Save your money for something good and enjoyable

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The first must-see film of the year.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

If you love the Gaston Leroux novel or The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical don't watch this!This movie failed on every level! ~It tried to be scary and it FAILED ~It tried to be romantic and it FAILED ~It tried to be sad and it Failed (I Take that back the movie was pretty pathetic.)If this movie was called anything else besides The Phantom of The Opera I wouldn't be so mad. I've seen other Phantom movies that are totally different yet still great to watch! (Phantom of The Paradise and Phantom of The Mall)This one doesn't even follow closely to the Phantom story about: a young man is disfigured and hides himself from society yet falls in love with a beautiful movie. This movie can't even get that right!The gore was okay(unnecessary at times) and so were the production designs but other than that this movie was a mess!Even the ending was stupid too. It took the Phantom 7 shots and 2 stabbings before he could die?! WHAT?Plus this movie has unlikable characters, pointless scenes, confusing scenes etc.I'm sorry Dario but this is probably the worst Phantom movie I will EVER see. Want true advice from a complete stranger who cares about you?DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE!!

Having already seen 'Phantom' in several of its incarnations ... the 1925 silent film with Lon Chaney, the 2004 musical film with Gerard Butler, and the 2011 25th Anniversary stage version at the Royal Albert Hall ... I was in the mood to see this quite different version, on Netflix streaming movies. This version has a number of giant differences, while still following the basic story, of a musical genius who lives in the bowels of the opera house in Paris, and who inspires young Christine to become a fine opera singer. First, this Phantom is not disfigured, instead is mentally distressed from having been rescued by rats as a baby floating in the river underground, then raised by rats. Thus his response when he was called a Phantom, "I am not a Phantom, I am a rat."Julian Sands, with very long hair is The Rat (Phantom). Pretty Asia Argento is Christine Daaé, Andrea Di Stefano is Raoul, and Nadia Rinaldi is Carlotta Altieri . But this is not a musical, in that singing is infrequent, and only to further the plot, i.e. a rehearsal or a performance. The Phantom and Raoul never sing. It is really mostly a horror movie. Did I enjoy it? Yes, I did. Does it deserve a high rating? No, it doesn't. But it accomplishes what it sets out to do and, knowing the basic 'Phantom' story,it is fun to see how they changed it with a quite different Phantom role.It was not filmed in English but it is presented in English on Netflix. The dubbing is really done well, I had to look really hard at lip movements to see any irregularities, it looks for the most part that the actors were speaking English.Much of the filming was done in the Pertosa Caves outside Naples, Italy. It makes the underground scenes very attractive.

If you think that you will see the master of giallo's delivering another gem than you are wrong. dario tried to make a twist on a classic story but it failed. Even the score from Ennio Morricone couldn't save this flick. Here and there Dario was able to put some nasty shots in it and a few nudity scene's but it isn't done to change the most important thing in the story, the phantom is not a disfigured individual, and he was raised by rats. By doing so the mystery and the cruel shot from the Lon Chaney version is missing. The gratuitous nudity didn't add anything towards the flick. It's just like you are suddenly in another flick. Of course Dario's daughter Asia is in it as Christine Daaé and you can guess it, she has to go nude. The phantom was played by Julian Sands and he was believable but the effects used to for example the rat-catcher was laughable and looked like Blackadder (British comedy). When he for example is moving with a rat destroyer it really looked stupid and teared this flick further down.If you want to see how a classic is destroyed or how gore can be added than this is one for you but I rather would classify it under another failure from Dario.Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Well I saw this movie because I enjoyed watching the "the phantom of the opera" (2004) and it was a magnificent, epic and classic which I would always remember with its beauty shown in the same way that it should have been and its charm portrayed in the same way it had to be.But I am highly disappointed with this release of phantom of the opera, it was more like a comedy film rather than being some remake or something horror. It was neither the horror nor the enchanting one. It was more like a taunt to the phantom of the opera.When it all started, the mice dragging the child and story beginning, I was quite at ease, as this was much normal to me. Then they showed the phantom appearing and frightening the people, with his mastery. Then he takes Kristen with him, and does the sex which in my view was absurd, why this had to be shown, I mean involving porn in a classic film, for god sake this is not a porn film and neither this is a horror film at all. The director ruined the film so beautifully that I must clap for this amazing and wonderful time-wasting film.In this edition, the phantom was shown to be just a horror introduction as well as amateur singer for him and he has no talent of music to teach to Kristen.At other moments, you will also find the Kristen has got no such talent, she is singing and watching here there so aimlessly instead of showing herself lost in the enchanting beauty of world of music with its legacy. This actress "asia argento" is highly misfit for this role, she is more a modern type of lady as she did acting in her other films. If I compare Kristen of 1994 version with the Kristen of 2004 version, I would give 2/10 to Asia Argento and 9/10 to Emmy Rosum, the Kristen in 2004 version.Later I found the phantom can't even die with bullets, he was fired so many times but he was busy rescuing the girl, fighting with guards and even watching her going. This is the height of ruining the classic with modernism. This movie must have been named "The Jason of the opera" or perhaps "the phantom prophecies" or best if named as "a hell night with phantom in the opera street" I am sure someone who likes classic and has some classic sense, would agree with me that this director did his best effort in ruining the beauty of the film.Though the "the phantom of the opera" 2004 version is the best classical version of this. I loved it too much.