Don Quixote

2015

Action / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy

20
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29%
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 506 506

16th century

Plot summary

With his noble squire by his side, a retired country gentleman sets out on an adventure to right the wrongs of the world.

Director

David Beier Photo
David Beier

Top cast

James Franco Photo
James Franco as Pasamonte
Luis Guzmán Photo
Luis Guzmán as Farmer
Lin Shaye Photo
Lin Shaye as The Grand Lady
Carmen Argenziano Photo
Carmen Argenziano as Don Quixote
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
612.22 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 2
1.27 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by attyfam

Based more on the musical than the novel

This version of Don Quixote, though it carries the subtitle of the novel itself, is based more on the musical "The Man of La Mancha" than on the novel. I admit that no film of the usual length could ever capture the richness and complexity of even Part 1 of the novel (Part 2 being ignored by most interpreters). A mini-series would be required to attempt to do justice to the novel. But the plot line here really aligns more with the musical than the book.One thing that drove me crazy from the start: The letter "o" in the word "Don" is, throughout, pronounced like the "o" in the first syllable of "Donald", rather than like the "o" in phone. "Don" in Spanish is a title (like "Sir"), not a name. They could at least have pronounced it properly and not thereby announced the American origins of the film linguistically.
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Reviewed by corydonhurst 4 / 10

I wanted it to be good...

Very good cameos, yet so far from the original, and so choppy as to lose any semblance of accuracy. Superfluous scenes of Sancho and his wife in bed...

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