Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

ironhorse_iv For over 50 years, seven- time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti ruled as the most fear politician in Italy. He was accused of masterminding a Mafia/Neo Fascist/ Vatican conspiracy to kill leaders in the Italian's government which includes party members, judges, and government journalists. Based on those true events, the movie follows that guideline in telling the life of the man known to the public as "the black pope', 'Beelzebub' and "Il Divo' brilliant play by Toni Servillo and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Toni's Andreotti look like the Six Flag Guy if only he was a gangster. His rigid gestures and the cruel language of his voice and use of his word gives you reason why they call him the 'Prince of Darkness' and 'Hunchback'. Politics is everything to him, and politics means the pursuit of power. He is willing to get it in any cost. The movie is violence—but respectable with it. It's hard to say, if Giulio Andreotti did all those stuff, that he was accused of, but it's seems more truth than fiction. Just the fact that he repeated convictions for Mafia ties in the past decade, remains the title of "senator for life" shows how much power this man had. As of this writing, the man behind of the movie, is still alive, and not in jail. It's tells you a lot about politics in Italy. Thus it felt like a politically charged movie. The film fails to live up to the subtitle 'The extraordinary life of Giulio Andreotti". It's mostly focus on his so-call crimes, and accused acts with the Mafia, barely about the life of the man at all. The movie shows how he been able to get close to getting catch, but end up getting away. The movie pace is slow at times, and feels kinda wordy and philosophy. The cinematography is amazing; angle shots of some scenes may ask you, how on earth did they film it in that angle. Great use of props and locations, the use of slow movements frames and lights in the scenes is awesome! The text describing the names and job of the characters listed is a bit too small to see, would advices watching the movie with sub-titles. The background music is catchy. Mixed with the classic music, drumming, Italian pop and modern electronic music, the use of playing and stopping the music mid-through it, when something dramatic happens, and then picks up after it, is chilling. The use of background sounds like whispers, trains, tape rewinder, are well-used to depiction an inside look of the mind of the man. There seems to be a Godfather feel to the movie, to the point, that the fictional character Don Licio Lucchesi from the movie The Godfather Part III, a high-ranking Italian politician with close ties to the Mafia, was modeled on Andreotti's ties with the Mafia. Those who doesn't know anything about Italian history, will figure out in the first 5 minutes opening of the movie Il Divo that will definitive summary of Italian political history where sadly corruption and murder is the key to power. Watch the cold, detached, and analytical movie throughout, and ask yourself when finish. How does a man like this get away with murder? Not all movies, the good guys win and the bad guys pay the price for their crimes.

tomgillespie2002 Il Divo charts the vast and eventful reign that former Italian prime- minister Giulio Andreotti had over Italy. He served as prime minister a number of times between 1976 and 1992, and also held positions of Defence Minister and Foreign Minister. During this time he was widely believed to have strong links to the Mafia, and was placed on trial in the late 1990's for his involvement in the murder of a journalist who was suggested to have held documents that strongly implicated Andreotti in criminal activities. The film jumps back and forth in time, and shows Andreotti's enigmatic presence of almost divine levels, and his guilt over his refusal to negotiate in the kidnapping and eventual murder of fellow Christian Democrat Aldo Moro.This is no ordinary biography. It is an unconventional, highly stylised comedy-drama that is infuriating, exciting, informative and exhausting. Director Paolo Sorrentino throws so many facts, figures and names at you in rapid fashion that it all becomes a blur, it is near impossible to keep up, especially if your knowledge of Italian politics around this time is slim (which was the case for me). But it eventually becomes clear that all this information is irrelevant. It's simply a way to show just how involved Andreotti was virtually everything that happened. He was so influential, so powerful that nothing escaped him. And nothing could touch him.Toni Servillo's simply brilliant performance conveys everything you need to know about Andreotti. He is not physically intimidating, but instead he is hunched, softly-spoken and extremely strange-looking. But Andreotti does not need to move for anyone. His extreme intelligence and near-supernatural ability to get out of situations by doing next to nothing only increases his divine status. We see the best and worst of Andreotti, but Sorrentino is not trying to force an opinion of him out of us, but instead he has directed an outrageous film about an outrageous man. 'Il Divo', literally translated, means 'the star', but suggests 'the divine one', and was the nickname given to Julius Caesar.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

JoshuaDysart I've heard several American viewers complain that this film is all style over substance. I couldn't disagree more.I think that if a viewer is familiar with Italian Political History then this film comes off as absolutely breathtaking, and not just for its amazing filmic style. For one, the performances and interpretations of these real characters are spot on and for another the intelligence and courage to which the script approaches the ethical implications of Il Divo's actions, the breadth of moral exploration, how he defends himself to himself, to others and, often, directly to the viewer, is a welcomed shock and dose of complexity to the often polemic and overly-reductive discourse in Italian politics (not much different than here in the States in that regard). Lastly, for Italians, these events resonate incredibly and speak very much to the current power base in Italy. I truly feel that a lot of Americans are watching this film with cultural blinders on.I won't lie, it is definitely designed for people that already have a strong grasp of the history. It doesn't weigh itself down with long explanations and exposition (except in text at the beginning and end of the film) so if you're coming to this to learn every sordid detail about its subject, or for a plot, even, then you might not find much reward in it. But as an exercise in unpacking a very complicated subject with real style, it's amazing!

alexmccourt I want to see this again, to help me decide if it really was as good as I thought it was the first time round. Whod've thought that a film about a seemingly unprepossessing little Italian politician, Giulio Andreotti, could be so damn entertaining.The movie revolves around how extraordinary this man was. However, the mystery - did he or didn't he arrange all those assassinations, was he or wasn't he involved with those nasty Mafia people - was the main driver for the story. A film's plot is always the main enjoyment for me - which is why I detest those smartass reviewers who think it's OK to give the game away - and this one got a big leg up from the true -life storyline. The answer to the mystery is probably given in one seconds-long soundbite somewhere near the end of the film. I say probably because Mr Andreotti spends a fair bit of time in solo self justification and I was never sure if any of his monologues had elements of truth in them.As a piece of film making, this movie is dark, elegant and strange, as befits the subject matter. The acting performances are excellent, particularly Tony Servillo as the said Mr Andreotti. Overall, splendido.