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Swept Away
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Guy Ritchie
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Guy Ritchie
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 11, 2003
Video: February 11, 2003
Theatrical: October 11, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |

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...
67
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.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
At its best, Swept Away is like a scrapbook of postcards starring two lovebirds with great tans.

42
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.

40
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.

40
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.

40
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.

38
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.

38
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.

38
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.

30
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.

30
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.

25
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.

25
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.

25
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.

20
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.

20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
There is no credible feeling here, no comedy, no eroticism.

20
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.

20
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.

20
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.

10
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.
10
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.

10
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.

10
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.

10
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
It certainly didn't take long for Madonna to ruin husband Guy Ritchie's career.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Even camp status eludes this tepid and misguided picture.

0
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Not as bad as rumor would have it. It's worse.

0
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.


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