The Sun Also Rises (1957)

The greatest movie ever!

just watch it!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Any book, novel, movie, narrative, consists of a protagonist, opposition and a desire line that drives it forward. Along the way, there will be a climax and a revelation that changes the main character in unexpected ways. The stakes should be high for the main character, and their challenge significant. Here we have no plot whatsoever for about 1.5 hours and then a tepid "fight" of three men for one woman. There is no tension, and no real struggle forward. Some wonderful acting by Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert. Prolonged scenes of bullfights might have been novel in the 1950's but are plodding and dull additions to a dud of a film. The rotten tomatoes review of 37% is generous.

Puting aside all Hemingway means as successful writer he had a bad behavior about the primitive bullfightes where in Spain,Portugal,mainly in Latin America this kind of outdated game stand for the lower ground of society,God's sake this games have been banned nowadays,the picture unfortunately is around this bloody game....the picture disgrace a great Errol Flynn who play itself as a drunk man,they could spare your name for this mess,in fact bad miscasting in this movie,the whole thing are saved by Tyrone and Ava with your endless beauty,the movie has some moments that deserves a propper respect,daring to touch in a very important matter as sexual impotence in that time,by this and Ava 7/10!!Resume:First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

I've come to the conclusion that I really don't care for Hemingway. Simply not my cup of tea. And, I don't really care for this film, even though it has a lot going for it: on-location Technicolor photography that is sometimes stunning, and a dream cast.But the movie is slow. I began writing this review just about half-way through the film, and my sentiment was what's the point? Interestingly, I found acting here decent. Tyrone Power does look older than his years here, but I am becoming more and more convinced that we sometimes underrate his acting. I'm not at all a fan of Ava Gardner, but she is very good here, and quite lovely. Mel Ferrer...well, not impressive. Eddie Albert decent...so sad he eventually devolved to "Green Acres". The real shocker is Errol Flynn. Once, such a big star, and here reduced to 4th billing! Yes, he had aged badly, but the problem is that he didn't seem to take this part very seriously.A lavish production, but what's the point. Disappointing.

There's no other way to describe this other than a major disappointment. On paper it was a great opportunity to finally do right by Hemingway - something that still eludes filmmakers - his first real novel (he had published The Torrents Of Spring, a parody, earlier), an immediate best seller chock full of interesting characters and set against a backdrop of Paris and Pamplona (all Hemingway's novels were set outside the USA, Italy twice, Spain twice, Havana, Paris, the Gulf Stream)all one had to do was acquire the rights, commission a screenplay and assemble the right cast. Aye, there's the rub; where Hemingway's characters were lost youths who had been fighting a war less than a decade before the events described in the novel Fox in their wisdom assembled an over-the-hill gang all, with the exception of Mel Ferrer, possessing fine acting chops but badly in need of a touch of jeunnesse. As drop-dead gorgeous actresses go Ava Gardner turned out consistently fine performances and does so here but only Errol Flynn rings completely true as Mike Campbell and even he is clearly too old for the part. Robert Evans demonstrates why he soon gave up acting - though surely it was vice versa - and is so bad he makes Mel Ferrer look good. Altogether a sad treatment of a landmark, albeit now dated, novel.