Yetenekli Bay Ripley Reception

Reception
Critical reaction to The Talented Mr Ripley has been mostly positive, with the film earning a rating of 82% on Rotten Tomatoes Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four, calling it "an intelligent thriller" that is "insidious in the way it leads us to identify with Tom Ripley He's a monster, but we want him to get away with it" In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Jude Law's performance: "This is a star-making role for the preternaturally talented English actor Jude Law Beyond being devastatingly good-looking, Mr Law gives Dickie the manic, teasing powers of manipulation that make him ardently courted by every man or woman he knows" Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A-" rating with Lisa Schwarzbaum writing: "Damon is at once an obvious choice for the part and a hard sell to audiences soothed by his amiable boyishness the facade works surprisingly well when Damon holds that gleaming smile just a few seconds too long, his Eagle Scout eyes fixed just a blink more than the calm gaze of any non-murdering young man And in that opacity we see horror"
Charlotte O'Sullivan of Sight and Sound wrote, "A tense, troubling thriller, marred only by problems of pacing (the middle section drags) and some implausible characterisation (Meredith's obsession with Ripley never convinces), it's full of vivid, miserable life" Time named it one of the ten best films of the year and called it a "devious twist on the Patricia Highsmith crime novel" James Berardinelli gave the film two and a half stars out of four, calling it "a solid adaptation" that "will hold a viewer's attention," but criticized "Damon's weak performance" and "a running time that's about 15 minutes too long" Berardinelli compared the film unfavorably with the previous adaptation, Purple Noon, which he gave four stars He wrote, "The remake went back to the source material, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley The result, while arguably truer to the events of Highsmith's book, is vastly inferior To say it suffers by comparison to Purple Noon is an understatement Almost every aspect of Rene Clement's 1960 motion picture is superior to that of Minghella's 1999 version, from the cinematography to the acting to the screenplay Matt Damon might make a credible Tom Ripley, but only for those who never experienced Alain Delon's portrayal"
In his review for The New York Observer, Andrew Sarris wrote, "On balance, The Talented Mr Ripley is worth seeing more for its undeniably delightful journey than its final destination Perhaps wall-to-wall amorality and triumphant evil leave too sour an aftertaste even for the most sophisticated anti-Hollywood palate"[10] In his review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw wrote, "The Talented Mr Ripley begins as an ingenious exposition of the great truth about charming people having something to hide: namely, their utter reliance on others It ends up as a dismayingly unthrilling thriller and bafflingly unconvincing character study"[11] In her review for the Village Voice, Amy Taubin criticized Anthony Minghella as a "would-be art film director who never takes his eye off the box office, doesn't allow himself to become embroiled in such complexity He turns The Talented Mr Ripley into a splashy tourist trap of a movie The effect is rather like reading The National Enquirer in a cafe overlooking the Adriatic"[12]

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