Wow! Such a good movie.

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Blistering performances.

While "Mutiny on the Bounty" certainly is a classic movie, it does have some flaws.Sure, the movie was entertaining, but it just was way too long and the storyline suffered from this. It just felt like they should have been more thorough in the cutting room and trimming it down in size. Such as the intro and intermission segments, it was just several minutes of music. That was unnecessary and just annoying to be honest.The movie was quite nicely filmed and it felt like you were there on the Bounty herself. So that really added a nice touch of realism to the movie. It was so easy to get into the movie and the atmosphere.As for the acting, well there was nothing to complain about here. They had an allround good cast that delivered great performances with their individual roles and characters."Mutiny on the Bounty" is a good high-seas adventure. However, it is hardly the movie that you can watch again and again, at least not without several years passing in between each viewing. I think I watched this as a pre-teen and then watched it again some 30 years later.

Leonard Maltin famously gives this movie a mere two-and-a-half stars (out of four) and says Brando is "all wrong" for the role of Fletcher Christian. Regarding the rating - IMO it's a three-and-a-half star film. Regarding Brando - the idea that he's "all wrong" is a useless comment not worthy of Maltin.What the heck does "all wrong" mean, anyway? "All wrong" seems to suggest that the reviewer (Maltin or one of his team members) knew the real Christian and that Brando isn't like Christian at all. I find it unlikely that Maltin knew the real Christian. No one alive today knew the real Christian. Furthermore, very little is known about the man. Brando in this film creates a fictional Christian (I emphasize "fictional") who seems pretty damn real and convincing to me if viewed as fictional.In any case, this is a Hollywood movie and thus owes limited allegiance to historical fact. The first priority of a Hollywood movie about the past is to entertain people who buy tickets. It's helpful, perhaps, if historical accuracy can be slotted into the affair, but this is not, in my view, a first priority.Perhaps Maltin and his team read a biography of Christian and find Brando radically dissimilar from the portrait of the mutineer presented in the book. I would like to know the name of this book; I rather think that citing a source, in this case, is justified.Is Maltin perhaps saying that Brando is "all wrong" for the role in comparison to Clark Gable's performance 20-plus years earlier? If so, this is truly laughable, for two reasons: (a) Gable's performance is wooden and (b) The world changed from 1939 to 1962; Brando's performance reflects some of this change, as any actor's performance reflects the times he or she lives in.So, yeah, I'm beating up on Maltin a little bit here. I think his review of "Mutiny on the Bounty" lacks foundation and thus is weak. Dislike the movie if you must, Leonard, but give some coherent reasons.Brando is excellent in this movie in my opinion. The entire cast is quite good. The story is bold and dramatic. The score is great and the photography is spectacular.I myself have zero interest in all the problems the production experienced. I am interested in what's on the screen - and what's on the screen is very damn good.

How this pathetic debacle has managed to scrape such a high score Is beyond all comprehension. Was Marlon Brando REALLY an Oscar winner? The pathetic, fat half-wit can't even manage a half-decent English accent! His must rank as the all-time useless attempt at pretending to be English.It's not just Inaccurate - It's weird,totally strange. If you want to enjoy an historically accurate version of these events then watch the 1935 'Mutiny on the Bounty' - with the masterful Charles Laughton; and at least Clarke Gable can manage a convincing English accent. This movie Is a pointless and pathetic disgrace. Americans are absolutely useless at historical reproduction - apart from 'Cowboys and Indians' -perhaps because they've got no history!

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sought to recapture the profits and prestige of "Ben-Hur" (1959) with their "Mutiny on the Bounty" remake. The optimistic studio didn't do anything by halves. It commissioned the construction of a replica of the Bounty, lensed on-location in Tahiti, and cast Marlon Brando in the role created by virile Clark Cable. Trevor Howard co-starred as Captain William Bligh and Richard Harris played one of the seaman. Brando had already proved how undisciplined a director he was on the western "One-Eyed Jacks" where he ran off Stanley Kubrick. Carol Reed of "The Third Man" fame actually started shooting the action, but he left and M-G-M replaced him with Lewis Milestone. Make no mistake; "Mutiny on the Bounty" looks spectacular. The film was staged in some of the actual locations where those historic events occurred. Moreover, the Bounty sailed the high seas for 50 years afterward until Hurricane Sandy sank it in 2012. Robert Surtees' cinematography is like a series of picture postcards. Unfortunately, all this beautiful scenery cannot compensate for tedium. Clocking in at 178 languorous moments, "Mutiny on the Bounty" is sluggish from start to finish. Brando delivers the worst performance of his career. He plays Mr. Christian as a foppish dandy with the most excruciating accent imaginable. No blame for this tragedy can be placed on the shoulders of director Lewis Milestone. Basically, Brando sank the movie because studio executives gave him everything that he wanted. Many writers toiled on this epic but the film lacks the element of drama. The contentious struggle between Christian and Bligh lacks the gusto of the original. Brando's character dies when he tries to save his sextant from the burning hull of the Bounty.