This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The more that I watch this film, the more it creeps up my top 100 film's of all time list. This film is an overlooked gem nowadays, even though it won a lot of awards back in 96.

An undeniable masterpiece and it almost puts every other film ever made to shame. Seriously give it another try if you don't believe me and if you have watched it more than once and you still aren't a fan then what can I say.

The direction and storytelling are impeccable and the cast all around are outstanding! Especially Juliette Binoche! And Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews (brilliant) and Colin Firth and freaking amazing.

Yep, I like this movie just as much as Taxi Driver, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Magnolia and Pulp Fiction...rounding out my top 5 film's.

A sweeping epic tale of an ill fated love that transcends distance, time and even death!

I found the slow reveal thru a series of flashbacks to be deliriously intoxicating!

Extraordinary performances by one and all! However I felt Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche performances were beyond exceptional!

The visuals were absolutely breathtaking!

These straights had my heart racing!

"I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all."

The English Patient is so magical, pure and also hot: firstly because of Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth and only then because of the scroching sun in the desert. This is a slow-burn but it's incredible to dive into the characters' lives, their love, their pain and experiences that jumps from the sweet and dreamy past to the bitter and nightmarish present, from the saturated colors of the past to the cold ones of the present, and then when the war begins, both the past and the present become cold and hostile, but to see how people can find the good in music and love during such events it's always truly amazing and moving.

In filmaffinity it note is a 7’1.

would like to present the english patient era ralph fiennes w the award for broodiest sexiest most flawed yet lovable male protagonist in existence!!! pls collect your award ralph and also hold me for the next 10 millenia bc i’m still crying thanks!!!!!

There is a lot in this film that appeals: great actors; a sweeping, epic story; the beautiful and unfamiliar backdrop of the desert. But some crucial things just didn't click. Ralph Fiennes comes across as arrogant and vain, as he seems to do in many films. Perhaps this was an accurate reflection of his character, but I couldn't see why anyone would fall in love with him.

In general, despite the top-quality cast, I found it hard to relate to many of the characters. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what was wrong.

It's a tragedy, so to accuse the film of being depressing might be stating the obvious but I found it hard to get through it.

not as bad as elaine says

Seinfeld...made some points with this one

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Decent To Strong 4/10

Great performances from all of the cast. Ralph Fiennes is a seriously underrated actor!

The Oscar Best Picture Project: Entry 29

The English Patient is a film that I can recognize as a well crafted film and can see why it got the praise that it did, but if I'm being perfectly honest, this was one that I personally didn't enjoy. I felt that the last third of the movie was excellent when everything comes together and you get the grand revelation of the film, but everything before we get to that point just felt slow and tedious to get through. I honestly feel that if they had cut 30-40 minutes from the runtime particularly in the middle of the film, I would have like it a lot better as the pace would have been kept up and would have made the film seem less slow.

Beautiful film. Very romantic. Having said that, I'm very well aware that both the beauty and the romance come at the expense of the subjugated people of the colonial European powers—oh let's go trot around in the desert with the natives, oh we found this lovely cave with ancient paintings, let's have the natives do all our manual labor to excavate it, oh let's have dinner and an affair in this lovely tiled garden while the natives wait on us, etc.