot points, including the ending, then. Directed by Bille August. With Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Christopher Adamson. Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a.

I greatly appreciated the cut during Fantine's first sexual encounter as a prostitute I was watching this with my family and questioned if I needed to do some editing of my own. Yet we were all taken aback at the decision to follow Javert all the way down to his bone crunching end in the Seine. I believe this would have been better had it been left to the imagination. It was actually distracting when done in such a blatant manner. All in all I appreciated the sets and some of the singing as well as most of the art. I am glad someone made an attempt to bring the musical to video. Sadly, I think I would have enjoyed it more had they just filmed the actual stage play (like the 2.

Les Miserables movie reviews & Metacritic score: A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel about a recently-released prisoner named Jean Valjean st. Big Brother Au Season 9 Episode 71.

Royal Albert Hall Phantom of the Opera). I decided to rate this a "0" to even out the unrealistically positive reviews. Watch Get Him To The Greek Online IMDB more.

This should really be around a 6 in my book. Thanks for reading if you got through this!