Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery a swashbuckler? Is it a revisionist history? A celebration? Condemnation? All or none of the above? Well, yes it is, and that's just part of the problem.To be honest, it's not really THAT bad. It's not... Full review

Do not go into this movie expecting a strictly serious biography of Christopher Columbus. This is an adventure movie by the same producers of The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Superman III, Supergirl, and Santa... Full review

I leave it to the viewers good graces to determine whether or not they will watch this film. Most of you will not, and I commend you. There are certainly more worthwhile things to do with your time. However, having... Full review

This great swashbuckler is completely underrated! Made in the style of the 1940s adventures with Tyrone Power, this film is fun and exciting and I definitely recommend it. And the cast! It's so cool to see the great Brando pass... Full review

I had a wonderful time watching this film. I know it's considered by some to be inferior in comparison to the more lofty Conquest of Paradise, but I just can't help liking it. I'd rather watch Christopher Columbus: The Discovery... Full review

This seems really to be an old-fashioned adventure film, the kind the studios churned out in great numbers in the 1940's. Maybe an Errol Flynn vehicle. That's the way Georges Corraface plays it, and it's okay. Not great, but okay.... Full review

***SPOILER WARNING***If Christopher Columbus were a happy-go-lucky swashbuckler with no introspective moments in his life and no frustrations or determination to do anything but wave his sword and march around in the latest fashions then `Christopher Columbus: The Discovery' would... Full review

It's definitely not the best of movies on this topic. The story is packed with cliches, the scenery looks pretty unreal. And the cast is just terrible, except Robert Davi, who makes this movie a little more a pleasure to... Full review

Columbus must have turned in his grave because this is one of the worst films of the '90s, devoid of anything that could make it work on every level. It's a very old-fashioned adventure story, except in the old days... Full review

Really not much of anything: all the things that could have been interesting to work out (such as the enslavement of the natives) are not pursued, but rather avoided, and the cast isn't great either. Tom Selleck as the King... Full review

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery," which obviously isn't cheap, with plenty of location shooting and loads of extras, is doomed to a similar fate. ... Full Review

No wonder it plays like a cross between a comic book and a costume epic. Brando is that wooden, which is nothing unusual when it comes to this creaking old tub of a motion picture. ... Full Review

The film is wretched in most respects ( Robert Davi is a ruggedly good Martin Pinzon), but even fine writers like Louis MacNeice and Richard Nelson have been stumped by the intractability of the Columbus story: he came, he saw, he went home. ... Full Review

The movie is more generous in showing what the visitors found here. Here, as elsewhere in the movie, dialogue and motivation seem to be missing; there is a hint that Isabella is smitten with Columbus, and that Ferdinand is jealous, but the scenes have been edited so severely that only hints remain. ... Full Review

I love when stuff like this happens: Armageddon vs. Deep Impact . 1492: Conquest of Paradise vs. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery . Umm, Vice Versa vs. Like Father Like Son . You know what I mean: When two very similar ... Full Article

A n upcoming program on Discovery Channel called "COLUMBUS: SECRETS FROM THE GRAVE," which is premiering this coming Sunday, August 1st, 10PM E/P takes the position that Christopher Columbus might not have been Italian. ... Full Article

HOLLYWOOD - August is the time of year when cable television's innovator of "reality" shows, The Discovery Channel, encourages us to turn our thoughts to the possibility of being eaten alive by giant fish. ... Full Article

Will anyone want to see two movies about Christopher Columbus? Probably not, but that isn't stopping financier Alain Goldman and the team of Alex and Ilya Salkind ( Superman ) from moving ahead with simultaneous big-budget productions about the explorer. ... Full Article

GREECE'S all-time box-office champ and its submission for the 2004 foreign-language Oscar, "A Touch of Spice," is one big hunk of cinematic moussaka with lots of appetizing shots of food. ... Full Article

Plot Italian explorer Christopher Columbus is scoffed at by his contrymen when he reveals his desire to prove that the earth is round by sailing east to reach India. ... Full Article