My Cousin Rachel

2017 "Did she or didn't she?"
My Cousin Rachel
6| 1h46m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 09 June 2017 Released
Producted By: Fox Searchlight Pictures
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A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

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Mihai Toma After his guardian sends a couple of letters seeking quick help from Philip, the latter finds that Ambrose has died from a head tumor. Being profoundly affected by the tragic event of his most beloved, Philip is determined to confront the widow who's all to blame, in his mind at least. Unbeknownst to him though, fate will take a different course when the two finally meet.It's a story which presents a young and naive Philip who becomes obsessed to revenge the death of his guardian, but ends up in the opposite direction. I was truly surprised and a bit disappointed by how his character went from such hatred which we're presented into the first couple of scenes of the movie to something than can only be described as a radical change in attitude, with little justification. All his revenge and confrontation plans are simply thrown out the window, with no drama or suspense regarding this aspect. Speaking of the characters, the movie insists on the two main ones around which the plot unfolds, but has a little tendency of under-developing others, ultimately cutting from the possible explanations which might shed some light on the mysterious Rachel character. The plot is slow but not boring. It presents what it has to present but it does so in a matter which isn't quite able to keep up a good pace. There are about two key moments which twist the otherwise linear story and that's about it.As far as I'm concerned, this movie can be split into two parts, one good and one bad. The good part is that it generates, in its own way, a mystery which isn't answered even after the end of the movie. It simply leaves you guessing regarding what could have happened, without a true explanation from its part. You can also see this as a bad thing, as the movie could have done a bit more to improve upon this aspect, especially in terms of character development. On the other hand, the bad part is that it manages to do so mostly because of Philip's character, who simply put, doesn't know what is on his mind. His heart seems to have conquered his brain and from there on, everything goes towards consolidating the mystery part.Overall, I was left with mixed feelings about this one. It has a premise which I liked and a good start, but due to certain aspects, it turned into a linear action which does little to produce the much needed drama, suspense, thrill of attachment to characters. You want to find out how it ends, but that also doesn't do much to improve what was before. It remains on a level of mediocrity right after the first twist and it stays there until the end. It could have been a lot better if you ask me, while the finale certainly could have done much more to clarify some things, rather than leaving the audience to decide for itself.
Prismark10 My Cousin Rachel benefits from wonderful photography, costumes and art direction but is a listless bland adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier book.Rachel Weisz plays the captivating widow Rachel who pits her wits against Philip Ashley (Sam Claflin) not yet showing any maturity or even intelligence. Philip was going to task Rachel for her role on the death of his cousin and guardian Ambrose in Italy.When Philip meets Rachel he is instantly enchanted, the relationship becomes lusty but then doubts creep in. Does she have an Italian lover? Is she trying to poison him? Philip plans to hand over the fortune he has got from Ambrose on to Rachel with no thought as to how he is going to make his way through nineteenth century England without a pot to urinate in.Philip is too weak a character who easily becomes jealous and then wants to control Rachel. The ending is possibly contradictory and leaves more questions hanging. What else could explain Philip's illness if he has not been poisoned?Weisz gives an intriguing performance but Claflin is not able to match her.
mayree-79278 I haven't read the book, but from the little I've been told about it, I think it would be a pretty interesting book, which I'll have to read for myself and forget this boring attempt of an adaptation. The movie was slow and was filled with too many dull and boring conversations. I really commend anyone who had their eyes open throughout the entire movie. I gave this 2, in honour of the potentials this film had.
marieltrokan A deception that's wrong to be loyal to itself is a sincerity that's right to be loyal to itself.A sincerity that's right to be self-loyal is an honesty that's wrong to be loyal.An honesty that's wrong to be loyal is a power that's wrong to be loyal.A power that's wrong to be loyal is a power that's right to be deceptiveA power that's right to lie is a power that doesn't lieA power that doesn't lie is a power that's trueA power that's true is a power that's powerA power that's power is the identification of power after power. The identity of power after power is the non-identity of weakness before weakness - the secret of deception before deceptionThe secret of deception is the secret of ill-intent. The secret of ill-intent is an evil plan that's not known.An evil plan that's not known before an evil plan is a good plan that's known after a good plan.A good plan is an insincere plan. An insincere plan is a sincere lack of plan - a sincere disorganisation A sincere disorganisation that's known after a sincere disorganisation is a sincere chaos that's exposed after a sincere chaosA sincere chaos is a pure chaos. A pure chaos is a chaos that's not created - a free chaosA free chaos is the chaos of freedom.The chaos of freedom is the elegance of oppressionThe elegance of oppression is the illusion of oppressionInnocent oppression that's exposed after innocent oppression is innocent violence that's exposed after innocent violenceInnocent violence is the danger of innocenceBeing exposed after is exposed beforeThe danger of innocence before exposed danger of innocence is the danger of innocence before known danger of innocenceBefore known is not beforeDanger of innocence after danger of innocenceDanger of innocence is illusion of innocenceIllusion of innocence after illusion of innocenceInnocence of illusion after innocence of illusionInnocence of innocence after innocence of innocenceInnocence is freedomFreedom of freedom is life of freedomLife of freedom after life of freedomAfter life of freedom is life of oppressionLife of freedom life of oppressionFree life oppressive lifeA free reality is an oppressed realityAn oppressed reality is an oppressed realityAn oppressed reality is the illusion of oppressionThe illusion of oppression is an oppressed realityAn abusive illusion is not an oppressionAn abusive illusion is a freedomA privilege is a bad disappointmentA privilege is a disappointed disappointmentA privilege is when a disappointment is disappointedA privilege is when an impossibility is impossibleA privilege is to experience the impossibility of an impossibilityThe Roger Michell adaptation, My Cousin Rachel, is about something being made impossible because it's been experienced