Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

darthelton This is a highly enjoyable and lighthearted, yet somewhat moving film about two best friends and comrades who hoodwink an entire middle eastern village into thinking that one of them (Sean Connery) is a god. Well, as you can imagine, it doesn't go too well. This has now become one of my favorite Michael Caine movies.Not much more can be said about it unless you want to go into the deeper meaning of how god constructed man in his image, yet man cannot handle the responsibilities of a god, and how temptation and greed are a double edged sword. Lots of great lines, lots of memorable moments, well worth a watch. Just remember that THIS is Sean Connery's favorite role.

Lee Eisenberg Showing that he hadn't lost his flair as a director, John Huston adapted Rudyard Kipling's novel "The Man Who Would Be King" to the big screen. I've never read the novel, but the movie is something to behold. Sean Connery and Michael Caine play a pair of men stationed in British India who decide to set up their own fiefdom in the remote Kafiristan. The movie isn't just an adventure story. It also shows the protagonists' arrogance ("You'll learn how to fight like civilized people!"). No surprise that things don't go quite as the men planned.It's more than a little ironic that the regions on which the movie focuses - the Afghanistan-Pakistan region - are back in the news in the 21st century. The more that things change, the more they stay the same. The protagonists should've learned a lesson from Alexander the Great's experiences in the region, as should every empire that's gone into Afghanistan.But anyway, the movie is more proof of what a great director Huston was, and what great actors Connery and Caine are (as well as Christopher Plummer, who plays Kipling). Really good one.

Oeuvre_Klika What a peculiar story! It's almost a philosophical tale, and certainly not what I expected when I chose to watch this movie (I haven't read the original work). The Caine/Connery duo works terrifically well and is in my opinion the main attraction to "The man who would be king". Although the story was thrilling enough for me never to be bored, I thought that the direction lacked rhythm, especially in the first two thirds of the movie. In fact, I thought that this movie suffered from the same problem as some other literary adaptations that give the impression that they rest too much on their source material and struggle to find their own unity.I've always enjoyed "exotic" adventure stories, written at a time where a big part of the world could still be a mystery, even if it means putting up with the condescending attitude of the westerners of the time. Of course, today, the Victorian Englishmen are hardly less exotic to us than their oriental contemporaries. I don't know what the tone of Kipling's short story was, but the movie, at least, seemed to me to be watching the protagonists with a distance appropriate for our time, without, however, cutting us completely from any identification or empathy (it would have lost much of its impact otherwise). In a few words, I had a lot of fun watching this movie, but I didn't find it memorable. The actors' performances, on the other hand, are (the actor playing Billy Fish was excellent, too!) and they're well worth the watch.

FilmBuff1994 The Man Who Would Be King is a great movie with a very well developed storyline and a terrific cast. It's a very entertaining adventure film that was made in a time when these type of films were rare, it was a risky at the time and required serious effort from the film makers, and it all shows here, it looks beautiful, the cinematography is stunning even for today's standards and it was clearly a very expensive production. The biggest flaw is that it's predictable, once the two main characters make it to India, everything from their can be told twenty minutes in advance, we knew what would end up happening to each character, there isn't any unexpected twist that takes the audience away, and it's predictability is the reason why I'm giving this an eight instead of a nine that it easily could have received. The cast is terrific, particularly Sean Connery and Michael Caine, of course, the chemistry between them is spectacular, they seemed very comfortable performing together and it's a pleasant experience to see these two movie icons in the same film. A swashbuckling adventure with stunning scenery and great acting, the Man Who Would Be King is worth the watch for anyone looking for a good adventure film. Two British soldiers in colonial India venture to uncharted realms in search of wealth and power. Best Performance: Michael Caine Worst Performance: Albert Moses