James A (jkallard)

There are movies that so reflect their time and place that to see them is to witness a masterpiece, that work that takes an average filmmaker and holds them up to all of the greats and allows us as an audience to say "From here they must be considered for the pantheon." There are moments in an actor's work that call a specific scene, a flawless line reading, and again we can say "From here..." There are films rightly regarded as Classic, so good that one can only wonder why others have not seen them. Then there are that rare few, when everything falls together, and something stabs deep into the soul, and this is The God Movie. This is one of mine. I so relate to this film, one of Lean's great works, this introduction to Peter O'Toole, that words fail me. To simply look at the "supporting" cast is enough to cause a cessation of breathing: Sir Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn. There is no single moment in this film for me. It starts and I am mesmerized until the end.

Who's the better Lecter? Sir Anthony or Bryan Cox? The debate continues... but IMHO Petersen just flogs Norton.