Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

wolflair-1 I have seen the both the 1946 version with Tyrone Power and this one with Bill Murray. They are both excellent movies. I believe it is one of Bill Murray's best. Everyone else has written about the content of the movie, so there is no need to rehash it again. Watch both and make your decision. I do find I like the Bill Murray version better.

SnoopyStyle America has not entered WWI yet. Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) with his girlfriend Isabel Bradley (Catherine Hicks), his best friend Gray Maturin (James Keach) and Sophie MacDonald (Theresa Russell) live a comfortable upper class life. Larry and Gray go to Europe to drive an ambulance. After the war, Larry goes in search for himself. In Paris, he and Isabel end up not getting married as he pushes on as a coal miner and eventually cooking at a Tibetan monastery. Isabel ends up married to Gray who goes to work for his father. The Great Depression hits the family brokerage hard and Gray's father commits suicide. Sophie suffers after her husband and child are killed in a car crash. Larry runs into Isabel and Gray with their two daughters now broke in Paris. They also find Sophie who became a drug addicted prostitute.Bill Murray does a good but not a great job. He is always great at the zen jester character. He just can't reach the darker depths necessary during and right after the war. It also occurs to me that this is the story of two people. Isabel is the other person and the movie needs to zero in on that. Theresa Russell would have been a great Isabel although she's a perfectly fine Sophie in the movie. Sophie could have done by somebody more fragile. It's a good attempt by Murray but not all successful.

laserfan It is difficult for me to understand how the many fine actors in this movie (apparently) didn't know how awful they were being, as they were reading their lines. Is this the fault of the director? I'd love to know if anyone involved was *not* embarrassed after viewing the result. There are movies with "false" moments, though they can get-away with them on balance, and then there are movies with no false moments at all, and will weigh on you for a long time (the antithesis of this stinker may perhaps be Seven Years in Tibet). I have never before seen a supposedly serious movie with ALL false moments--not a single scene anywhere in this film rang true-to-life. Horribly acted by all (except perhaps James Keach who appeared to take his responsibility seriously) and just-plain-bad from beginning to end, I'm truly sorry I wasted 128 minutes on this. If not for the costumes, locations, and cinematography (and the fact that IMDb wouldn't let me anyway) I'd have give this zero stars. I think I will now look in IMDb to see what other films John Byrum has made--can we hold him responsible for this mess?

davesmagnets When I saw this movie years ago, I probably gave it a five. I wasn't ready to fully get the message. My partner has always loved this movie, so I gave it another shot tonight and it touched all the bases for me. The last couple of years we discovered Paris so the Paris scenes were great. As a Veteran and peace activist, the PTSD angle was right in my wheel house. Bill Murray is fascinating. In real life he is a seeker who travels alone and just shows in the most unlikely places. There is a sadness to him under the wise guy persona. You cansee why he wanted to make this movie. There is a lot of Larry Darrell in him! The rest of cast did a wonderful job, Therese Russell was a revelation and Catherine Hicks had the unenviable task of making people not like, which she accomplished.