Perhaps not a masterpiece, but certainly a very good film. Cliff is sensitive and driven, Taylor is beautiful and Winters is folorn and pitiable. Definitely worth a look. And a second look.

I suspect the book is better than this adaptation, but the film is still an engaging drama. I kind of liked watching it but I didn't find it that exceptional either. Some nice touches: very good cinematography and mostly good performances, a story that's rather predictable but still worthwhile with a few subtle nuances. In the end though, it's not much better than the average Hollywood drama; the type of thing the Academy loves to throw awards at but as time goes on, people stop caring about it.

A moralist tale for a pessimistic America, it is kind of erotic and also a conservative Hollywood picture, while Winters, Taylor and Clift elevates its ordinary premise to a enormous tragedy, with bitter and obsessed acting.

A little known but beautiful film in so many senses. Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor are faultless and give amazing performances. A dark study of love and how chosing the wrong person can lead to devistating consequences. Touching, timeless and engrossing. The final walking shot is one that will stay with you forever.

The story is...dubious, but also happily overridden by the absolutely extraordinary Liz Taylor (Clift is pretty good, though Shelley Winters is mostly just irritating, which is I suppose the point).

Someone want to tell me why I should care? Apart from the boat scene, this is terribly uninteresting.

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The ordinary story works extraordinarily well, thanks in no small way to the Clift-Taylor pairing.

It's cheesy but good, and I'm glad they didn't cop out on the ending.

The direction is clever. But scriptwise it sucks. The dialogue is dull, the key romance is badly motivated and overall the plot is too predictable.

Stunning, and I'm not just talking about Elizabeth Taylor's beauty.

I really can't figure out how I feel about this one. It isn't very engrossing but there's a lot to like about it - Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor together, Shelley Winters, some excellent scenes and things like that.

I have mixed feelings about this. On a technical level it's great, well paced, beautiful lighting and great performances. The story's interesting too, but the way it makes you feel about Clift's character and his actions is a little worrying.

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Bad pacing, acting isn't impressive (especially Clift, Taylor gives it life though) and the character of George Eastman is so unbelievably dumb that it is impossible to feel sympathy. Who the hell would flee from the police when you didn't commit the crime? The first hour is particularly awful, it doesn't pick up until the boat scene, which is a bit underwhelming considering how many people rave about it. It's not a total bomb, but it certainly isn't as great as people say it is (92 PSI wtf?).

I have no idea what we were supposed to care about in this film, but I didn't care about anything. The characters were all terribly pathetic and terribly acted. I felt like we were supposed to sympathize with George, except for the fact that he is a mega douchebag who forced himself into these situations by not listening to anyone and not being able to keep his genitals in his pants, and who was really a terrible person but not well-written or acted enough to make me care.