Video Review

The Last Emporer

MPAA Rating: Unrated, PG-13
Reviewed by Troy Patterson | Mar 05, 1999
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Movie Rateds: PG-13, Unrated; Genres: Drama, Historical; With: Joan Chen, John Lone and Peter O'Toole; Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Numbingly beautiful, numbingly long, the director's cut of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 Best Picture winner clocks in at a taxing 218 minutes, with the extra hour mainly devoted to unnecessary extended footage of sumptuous chinoiserie. B+

Originally posted Mar 05, 1999 Published in issue #475 Mar 05, 1999 Order article reprints