There was little-to-nothing enjoyable about this movie.

Excellent cast and ingenious study of the deviousness that runs through a family.

Fine acting, a witty well-constructed screenplay, but the result is a talk-heavy movie that never really MOVES.

An unadourned, sometimes nasty medieval drama boasting one performance for the ages: Hepburn's.

An epic drama with magnificent writing and performances.

One of the most fucked up family dramas you will see. Great writing and some stellar acting but I bet it's more watchable on stage. I grow more and more skeptical of play to movie adaptations the more I see. Few are done really well and the best of them have very different scripts. That being said, this stands up to the test of time and is a well-deserved classic.

So much devilish good fun. Hardly anything compares the the experience of watching these two fantastic performers having at each other with one hell of a witty script. Possibly each's finest performance.

Awesome. Richard Burton, Catherine Hepburn. Can't beat it.

Witty written story and excellent acting, but the theatrical output tested my buttocks. And ultimately it was a merry-go-round.

You'd think that more than 2 hours of devious people plotting against each other and hurtling insults would get boring, but surprisingly, it didn't. Not when the venom is spat in such an eloquent way. A few powerhouse performances kept my attention to the screen. Just a shame that the cinematography is a bit unremarkable.

O'Toole and (especially) Hepburn give massive performances, making the poor standard of some of the supporting cast (the king's mistress, the youngest son John) stand out really badly. The film's constantly over the top emotional register, and the way the French king disappears without resolving his story, are also flaws, but O'Toole and Hepburn are just so much damn fun to watch.

An endless parade of witty insults, debauchery and backstabbing! The ending is perfect.

somewhat witty dialogue but uninteresting

Positively moistmaking dialoge and two massive central perfomances by Peter O'Toole (not Richard Burton, you inbred douchenozzles down the page) and Katharine Hepburn are almost enough for me to forgive the much too stagy nature of the production. Almost. Handled differently by someone with a better understanding of cinema would have possible resulted in a masterpiece, but as it stands we just have some ridiculously good acting immortalized and that's pretty much it.

Feels a bit like Albee rewriting Shakespeare. I seem to be in the minority on this one, but I found it quite overwrought and tedious. Practically everything gets tiresome, and quickly... the backbiting sarcasm, the pompous score, the calculated bits of raunchy content or dialogue, the endless scheming, and most of all the blustery ACTING! that plagues every performance. There are occasional moments of intriguing drama and a number of nicely crafted lines, but they are lost in a sea of ham.

Very good, but no masterpiece. The script is deft, and Hepburn and Hopkins are both magnificent. I also love that it inhabits its period so well; it looks right, and despite some (deliberate) anachronisms, none of the characters have the modern attitudes so often pasted onto films like this. O'Toole, as usual, tries too hard, and his great moments of wry intelligence are too often marred by histrionic grandstanding that comes out of nowhere; the more I watch him, the less sense he makes to me.

the epitome of plays maladapted for a vastly different medium, only in small parts is it realized in any way. in an attempt to make complex and deep characters they end up looking cheap farcacal abominations that not even the most insightful person could unravel. the acting is a mixed bag, the script is equally hot/cold, and at times the cinematography is stunning, but seldom they are.

Great Performances. Very bleak settings and story about getting exactly what you wanted and finding out that it isn't all you expected.

If this is the one with Richard Burton, then it is a MUST SEE.

Outstanding film full of witty lines, superb acting (Katherine Hepburn lightens the screen like no one ever did) and excellent production. It's amazing to follow the intricate story and the way it unfolds, all due to the masterful screenplay.