Amadeus DVD > Reviews

Advantages: not a performance out of place, often amusing, consistently entertaining, excellent music(naturally) and an interesting storyline to match!
Disadvantages: Probably not for everyone, but you won't know till you try!

...myself has never heard of Amadeus before I saw it, which amazed me somewhat as it such an excellently performed and fascinating film. Based on the rise and fall of the composer Mozart told through the eyes of an aging and tortured Antonio Salieri(played exceptionally by F. Murray Abraham)it paints Mozart as a(and I quote from the back of the box here) 'a bawdy hellraiser. A screeching, raucous child. And the composer of the greatest music ever written.' ... Read review

Advantages: superb musical score, 8 academy awards, well acted
Disadvantages: None

I loved this film. It is a gripping drama about the life and works of Mozart. If you are a Mozart fan then you will love this film. It is a great celebration of the talented composers music. Set in 1781 it follows the life of the composor from childhood to his death. A memorable soundtrack accompanies the film throughout and the acting quality is superb Released in 1984 this film won eight academy awards including best picture, best actor and ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent transfer from stage to screen
Disadvantages: Those accents

"Amadeus" is about the life and works of Mozart, who seems to be hailed nowadays as the musical Shakespeare, the greatest composer who ever lived. Surprisingly then, Mozart is portrayed as childish, lecherous, and insensitive - but capable of producing the most brilliant music. "I am a vulgar man, but there is nothing vulgar about my music," as he says. Unfortunately, rival composer Salieri is waiting in the wings, envious of Mozart's talent and ... Read review

Advantages: A lot of great moments, great music of course.
Disadvantages: Lacks a dramatic thread and thus feels overlong.

Milos Forman's version of Peter Schaffer's play is beautiful to the eyes and ears but I found somehow lacked a dramatic thread to keep you hooked. It's more about excerpts from the relationship between Salieri, the court composer, and his young and, much to Salieri's annoyance, wonderfully talented student, Mozart and takes us up to his early death and paupers burial. It makes up for this lack of drama through it's performances, most notably from ... Read review