Movie Information
Overall Rank: 5815
Average Rating: 2.7/4
# of Ratings: 24
Theatrical Release Date: 02/23/1951
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 11/11/2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie
Quick Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
travincal - wrote on 08/24/2012
Yes, it's 1951, and 61 years passed over it, but it's still watchable, and with a powerfull message at the end it deserves more. Recomand.
Rating of
1/4
Yojimbo - wrote on 07/12/2012
Despite the swords and sandals, the core of this film is a stodgy and stiff-backed romantic melodrama combined with a preachy christian message. Peter Ustinov's Nero is fun, portraying him as an affable maniac but Robert Taylor is acting like he's reading off cue cards and as a whole, it's an overlong and crushing bore.
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
Quo Vadis
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 03/01/2013
Quo Vadis tells the story of early Christians in Rome, and their early persuction by Nero. This is a rather misguided epic from the start. Robert Taylor as a Roman Centurion who gains a conscious is a boring lead hardly conveying any character at all. He is ineffetive in his attempts to lead the film, and his performance really is a testament to the strength of Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur.
The story really prods along due to lacking a compelling lead. The leading Romance is bland and uninspired with Kerr and Taylor lacking any chemistry. As just the story of the central struggle of the Centurion it fall right upon its head due to Taylor failing to do anything with his role. This might have succeeded in some way with a stronger leading man, but Taylor seems lost.
As a depiction of …
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