Synopsis
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
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Cast
- Heath LedgerHarry Faversham
- Wes BentleyJack Durrance
- Kate HudsonEthne Eustace
- Djimon HounsouAbou Fatma
- Alex JenningsColonel Hamilton
- Michael SheenWilliam Trench
- Lucy GordonIsabelle
- James CosmoCol. Sutch
- Angela DouglasAunt Mary
- Daniel CaltagironeGustave
Recommendations
- 88
New York Post
Splendidly spectacular, intelligent and very well-acted. - 63
Miami Herald
What The Four Feathers lacks is genuine sweep or feeling or even a character worth caring about. - 63
New York Daily News
Ultimately, The Four Feathers is strong where its predecessors were weak (in the authenticity of combat) and weak where they were strong (in the larger-than-life quality of the characters). It's not a good exchange. - 60
Chicago Reader
The film's opening and closing moments are weirdly reminiscent of "Black Hawk Down," another tale of Western soldiers in over their heads on the dark continent -- clearly no one these days understands manifest destiny. - 50
Rolling Stone
It should have been an old-fashioned rouser, and sometimes it is. The great cinematographer Robert Richardson (JFK) lights the battle scenes like action paintings. But Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities. - 50
Village Voice
Feels both tiresomely old-fashioned and disturbingly topical. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Offers too small a dose of the blood-and-sand adventure you expect from this sort of big-budget Hollywood remake. As it is, it borders on The English Patient's on again-off again heroics, minus Anthony Minghella's patient skill in eliciting romantic suspense. - 40
The New Yorker
Illogical and glum. [30 Sept 2002, p. 145]
