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In the end you feel like you've been taken on a pleasing, professionally run tourist trip that let you enjoy the sights without ever really inhabiting the land.
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75If you're seeking transcendent love this season, skip the morose "End of the Affair" and go with Anna and the King.
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75Entertaining but predictable, and too long.
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75A big, handsome throwback to star-powered historical costume movies.
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75Will remind filmgoers that one of the chief pleasures of going to the movies is a good old-fashioned swoon
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70This is a smart and splendidly decorated rethinking of Anna Leonowens's famous chronicle
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70Grand entertainment in the old-fashioned sense.
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70It is Foster who presents the biggest single problem, delivering a monochromatic performance that finds her character not much more than flinty and strained.
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63The kind of unsophisticated family entertainment they supposedly don't make anymore.
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63Yun-Fat is magnetic and majestic, and the story, no matter that it is not entirely true, continues to fascinate.
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63Foster and Yun-Fat each show about three-quarters of their characters.
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60The problem with Anna and the King is that it's caught halfway between then and now--- the film tries to throw in notions of cultural relativism and big power imperialism, but can't do without corny shtick.
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60Has the rambling pace of an episodic 1950s costume drama.
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60Hollywood rarely mounts these lavish period epics anymore. It's nice to see them try, even if the result is somewhat less than heart-stopping.
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60Cutting through the epic gesturings of Andy Tennant's direction, he (Yun-Fat Chow) provides reason enough to return one last time to this otherwise weary romance
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60Old-fashioned Hollywood filmmaking at its best .
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60A musical number or two might have balanced the overdetermined politics and spectacle in this version.
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60Focuses on everything and nothing like a grown-up Disney phenom, making it a great family movie enjoyable for everyone.
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59Despite good performances and moments of spectacle, it seems to go on longer than the Cultural Revolution.
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58It's a painstakingly correct update of what is, let's face it, one of the least culturally correct love stories ever to be mythologized by Hollywood.
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58It pales in comparison to its two classic predecessors, and also just generally feels like one too many trips to the well.
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50Foster, I believe, sees right through this material and out the other side, and doesn't believe in a bit of it.
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50Doesn't develop enough momentum to justify its too-long running time.
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50Chow Yun-Fat is the only reason to see Anna and the King -- the only thing you'll remember from this lavish, tastefully dull movie.
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50Before it runs off track--it does have some spectacular moments.
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50The movie is something of a white elephant itself, a luxuriant, lumbering behemoth. It is pleasant, occasionally amusing - and often dull.
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50Leaves an unpleasant aftertaste: viewers will find that a musical can indeed help the medicine go down
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50Dusted off for one more run-through, and for those who applauded "Titanic's" old-is-new ethos, the moth-eaten, barely breathing Anna and the King will serve as a slap in the face.
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50The lack of chemistry between he (Yun-Fat) and Foster is truly striking: so much so, in fact, that the strain of trying to manufacture some keeps her looking on the verge of outright illness throughout.
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50Her (Foster's) performance is contained in a schmaltzy, ultra-elaborate, overly long production.
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50Fails as the big-screen romance it wants to be. The main problem: There's only one heart between the principals, and it beats solely in Chow's chest.
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40Colorful and a passable drama, one that highlights the difficulties of cross-cultural love affairs and the exoticism of the Third World.
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