The Beach

2000

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller

108
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 21% · 122 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 252549 252.5K

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Plot summary

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.


Uploaded by: OTTO
September 11, 2012 at 08:13 PM

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Top cast

Leonardo DiCaprio as Richard
Virginie Ledoyen as Françoise
Robert Carlyle as Daffy
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750.92 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
R
25.000 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 8
1.55 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
R
25.000 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 66

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MossMan 8 / 10

Why did it get such bad reviews here?

This is one of the few times that I have been badly mislead by the reviews on IMDb! I avoided this film in the past because of this, but thought it would be a good "soft" film to watch on video with with a friend and his wife (she doesn't like difficult films).

What a revelation! I understand that people who have read the book may be disappointed, but as an uneducated viewer this is a fantastic film! Novel situation, novel location (beautiful images, even though the beach was re-modeled), novel plot, novel characters (all of whom are wildly different yet possible to sympathise with - except maybe for Bugs)... this film has everything in it that I find so desperately lacking in the average Hollywood pulp I'm forced to watch with friends.

And I *liked* the fact that the film made a few surprising changes in style... I hate knowing the end of a story at least an hour before it finally grinds its inevitable way there (see any "action" film).

Reviewed by imseeg 5 / 10

Starts out interesting, but half way through it simply implodes as a mediocre, silly plot about teenagers on holiday...

The good: The music is great. The beach scenery is gorgeous and beautifully photographed. Actors are good. What's not to like? Even this story starts out interesting at first, but after 45 minutes things definitely turn sour:

The bad: After 45 minutes into the story, suddenly there are several ridiculous plot turns that are quite laughable and spoil the final part of this movie.

Recommended only for teenagers or anyone else dreaming of a far away paradise island, where the inhabitants do nothing else but partying all night long. Take a chance of watching it if you are a diehard Leonardo di Caprio fan. Other folks might wanna avoid this teenage party flick...

Reviewed by mark.waltz 3 / 10

The sands of the hourglass unfortunately fell out because The Hourglass was broken.

If you're thinking of going someplace exotic or finding a movie to go to someplace exotic, Bangkok and the beach are not your answer. This is an extremely unpleasant film because it is an unpleasant view of the society that none of us fortunately ever have to witness because we avoid it, and it's an ugliness that should not be confused as entertainment. The audience is going to be manipulated by the beauty of the paradise that is seen, but when the twist comes, it's 1 so unpleasant and reprehensible that you wish you would never taken the trip. If there's one thing that this film shows, it's the view of Americans that is not favorable in places like this, not as long as they can't get cash out of you or destroy your soul in the process, and that seems to be what's going to happen to Leonardo DiCaprio here.

For one thing, he's staying and probably one of the most disgusting hostels or hotels or whatever you want to call this place here, a place where people can literally get on a chair and look into your bedroom and harass you to see if you have drugs. That results in the discovery of a suicide in the room next to DiCaprio's, as well as a map to the so-called paradise of a beach. There are so many other movies that show paradise is like this, that you can easily avoid taking this trip which leads to the voyager on the road to ruin. It's also a very manipulative movie, negative in ways that it doesn't show directly on screen, but with motivations that are ugly shallow and dangerous, especially to the target audience got it was made for in 2000.

If I encountered 90% of the people in this movie while on a trip, I would be on the next plane out of there. I couldn't imagine having such an unpleasant vacation, and where DiCaprio is lead can only results in one thing. Yes, this was a big blockbuster at the time, but time is always the judge in movies like this, and seeing it again, I see it for what it is, and it is not enjoyable in any way. Shallow disgusting characters, horrible writing, a direction that's all over the place, and so many unbelievable ridiculous situations makes this one of the most disturbing films of modern times, a film with such disgusting messages that is a catastrophe to think that this ever got the light of day from a major Hollywood studio.

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