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The Legend of Suriyothai (2003)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* E! Online "...this is some hugely entertaining history that doesn't feel like homework." more... B+ filmcritic.com Jules Brenner "...The Legend of Suriyothai attempts to cover so much...that the dramatic effect becomes too diffuse to be engaging." more... C- Hollywood Reporter Richard James Havis "Although gorgeous to look at, The Legend of Suriyothai is flat and unengaging." more... C+ Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "With DeMille-like ambition, a Thai epic relies on pageantry to tell a rich historical tale that's rife with royal intrigue." more... B+ New York Post "Moderately involving epic." more... C   New York Times A.O. Scott "...the director, Chatri Chalerm Yukol, a Thai prince, has an old-fashioned, almost classical sense of scale and pageantry." more... B- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...the movie offers a pageant of human behavior at its most hungry and scheming." more... B+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...a visually enthralling, viscerally rousing, politically fascinating epic of the old school.." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)