Rotten
Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Four Feathers
Freedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one man must risk everything he loves.
2002 · 2h 12m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Directed by
Shekhar Kapur
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The Four Feathers
Overview
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
Director and cast
- Shekhar Kapur Director
- Heath Ledger as Harry Faversham
- Wes Bentley as Jack Durrance
- Kate Hudson as Ethne Eustace
- Djimon Hounsou as Abou Fatma
- Alex Jennings as Colonel Hamilton
- Michael Sheen as William Trench
- Lucy Gordon as Isabelle
- James Cosmo as Col. Sutch
- Angela Douglas as Aunt Mary
- Daniel Caltagirone as Gustave
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Ledger does a great job in the action sequences and the more tender scenes.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh
It's a pretty compelling yarn, not to mention full of pretty pictures, and yet it could be so much more than that.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten
A movie that lacks the jingoistic bravura of earlier editions ... but hasn't replaced it with meaningful historical revisionism appropriate to our post-colonial age.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Rotten
What's missing, crucially, is the passion required to make this unlikely tale work.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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