"After three years, Anthony? Minghella is back perfectly with a dark thriller movie, which brings together the last Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth? Paltrow, Australian actor Kate? Blanchett, and British actor Jude? Lowe, Jack? Davenport, and a completely rookie actor Sean? Don's film will send Trixia? Highsmith's novel successfully showcased. —The New York Times

"Wonderful movie, Anthony? Once again, Minghella shows his eclectic directing style. - Los Angeles Times

"Anyone who questioned the film before that could shut up, Anthony? Minghella fought back most forcefully with his work. - "Variety"

The day after the premiere, that is, on Christmas Day, various media began to report heavily on "The Genius Ripley", which was screened on Christmas Eve, and gave it unanimous praise. The Hollywood Reporter claims to be a thriller that isn't fast-paced but as intriguing as Hitchcock's suspense films, while The Washington Post argues that The Talented Ripley not only has a great thing to do, but also top-notch acting and great cinematography and screenwriting, but is also acutely aware of how money, lust, and sex can distort human nature.

Of course, there were some media outlets who were critical, and Empire magazine thought that the film was as slow as "The English Patient" and that it would drive away many viewers, but even so, they admitted that it was a story worth watching, with a Hitchcockian darkness and beautiful graphics like a travel movie.

Overall, "The Genius Ripley" received a 78-point positive rating from the media, and an 85% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If you feel that Rotten Tomatoes has only been established for more than a year and is not authoritative enough, then IMDB 7. A score of 6 is enough to say something, and although it will certainly decrease over time, it will not be much lower.

As for the critics, there are two film reviews that stand out, one of which is the famous Roger? Written by Ebert.

"In the film version of "The Genius Ripley", director Anthony? Minghella faithfully restored Patricia? Highsmith's novel, which is a story that takes place in the 50s, a young man who lives in a basement in New York and makes a living as a waiter and playing the piano, Tom? Ripley, who is good at imitating other people's accents and handwriting, is mistaken for his son's classmate at Princeton University by the shipping tycoon Greenleaf, so he entrusts him to Italy to bring his prodigal son home.

Ripley took the job and traveled to Italy, where he met Dick? Greenleaf and his girlfriend Maggie? Sherwood, who was soon attracted to Dick's extravagant life, became obsessed with all that he had. It should be noted here that Ripley is not gay, the original novel is bisexual, and Minghella clearly has no intention of revising it.

Returning to the plot, Ripley is obsessed with everything about Dick, his life, his status, and his flesh, but Dick and his friends treat Ripley as a clown, and he may be aware of Ripley's affection, but he doesn't take it to heart. During an argument, Ripley accidentally killed Dick and lived as Dick ever since. A lie needs more lies to make up for it, so he has to continue to deceive, continue to murder, and his humanity is distorted because of it, although he finally blinds almost everyone, but he completely falls into the abyss because of a heavy sense of guilt.

Minghella uses a lot of detail to portray the characters' personalities, and the typical scene is the scene where Ripley and Dick are in the bathroom, and the subtle feeling between the two is revealed with just a simple touch of reaching out to the water. Another example is Dick's shoes, which become the materialization of Ripley's intention to replace him, and the ring that he and Maggie Aiqing testify, as well as Ripley's criminal evidence, or the Italian opera full of metaphors, etc.

Minghella is firmly in control of the camera, and all the locations are in his proper style, as early as in "The English Patient", we have already seen the magnificent scenery of the Sahara Desert in the camera, and in "The Genius Ripley" we can still see the sunny beaches of the waves, the Piazza di Spain in Rome, the St. Mark's Church in Venice, and so on. In particular, the scene where Ripley drives Maggie through the streets of Rome in an electric car, where Minghella uses a deep lens to elongate the shot, without deliberately softening, perfectly showing the style of Rome in the fifties.

For the most part, the film is full of light and color, and has a vibrant, bright visual effect, it doesn't affect the dark theme. On the contrary, such colors have a strong contrast effect with Ripley's actions, further showing how money, vanity, and luxury can make a young man fall into the abyss step by step.

However, "The Genius Ripley" is not flawless, like Minghella's previous work, "The Genius Ripley" also has the problem of too slow pace, if the plot is more compact, Ripley's transformation is portrayed more, rather than too restrained, so that his transformation is more convincing, I believe it can make the movie more attractive to ordinary people.

The point here is that several actors have performed well, whether it is Gwyneth? Paltrow or Kate? Blanchett, or Jude? Lowe, Philip? Seymour? Hoffman, Jack? Davenport, they all haode did their job. Dick's arrogance, Freddy's contempt, Peter's innocence, Maggie's grief, and Meredith's blinded complex emotions are all shaped richly and believably by them.

But what surprised me the most was Sean as the male lead? Don, frankly, was not optimistic about Minghella's move when I first learned that a newcomer who had just started as an actor was the lead actor. As we all know, a good actor needs experience and accumulation, and many things cannot be shown in front of the camera without a long period of accumulation, but Sean's excellent performance reversed my opinion. It's hard to believe that the young man only came to Hollywood last September, and it's hard to believe that he had only played a supporting role in "Friends" before that, but he did show Ripley what he should be.

The most impressive part is the part where Maggie leaves Venice, and her intuition tells her that Dick is dead and the murderer is Ripley, but no one supports her, and everyone is blinded. Grief-stricken, Maggie can only wave her gloves and beat Ripley in vain, until old Greenleaf pulls her away, and Minghella gives Sean a close-up here, although only for a few seconds, Sean still covers a third of his face with his hand, but the unease, horror and joy shown between his eyebrows are so impressive that people even think that he is Ripley.

I have to praise Minghella, it is precisely because of his unique vision and bold style that we see a perfect, complex human Tom? Ripley, just let us see a wonderful movie, and I give this work 4 stars. ”

Albert's rating has always been 1 to 4 stars, he has a wide range of views, and there is no distinction between commercial films and art films in his eyes, so he is often seen giving 3 to 4 stars to a certain commercial film, and 2 stars to a certain art film that everyone thinks is okay, only if the movie is very, very bad or morally disgusting, he will not give 0 stars, so getting 4 stars is already a high evaluation for "The Genius Ripley".

And replaced by another film critic, Melanie? Haas, that's different again, this female film critic never scores, and she doesn't like to interpret movies as a whole like Albert, she is better at analyzing characters, and she likes it very much, and she likes it very much, and "The Genius Ripley" belongs to the former category.

"This is a tight, gripping, fascinating, elegant and wonderful psychological thriller, intertwined with arrogance and lies, infinitely magnifying the dark side of human nature into a picture of desperate depravity.

Anthony? Minghella is very good at selecting actors, and each actor is very suitable for the role. Luo completely reveals the frivolity and arrogance of the rich child, he is like becoming one with Dick, both his demeanor and demeanor are showing the audience that he is the one who went to Italy to play when his mother was seriously ill, and one second he was playing with his friend, and the next second he was saying behind his back that this friend was stupid, and there was nothing but rich Dick? Greenleaf.

And Philip, who plays Dick's friend Freddy? Seymour? Hoffman, despite only playing for a dozen minutes in total, was unabashedly and appropriately dismissive of Ripley, but the audience hated it. It was a remarkable performance, even better than Hoffman's previous performances in "Boogie Night", and easily stood out among several actors.

Other than that, Gwyneth? Paltrow, Kate? Blanchett and Jack? Davenport did his job well, but unfortunately, Blanchett should have performed better, but he couldn't do it because of the lack of scenes.

And then I will Sean? Don's Tom? Ripley put it to Zuihou, and I made no secret of my disdain for him. I'm sure most people will think Minghella is crazy after learning that he used a newcomer as the lead actor in the movie, and the truth is, this is called Sean? Don's rookie actor handed in a perfect score.

He skillfully uses small movements and expressions to combine himself with the character, especially when he is mocked and scorned, and the lowered eyelids very clearly convey his unwillingness and helplessness to be marginalized. Without mentioning the echoing beginning and ending and Sean's performance in the murder on the dinghy, in the plot where he tries to murder Maggie but ends up because of Peter's arrival, it is clear how he controls the character and how he hides the hideousness of desire in an angry look.

Very few actors can do this, especially young actors, at least for the entire 90s, I was only in Rivan? A few young actors such as Phoenix have seen such words. I really want Sean? Can Don stay on that so that maybe one day, he can become the next Rivan? Phoenix. ”