Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sick Product of a Sick System

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

In France ,every Moliere lover remembers the sixties MTV version featuring Michel Piccoli's memorable performance .The "modern" ending which broke with Molière's "hullabaloo" did not satisfy everybody though.Jacques Weber's ending is even more disturbing: Don Juan's screams turn into a whisper ;ditto for Sganarelle's last monologue ("Mes Gages!Mes Gages" ) : Michel Boujenah is begging near a church and he too murmurs .Don Juan 1998 has a very low rating which is,IMHO,totally irrelevant.Unlike most of Molière's best plays,this one was perfectly suited to a cinematographic treatment since the action takes place by the sea,in a forest ...Weber's screenplay follows the play with some differences: Don Juan and Sganarelle are accompanied by a servant (?)whose role is completely pointless;the scene when Don Juan asks a poor man to swear if he wants a coin is not included. Don Juan and Sganarelle travel across a desolate Spain, in a world in ruin but which has forgotten it's in ruin.Don Juan's privileged vice,hypocrisy,makes him a rebel in a society where the higher clergy and the nobles rule ,thus not a totally negative character.An atheist whose biggest belief is that two and two is four.The statue of the Commendatore (reduced to a large head ,plus a big hand in the final scene) on a boat at night displays Fellini's influence,particularly (what a coincidence!) "Fellini-Casanova" An user wrote that Emmanuelle Béart was wasted: the part of Elvira consists of two or three scenes anyway.Béart is beautiful but I found her diction unsatisfying :she speaks too quickly,swallowing her words.

Admirers of Molière will love this movie. Those interested in a young, virile seducer with little substance should instead see Heath Ledger in 'Casanova.' Director Jacques Weber's decision to cast actor Jacques Weber as the great seducer is a bit unsettling, but having a leading man with a soft belly and gray hair was a problem quite familiar to M. Molière. The story, as Molière tells it, is not at all about sex, and only superficially about seduction. The subject is hypocrisy, as explained by Don Juan in a speech that starts "Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice..." which begins the last act.Up to that point, the dramatic tension has been focused on the question of whether Don Juan is capable of the self reform to which he is repeatedly urged by his spurned lover Doña Elvira and by his virtuous but pliable servant Sganarelle. By the time Don Juan has finished his lengthy depiction of the advantages of hypocrisy, it is clear that he has not the slightest intention of amending his life in any way. There is nothing left for him but to keep his appointment with the fatal statue. At this point, if you have been in sympathy with the story Molière/Weber have been telling, you may feel as I did, that M. Weber is much better equipped to portray the flinty perversity of a life long lived with utter disdain for the consequences of his actions than a younger actor could have been (though I suspect Robert Downey, Jr, might be up to it).

This was a terribly uninteresting film. In fact, I had to struggle with myself not to just turn it off. The story wasn't particularly compelling, the acting was only so-so and the choice of casting was strange, to say the least. At first, I was shocked to see that the part of Don Juan was played by a fat old guy with a bad hairdo. Later, I realized that was probably the type of dissipated character they wanted for the film. However, this confused me still for two reasons. First, women in the film still found him attractive (yuck) AND Don Juan's father, played by Michael Lonsdale, looked almost the same age as Don Juan. It just didn't make sense.In addition, the movie sported some excellent actresses that had little, if any, chance to show off their talents. Emmanuelle Béart is a tremendous actress, but here she is just seen in bits and pieces. Penelope Cruz also appears in the film--very briefly. With both women you assume they will be integral parts of the film, but they are wasted. Instead, Don Juan mostly whines to his manservant and talks to a giant busts of a man he killed. Wow--some excitement.

This remaking of so many told story of Don Juan is the worst Don Juan movie ever made. Weber, who also plays the main character of the story, all through the movie demonstrates himself so great, so lovely, and so ...! But there is nothing about love or anything else in it. Great spoil of such a beauty as Emmanuelle Beart!