Video Review

The Beach (2012)

Reviewed by Erin Richter | Jul 28, 2000
EW's GRADE
B-

Details Movie Rated: R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery and Thriller, Romance; With: Leonardo DiCaprio and Virginie Ledoyen; Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Isolated from his modern-day-hippie islandmates, Leonardo DiCaprio briefly goes Apocalypse Now Brando, launching the most inspired sequence of The Beach, an ambling meditation on paradise and innocence lost from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle. Longing for spiritual and intellectual depth, both DiCaprio's traveler and the film itself suffer from an overabundance of style in the pursuit of substance. B-

Originally posted Jul 28, 2000 Published in issue #551-552 Jul 28, 2000 Order article reprints
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