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NUMBERS
Box Office: $18,236,897
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CONSENSUS
Though beautiful to look at, The Four Feathers lacks epic excitement and suffers from an ambivalent viewpoint.
CAST & CREW
Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
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SYNOPSIS
A gripping adventure of epic proportions, "The Four Feathers" is a story of heroic redemption, undying loyalty and rivalry in love. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, intense battle sequences, disturbing images, violence, and some sensuality
RUNTIME
2 hours, 10 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 20, 2002
Video: Feb 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Pictures
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Dramas, British, World War I, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Four Feathers Site
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 "The Four Feathers is definitely horse feathers, but if you go in knowing that, you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, STACIWILSON.COM
"Adrift, Bentley and Hudson stare and sniffle, respectively, as Ledger attempts, in vain, to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
"Kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for (or worth rooting against, for that matter)."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
 "Not far beneath the surface, this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"A wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung, but explains its characters’ decisions only unsatisfactorily."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Caso você sinta necessidade de sair da sala antes do término da projeção, não se preocupe: ninguém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"It's a good film, but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'epic'."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"The vistas are sweeping and the acting is far from painful."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"Kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"It's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure, as long as you don't try to look too deep into the story"
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"The story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense, which director Shekhar Kapur supplies with tremendous skill."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"A beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic.'"
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"The film's center will not hold."
-- Steve Simels, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
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"The movie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in Hollywood's hastier productions."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, DALLAS OBSERVER
"A beautiful, entertaining two hours. You get the idea, though, that Kapur intended the film to be more than that."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"The story is lacking any real emotional impact, and the plot is both contrived and cliched."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose, and in that oh-so-important category, The Four Feathers comes up short."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"...a vast adventure that bristles with romance, action and heroism."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"A compelling yarn, but not quite a ripping one."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Considering the harsh locations and demanding stunts, this must have been a difficult shoot, but the movie proves rough going for the audience as well."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Unfortunately, Kapur modernizes A.E.W. Mason’s story to suit the sensibilities of a young American, a decision that plucks “The Four Feathers” bare."
-- Christopher Smith, BANGOR DAILY NEWS (MAINE)
"Beautifully filmed and well acted... but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"What makes this latest version of The Four Feathers the best so far are the beautiful desert locations (in Morocco), and the superb action sequences."
-- Shirley Sealy, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
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ROTTEN 38%
Avg. Rating: 5.7/10 |
"Its battle scenes are dynamic, its pageantry spectacular and its characters appealing."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Director Kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure, and this is a better film than his earlier English-language movie, the overpraised Elizabeth."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"The Four Feathers has rewards, from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Director Shekhar Kapur and screenwriters Michael Schiffer and Hossein Amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things, but the barriers finally prove to be too great."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"For all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that Kapur tries to bring to The Four Feathers, the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"There's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film ... or the emotional integrity of the performances."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Weighted down with slow, uninvolving storytelling and flat acting."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"Ledger does a great job in the action sequences and the more tender scenes."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Instead of panoramic sweep, Kapur gives us episodic choppiness, undermining the story's emotional thrust."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"An old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore."
-- Shlomo Schwartzberg, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
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