The Beach (DVD) Reviews

Yer I know Leonardo DiCaprio has has his day and most of his previous film have been about as enjoyable as sticking pins in your eyes- But actually i quite like this film - infact i have it on dvd and have watched it several times! Its one of them films that have a bit of everything- there is adventure, there is romance, there is a tiny ...

The Beach is a movie based on the excellent debut novel by Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young American (in the book he's British) travelling to Asia, looking for adventure. By pure chance, he finds the adventure that he was looking for, the room he decided to stay the night in was next to someone who ...

The beach..... - Advantages: Good storyline, nice setting, good actors - Disadvantages: Drags on a bit, can be a bit gross

I rented out the beach quite some time ago, to watch during an otherwise uneventful evening in. I'm afraid that my immediate impressions as I sat there watching it were Waaay too much swearing. I know it makes it more realistic etc, but it does make me feel slightly uncomfortable and I dont think there is any real need for quite so much. ...

I like most of the female population was in love with Leo when this film came out. Everybody was still getting over Titanic and The Man in the Iron Mask, both mainstream box office smashes, but when I went to see the beach I was shocked and disappointed. I was expecting a story just out of Hollywood, with romance, excitement and far off ...

Well, I'm not to sure whether I liked this movie or not. I'm not really a Leonardo Dicaprio fan and have never seen any of his movies untill the other week whilst chilling out in front of the T.V. when The Beach came on. I thought I'd watch to see if it was any good. Leonardo plays a young man named Richard, a man who is ...

This film is based on a book by Alex Garland, and because of it's cult following, even before the film was in production I had heard of the story. There was many rumours about who would play the lead character Richard, and eventually it was given to Leonardo DiCaprio hot off the back of Titanic's success, much to the annoyance of Ewan ...

As with everything I try to write about recently, there is no category for the new release "28 Days Later" - I could have sworn there was, but there you go. I have chosen this category to put my review in as it was the last film done by the same director and writer, and I was damned if I was going to bin my words after putting the ...

The Beach is proof that a cast of good looking young people and superb scenery don't necessary make a good movie. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Richard an American back-packer exploring the delights of Thailand. While staying in a flea pit motel in Bangkok he meets Daffy (Robert Carlyle) a raving lunatic who leaves him a map just before he ...

Ahh, a movie with Leonardo Di Caprio in the starring role - what could be more enjoyable? Perhaps an evening spent sticking pins in your eyes eh? I've had the misfortune of enduring three of Leo's other movies before this one: Critters 3 (which he can't be blamed for), The Man In The Iron Mask where he's miserably miscast in a crap ...

"The Beach" is a great film trapped inside a Hollywood movie. The premise and idea's within the film are really cool, you've got travel, romance, comedy, a deliberately annoying American, gorgeous cinematography and witty dialogue. So what went wrong? The main problem with this movie (not a film) is the cultural differences ...

Many films are hyped so much before the release that you feel you have actually seen the film before it is released. This was very much the case with 'The Beach', and I was not expecting any surprises. Based on the novel by Alex Garland, and brought to us by the team behind 'Trainspotting', 'Shallow Grave' and ...

The Beach begins with backpacker Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) slouching through Thailand, drinking snake's blood and fighting off the exotic bugs in his hotel room. Then a loony (Robert Carlyle) in the room next door offers him a hand-drawn map to a secret island where peaceful hippies frolic in the surf and smoke pot all day; Carlos Castaneda ...

I guess if you’re not from my part of the world that title won’t really mean all that much to you! Following on from his success in the 1997 James Cameron epic ‘Titanic’, Leonardo DiCaprio was (I feel) looking for a role that would be the complete opposite of his crowd-pleasing, acting by numbers performance ...

"The Beach" by Alex Garland is a magnificent book, a book like no other. "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a average film, a film like all the others. "based" on the book, means it has the key elements, but it is nothing like the book. Richard (DiCaprio), is a American traveller, ...

Basically, the advert shows all the highlights of the film. After so much hype at its original release, it is a bit of a let down, but it is a watchable film. A young american man decides to take a year out (from what we are never exactly sure) and travel the world. He lands in Thailand, but realises this is where every backpacker heads ...

Richard, played by Leonardo Dicaprio, travels to Thailand in the hope of doing something different, instead of just being a typical tourist. On his first night in the hotel he has what can only be described as an extremely wierd conversation with a bloke named Daffy, played by Robert Carlyle(trainspotting). The fact that Daffy was found ...

This adventure is based on the book of the same name, which was a huge hit, although I have been told they are somewhat different. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Richard, a young American who travels to the far east in search of a more meaningful life. He arrives at Thailand where he meets Daffy (Robert Carlyle). Daffy is quite ...

Big baby blue eyes and all those other infant like traits - a head rather too big for his helpless wee body, the sort of arrangement of features which all the females go "Ooh" at, only this time it's with rather more basic urges than Mumsy ones. Leonardo Di Caprio, these are the reasons all right thinking males despise you with an ...

This film is based on the acclaimed Alex Garland novel. I haven't actually read the novel so I can't judge for myself, but I'm told that this film is quite different from the book. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Richard, a young American backpacker who travels to Thailand looking for adventure. He soon discovers that life is just as ...