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Swept Away
EMAILPRINTColumbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment

Overwhelming dislike
Based on 27 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 22 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by: Guy Ritchie
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 11, 2002
DVD: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / UK
Summary
RATING: R for language and some sexuality/nudity
Starring Madonna, Adriano Giannini, Elizabeth Banks, Bruce Greenwood, Patrizio Rispo, and Jeanne Tripplehorn
Guy Ritchie's contemporary adaptation of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 romantic comedy, a story of love, sex, drugs and too much money -- all set against the backdrop of a Mediterranean island paradise. (Sony)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Ritchie made a movie that never pretends to be more than a guilty pleasure of soft-core kitsch, and Madonna and Giannini (son of Giancarlo, costar of the original) achieve a lively S&M chemistry.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
At its best, Swept Away is like a scrapbook of postcards starring two lovebirds with great tans.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Madonna herself is not so much terrible as merely uninvolving. She's quite credible as the harpy of the first act, but she can't pull off the transition and the spark that makes a movie star instantly sympathetic.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The effectiveness of this kind of issue-driven give and take relies heavily on casting, and Ritchie puts himself at a disadvantage: Madonna looks terrific in a bikini but she can't act, and the younger Giannini is stunt casting.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Schizoid romantic comedy -- The first half of the movie is full of broad but capable comedy, but the original film's sexual and class politics are clumsily handled, and the mood turns serious with all the subtlety of a falling guillotine blade.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
A simple misfire rather than a world-class fiasco. This misguided attempt to remake Lina Wertmuller's corrosive 1974 satire as a wistful romance is only unintentionally funny in the last reel.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
One hopes that this is Hollywood's last go-round with Swept Away. Watching this fiasco, I kept having nightmares about a possible cartoon version, co-starring Cruella de Vil and Shrek.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
The fact that Swept Away got made at all implies there simply is no dissuading Madonna from her movie-star aspirations. Her tenacity is admirable, but it's also block-headed.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
A bad movie. No amount of perfume sprayed on talk show audiences by Madonna and her husband can eliminate the stench of failure emanating from this motion picture.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Madonna may be better in this film than she's been in some of her recent endeavors, especially when she stops screeching her lines, but she's done herself no favors with her choice of material.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
For starters, it blows. Madonna continues to mistake a knack for striking poses with the interpretive skill of a real actor.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A deserted island movie during which I desperately wished the characters had chosen one movie to take along if they were stranded on a deserted island, and were showing it to us instead of this one.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
No less laughable is the ending, where Ritchie neatly reflects today's prevailing attitude -- that audiences can't be trusted to handle a hint of ambiguity, but can live happily with flat-out stupidity.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The junior Giannini, who has inherited Giancarlo's handsome looks, portrays his mercurial character with energy and flair. Madonna doesn't. Indeed, it's hard to remember the last time a certified celebrity gave a performance so monotonous, unimaginative, and all-around tiresome to watch.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
At no point should anyone mistake this for an actual movie. This is an extended beach video that will leave no one swept away.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
There is no credible feeling here, no comedy, no eroticism.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Merely an indulgent vehicle for Mrs. Ritchie -- and Madonna is so spectacularly convincing as a hateful, self-absorbed, nouveau riche ogress that her character's third-act transformation is as preposterous as her overmuscled physique.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
Suggests that we're supposed to take this love story as something more than farce. Please. Tom Hanks fucking that volleyball would have been more convincing.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Ritchie's frivolous comedy tries to have it both ways, thinning out the material for mass consumption while still sticking to the script -- an unstable alchemy that backfires horribly.
Read Full Review >Newsweek Jeff Giles
It stinks. The movie is so inert -- and Madonnas performance so starkly amateurish -- that its impossible to take it seriously as an allegory about class and gender.
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Isn't dubbed. But it sure feels like it. The characters open their mouths and their lips don't seem to be shaping the right words -- you can't believe any human beings would ever utter such ludicrous dialogue, with so little conviction.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The film turns out to have nothing going for it at all, except a small charge for soul-deep Madonna haters.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
If you were expecting Ritchie to discover something in Madonna that no one else has, something like, say, acting talent, forget it.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Michael Dequina
It certainly didn't take long for Madonna to ruin husband Guy Ritchie's career.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Even camp status eludes this tepid and misguided picture.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
A shrill, amateurish two-character play that demeans women and leaves men with the quaint notion that the best way to a woman's heart is through enslavement.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mark C gave it a6:
OK, it is not a movie that overloaded critics with perception disorders would expect, but it a is little fun for average viewers. One can feel so much hate towards Madonna and Ritchie prior to making an objective judgments from critics.
Chuck W. gave it a0:
The original was a decent enough film, but this one is a pale copy. Don't waste your time with this drivel.
Sunny Y. gave it a10:
This movie is so fascinating...and sexy.. I really dont get it the critics...
Diane W. gave it a 1:
Just awful, slow, painful,acting awful, plot awful, Madonna awful, a wste of your life.
Da A. gave it a 7:
I don't understand everyone. I liked this movie. She was unhappy in love who became happy in love. I thought Madonna was realistic in her role. And the male interest was easy on the eyes. Whats wrong with you guys!!!!
Michelle B gave it an 8:
I really liked the span of the camera, how the the backround drapped the emotions and moments.
Dorothy A. gave it a 10:
This was the best love story I have seen and I now have a new respect for Madonna.
