High Fidelity (DVD) Reviews

I had wanted to see this film for a while as i had heard a few different people say that it was really good so was excited to see it. It came on Sky a few days ago so i recorded it and watched it today. If you have never seen High Fidelity, it is a romantic comedy that came to our screens in 2000. It was directed by Stephen ...  Read the complete review

High Fidelity is a comedy from 2000, starring John Cusack and directed by Stephen Frears. It is adapted from the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. On a mini Cusack marathon at the moment! Here he stars as Rob Gordon, an independent recordstore owner, who on splitting up with his girlfriend Laura (Danish actress Iben Hjejle) compiles a ...  Read the complete review

It has taken me ages to get round to watching this film. Its one that I've always fancied and I always heard really positive reviews of it. So I recently got round to giving it a go. High Fidelity came out back in 2000. Its a kind of dark comedy starring John Cusack and Jack Black. Based on the excellent book by Nick Hornby and ...  Read the complete review

High Fidelity would be in my all time top ten movie list definitely. I love it. I love the plot, the characters, John Cusack, the sound track, Jack Black, everything. I even like the DVD disc as it looks like a little record. This film is based on the book by Nick Hornby. The screenplay was written by John Cusack, D.V. DeVincentis and ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on The Student Room and Flixster High Fidelity is an excellent adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel of the same name about a man who recalls all of his past relationships. Purists might be a little turned off by the fact that the London locale and cultural context has been changed to an American one, but ...  Read the complete review

I was petrified when i read that this film was being made and being made in America and updated with a more current soundtrack and discussions, but when i watched the film i was pleasantly surprised. The film is a adaptation of one of my favorite books written by Nick Hornby and set in a record shop in London. In this adaptation the ...  Read the complete review

I saw this for the third time last week, and was reminded of what a cracking film this is. Having read the book years ago, you always are a little cautious when approaching a film version, especially when the film had relocated the story to America in order to please Hollywood. In fact the re-location gives the film a slightly different feel (in a ...  Read the complete review

Oh how I love this film. I so much enjoyed the book that I was really nervous how it would turn out - but I need not have worried. John Cusack is brilliant in the lead role, and this remains Jack Black's best performance to date on the big screen. As a massive music fan, there are so many little moments in the movie to which I can relate, from ...  Read the complete review

Director: Stephen Frears Cast: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Luiso, Jack Black. Release date: 7th May 2001 Length: 109 mins (1 disc) DVD extras: Deleted scenes, interviews with Stephen Frears and John Cusack, trailer. Rob Gordon is an emotionally immature, 30-something vinyl addict. When not holding inane ...  Read the complete review

High Fidelity is a movie about real people living their very real lives. It is a quirky and fun movie with some very likable and interesting characters. The actors who play these characters do a really great job I might add. This movie is so great because it is very easy to relate to, which makes it all the more wonderful. John Cusack ...  Read the complete review

I'll be honest from the start. I first watched this film, not because I had read the book (by Nick Hornby) and loved it, but because I had a crush on John Cusack... I know not the best reason.... But, hey, don't judge me!! John Cusack plays Rob Gordon, he is a serial list maker, who has lost his long term girlfriend. To help him 'heal' ...  Read the complete review

An excellent adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel that moves the story from London to Chicago, retaining the dry wit of the author's world of love, loss and music. John Cusack plays Rob, a music-store owner going through a breakup, which prompts him to search out the reasons for his lacklustre luck in relationships and his deadbeat ...  Read the complete review

This is a good movie, one i have watched many a time. It stars the very popular John Cusack, who plays rob, a record store owner. Rob breaks up with his longtime girlfriend Laura, and after much talking in this movie, Rob decides to make a list of the top 5 girls he has broken up with. The film, sees john cusacks character, talking ...  Read the complete review

Over the years there have been many plays, books, poems, songs and films devoted to defining masculinity. From Shakespeare's 'Seven Stages of Man' and hetero life partners Hamlet and Horatio right through to Laura Mulvey's assertions that the movie camera is a penis and hetero life partners Jay and Silent Bob - the mystery of what makes a man has ...  Read the complete review

John Cusack ? he?s become a bit of an all rounder, and this was the movie that really started it for me. He was great in ?Grosse Point Blank?, the movie that I think first brought him to my attention. ?High Fidelity?, though - this was the one that made me realise he was a pretty good all rounder, and in fact made me go on to go and see as ...  Read the complete review

If you're looking for a well-balanced, appeals-to-most-people kind of movie, then you've found it in Stephen Frears's 'High Fidelity'. Choc-full of a delicious blend of side-splitting comedy, aching moments of sadness, inspired bouts of sarcasm, a cracking soundtrack and excellent acting, this film is undeniably a treat to ...  Read the complete review

Do you like compiling Top 5 lists? If you do, then this is the film for you. Adapted from a Nick Hornby novel, John Cusack stars is the lead role as Rob Gordon, the downtrodden, neurotic record store owner, whose store, Championship Vinyl is rarely frequented by a customer. A lot of this may be down to his less than welcoming assistant ...  Read the complete review

There have not been many classic comedys around lately, there has been the odd good one, but the genre has been let down by films like the parole officer. But finally there is a film called high fidelity, that is the saviour of comedy films The hero of High Fidelity is played with succinct charm by John Cusack. Rob is a self-centered ...  Read the complete review

Nick Hornby has written some great books, with High Fidelity certainly being one of them, but Hornby's books are quintessentially English, so there was certainly a fair amount of trepidation regarding how the book of London would be translated into the film of Chicago. Clearly prior knowledge of the book gives you a prejudiced view of life, ...  Read the complete review

Rob Gordon makes lists. He has a top 5 of everything, including people. Superficial? Yes, and he knows it. It helps him get through life if he can catalogue its events and heartaches and file them away in neat little piles. Or so he thinks. When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, he copes by categorising the break-up of their relationship ...  Read the complete review