Cast of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery Reviews
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery lacks even the misplaced energy of a camp folly. It's limp and exhausted -- a bloodless swashbuckler. Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Released in 1,492 theaters on Friday, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery should be gone from most of them faster than you can hoist the mainsails and shiver your timbers. Chicago Tribune Gene Siskel
George Corraface would look more comfortable in a Calvin Klein underwear ad than at the helm of a ship. Orlando Sentinel Jay Boyar
Cast in the title role is George Corraface, whose credits include Not Without My Daughter and Impromptu. Does he overact? Let's just say that I think I heard him frown. Seattle Times Jeff Shannon
The film benefits greatly from the use of three totally authentic ship replicas, but the real thing -- as presented in the PBS series about Columbus -- is still much more inspiring. BrianOrndorf.com Brian Orndorf
The drama never catches fire, cycling through the same beats of uncertainty and blame to a point of screen stasis. The opening driving montage of Manos: The Hands of Fate has more of a filmmaking zip. Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This movie takes one of history's great stories and treats it in such a lackluster manner that Columbus' voyage seems as endless to us as it did to his crew. Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
The Discovery comes across more like cut-rate, bargain-basement ABC Movie of the Week than it does as a legitimate take on that squirrelly little explorer of yore. Los Angeles Times Peter Rainer
It's not politically correct. It's also not cinematically correct, humanly correct or historically correct. John Glen's take on the Genovese explorer adds up to perfectly serviceable commercial entertainment -- there are a few moments where Kirk Douglas or Charlton Heston would have felt right at home. New York Times Vincent Canby
Expensive, sloppy and, at its most ambitious, a frail reminder of the Warner Brothers swashbucklers that Michael Curtiz used to turn out with Errol Flynn. Washington Post Rita Kempley
What it offers is a portrait of the Genoan visionary as sea hunk, and manages to make the portentous moment of discovery, the setting of feet on the sands, about as emotionally thrilling as two-man beach volleyball. South Florida Sun-Sentinel Candice Russell
Dry as an outdated textbook, scintillating as the droning of your worst schoolteacher, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery is a colossal disaster. Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Most of the picture is so hilariously Hollywooden that nobody could mistake it for real history. People Magazine Ralph Novak
All right, maybe the world isn't flat. But this listless historical epic sure is. Moviehole Caffeinated Clint
zzzzzzzzz This daft biographical epic reveals that the Europeans came West in search of many things: a new trade route to India and China; new souls to be converted to Christianity; new sources of gold; and new girlfriends with larger breasts.
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