Video Review

Les Miserables

Reviewed by David Everitt | Nov 06, 1998
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Movie Rated: PG-13; Genres: Drama, Historical; With: Claire Danes, Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush and Uma Thurman

A reminder of how Victor Hugo's novel plays without production numbers. Still a vivid saga of one man's monomania and another's redemption, Les Miserables, thanks to director Bille August and scripter Rafael Yglesias, is nearly as compelling as the 1935 Fredric March-Charles Laughton version. Neeson simmers with torment as fugitive Jean Valjean. Rush's Inspector Javert isn't as flamboyant as Laughton (who is?), but he tracks Valjean with methodical coldness and unsettling logic. B+

Originally posted Nov 06, 1998 Published in issue #457 Nov 06, 1998 Order article reprints
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