A hodge-podge of histrionic, ridiculous scenes cobbled together with no build up.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 105
Fresh: 29
Rotten:76
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus: Though beautifully filmed, the makers of Love in the Time of Cholera fail to transfer the novel's magic to the screen.
Theatrical Release: Nov 16, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $4,584,886
Synopsis: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA straddles the line between pop and art, and manages to be both a bestseller and a literary masterpiece. With an excellent cast and a timeless story, Mike Newell's cinematic... [More]
Starring: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno
Director: Mike Newell
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Reviews for Love in the Time of Cholera
No, Love in the Time of Cholera is not the masterpiece that its source material is, but by choosing not to top the original it still ends up mostly succeeding as a film.
07/31/08
Unlike the unfilmable novel, Newell’s discordant picture exhibits the worst symptoms of fever itself: unpleasant to endure and then quickly forgotten.
05/30/08
Though Cartagena in the late 19th Century is beautifully evoked in director Mike Newell’s visually sumptuous film, there’s something missing at the core of this love story.
05/29/08
If further proof were needed of my dispiriting theory that the best novels rarely make the best films, it is to be found, richly scented and sumptuously packaged, in Love in the Time of Cholera.
05/25/08
A saga about love in the most romantic of senses, Mike Nicholls' adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' acclaimed novel is one man's ode to that ethereal emotion that is an end in itself.
05/15/08
A valiant attempt to turn a complex novel into a compelling movie is hamstrung by a conventional literary sensibility, an uneven tone and, crucially, a failure to establish a moving, meaningful connection between its two major players.
03/20/08
Never read García Márquez and still waiting for a sequel to The Notebook? There's something here for you.
03/17/08
... Newell and Harwood completely missed the mark with this one, turning a complex love story into a superficial period film with no heart or heat.
03/12/08
Listless, poorly scripted, badly acted and displaying an unforgivable misinterpretation of its source material, Cholera is easily one of the worst adaptations of a great book ever mounted.
02/28/08
It's all yodeling Shakira ballads and emotional shots of the would-be lovers staring at each other until their cheeks pale from exhaustion
01/29/08
El universo literario de Gabriel García Márquez como sólo Hollywood podía hacerlo: vistoso, prolijo, insípido, superficial. Ni siquiera Javier Bardem logra rescatarlo del olvido.
01/14/08
mono toy katorthoma, na se kanei na mi biazesai idiaitera na diabaseis to biblio sto opoio basizetai
01/14/08
Despite some lovely design and cinematography, Mike Newell's adaptation of the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is ruined before it can get going by some disastrous casting.
12/21/07
A novel about endless devotion has been turned into a film that seems to go on forever.
11/27/07
Is love a disease, as Marquez possibly wanted us to believe? Maybe, but in the case of this adaptation, it's more of a laughing sickness.
11/21/07
The characters are never sufficiently formed to be both likable and absurd at the same time -- and ultimately they're really neither.
11/20/07
Sometimes you’re watching a bad movie, and you’re like, 'Well, I’m still entertained,' so I’m recommending it on that sort of level.
11/19/07
Top Critic Adaptation of Marquez masterpiece marred by absence of magical realism.
11/18/07
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November 17, 2007:
This sorry interpretation of Marquez, substituting serial coupling and uncoupling and gratuitous nudity for spirituality, has merely reduced his masterpiece into a titillating, superficial soap opera. 
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