Cleopatra

I found the movie Cleopatra to be a little boring.  I would have to say that some of the parts that I enjoyed the most were the scenes where Cleopatra goes to Rome when Caesar calls for her to go to Rome.  I though here entrance was really entertaining but other then that there was not a lot to entertain in the movie.  Another thing that I liked was Cleopatra’s wardrobe, it was magnificent and a lot of the clothes could be altered to be worn today.  Some of the things that I did not like about the film was the, one fighting scene, that was in the whole four hour-long film. Another thing that I did not like was the way that the Octavian was portrayed, I think that there should have been a different actor for the role of Octavian.  I understand that Octavian, or Augustus or Caesar however you want to call him, was a thin man but the actor just looked weak and very twig like, that he ended up looking weak when we all know that at the end he was going to be the one that won.  I wonder if that was one of the main reasons that this actor was chosen to play Octavian, so that the audience members that did not know the story of Cleopatra would believe that Cleopatra and Antony would win at the end? Either way I think that there should have been another actor that looked like a man that could very sneakily take everything from everyone and no one suspect him but at the same time look like if he were to be going to combat that he would at least have a fighting chance in hand to hand combat.  Overall if I had to rate the move from 1-10 and ten was the highest score I would give this movie a four because the female characters wardrobe was fantastic and Cleopatra’s grand entrance to Rome scene was really entertaining as well as her death but other then that the whole movie was really dull.