1492: Conquest of Paradise (Blu-ray) PG-13
Centuries before the exploration of space, there was another voyage into the unknown.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 6, 2017
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Armand Assante & Frank Langella | |
Performer: | Fernando Rey, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina, Michael Wincott, Tchéky Karyo, Kevin Dunn, Arnold Vosloo & Mark Margolis | |
Directed by | Ridley Scott | |
Edited by | William Anderson, Françoise Bonnot, Les Healey, Armen Minasian & Deborah Zeitman | |
Screenwriting by | Roselyne Bosch | |
Composition by | Vangelis | |
Produced by | Ridley Scott & Alain Goldman | |
Director of Photography: | Adrian Biddle | |
Executive Production by | Iain Smith & Mimi Polk |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Over-ambitious but still utterly beautiful
Film Threat
Rating: 2/4 --
A beautifully constructed drag that never seems to become the grand epic it truly wants to be.
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From the Front Row
Rating: 3/5 --
Not quite sure why this one tanked as badly as it did; I thought it was gorgeously realized, myself.
Needcoffee.com
Rating: C --
An uneven film and overlong, but not without some merit.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This $50 million spectacle must be one of the least entertaining epic films ever made.
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Newsweek
The film doesn't, as it should have done, make any profound attempt to examine the split between good and evil within Christopher Columbus himself.
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The Spectator
Here's a one-word review of 1492: hubris.
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Newsweek
Product Description:
Gérard Depardieu stars as Christopher Columbus in director Ridley Scott's epic film that chronicles the explorer's voyages and tribulations. Obsessed with his vision of pursuing a western route to Asia, in 1492, Columbus petitions Isabella (Sigourney Weaver), the Spanish queen, to fund his voyage, and with the help of her treasurer, Sanchez (Armand Assante), he finally succeeds in gaining her backing. Setting off in three ships, Columbus plies uncharted waters for weeks on end until his crew, exhausted and near starvation, threatens to mutiny. But the explorer rallies the men with an impassioned speech about the importance of the mission, and shortly thereafter they land in the New World. The crew establishes amicable relations with the native people, and Columbus leaves some of his men behind on his return to Spain, where he is greeted as a hero by the queen, eager to know what he has found. Upon his return to the New World, Columbus finds that a number of his crew have been killed, but insists on treating the Indians humanely, establishing a colonial government. Yet the colonists' relations with the Indians continue to worsen, and Columbus is recalled by Isabella. In a film that features Scott's typically breathtaking photography, the scene of Columbus's arrival at the fog-enshrouded New World is especially notable.
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