Out of Africa

When this movie came out it was the best reviewed film of the year and won the oscar for best picture. Now Rotten Tomatoes has it rated as rotten. Are you kidding me? No faith in that crap site at all.

I have to admit I didn’t fully appreciate this movie until I was out of my twenties. It is beautifully made and I love the story. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more visually beautiful film or a story and actors that I cared so much for. Everyone is perfect in this movie. If you’ve ever been in love, or heartbroken this movie will get to you.

Out of Africa is a genuine classic of its genre. Not only is it a true story, but it clearly outclasses all other western-made African adventure films. Streep is utterly brilliant. I must admit that I hated the idea of the Americanization of Finch-Hatton, as the real person should have been represented as he truly was. This being said, Redford also did a spectacular job. This movie means a great deal to me, as much of it was filmed where I was living at the time. The stand-in for Karen's house was actually the home of one of my students. (The actual home – now a museum – was then part of a nursing school and unavailable.) The part that haunts me so deeply is the quote from Karen's writings as spoken by Merly Streep – I know a song of Africa...but does Africa know a song of me. As with Karen, the place is so deeply ingrained in me that even now, some thirty years since I left, Africa – that that patch of land now known as Karengata – is part of my soul, the love of my live that I foolishly turned away. Out of Africa conveys this quite deeply. It is almost magical.

SLOW, SLOWER, SLOWEST

The music and cinematography, combined with the real chemistry of 2 great actors in their prime, makes this a real classic of the 80’s. Deserving of all those Oscars.

… a movie effused with a classical music and vivid staccato cinematic underpinning … it casts a broad swath to craven Meryl masses like me with a side order for Redford's Everyman Ambrosia …

This film earned all of the numerous awards and accolades it received! The acting is wonderful, as is the photography and the scenery. Having just returned from a 2 week safari in Africa where we visited many of the areas in the movie (and stayed in the Mt. Kenya Safari Club, which clearly was used in the movie) we can attest to it’s having been filmed ‘on location’. But perhaps even more than the acting and the photography is the fact that the story is simply marvelous! Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) was certainly a marvelous story teller….and apparently lived a life most worthy of high story telling!

What's up with rotten tomatoes? They deserve a few for giving this movie such a low rating. Streep is radiant as a headstrong woman struggling to create a new life in a new country; Redford is perfectly cast; the cinematography is sweeping and panoramic; and some of the scenes are classic.

This movie has it all, great action, twists, & turns you truly don't expect! Worth ever penny to buy it.

I have literally never written a review of anything before but when I saw the rotten tomatoes score for Out of Africa I audibly gasped. This is hands down one of the best movies. I am a huge movie nerd and love it all: the good, the bad and the ugly; but Out of Africa is on another level. The story is fascinating (based on a real woman), the cinematography is beyond breathtaking, the acting is as good as it gets and even the music makes me get choked up when I hear it, even out of context. This is a movie that I have watched over and over again and I experience it as though it was the first time each time. Words can not express how truly exceptional this movie is and how much I cry like a baby every time I watch it, and I never cry. Rotten Tomatoes, you are on notice. I said Good Day Sir.