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Why so much hype?

Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Blistering performances.

This film seems to me to be about nostalgia and genteel decadence vs. new decadence of late 60s in midst of 'sexual' and other liberation(s). I don't know how this was presented in the original Graham Greene novel. I suspect a differently shaded picture would come to our mind. Otherwise, I've just read one critics review of "Travel" elsewhere, which somehow refers to plot and the main characters lives beyond the time period shown in the film. Perhaps he got mixed up. Noted that Katherine Hepburn wouldn't didn't do this one. Imagine!It is good but too self-important. Maybe one would feel better watching it in a purple haze while chuckling over the over-the-top story and some of the acting, to enjoy the sumptuous, exotic interiors and location shots. With mood enhanced by the score.

I'm fine with filmmakers adapting books to the screen and doing what they need to do to make the source material cinematic. But I'm always mystified by filmmakers who adapt a book to the screen and change so much that it's nearly a completely different story. I wonder why they wanted to adapt the book in the first place if they felt that so much of it was inadequate.This is a terrible adaptation of the wonderful Graham Greene novel, that even a dynamic performance from Maggie Smith in the title role cannot save. George Cukor directs this film like it's a relic from a different decade. Yes, the main character is stodgy and stuffy but that doesn't mean the movie has to be. And by the time the ending has rolled around, all vestiges of the source material have vanished completely, an unforgivable crime in my opinion when working with an author as great as Greene.Grade: D

I was disappointed in this as so much is just great.Cindy Williams is terrific as a hippy-dippy train passenger. Alec McCowan is wonderful as the bewildered strait-laced nephew who gradually allows himself to cut loose from his narrowly defined life. It was great to hear and see a much different Lou Gossett, with outrageous robes and an odd African accent that works in this. The location shooting was beautifully done, particularly in Paris.Maggie Smith's performance (and I am a fan of Maggie's) was just too loud, too dramatic, just way too over the top, so that when her sad side emerged, it came across as equally phony. Her makeup as a very much older woman is flawless and when she played her younger self, it was a much more controlled performance.I think Maggie could have used better direction here. A great story that at some time needs to be filmed again. Alec Mc Cowan's performance makes it highly watchable. He gets is just right.I gave it a 7 out of 10.

With all the talent connected to this film, it's amazing that it isn't better. Katharine Hepburn was the original choice for the lead, but some kind of contract dispute stopped her from doing it. Maggie Smith took over the role and won an Academy Award nomination. Even so, many critics complained at the time that she over-acted, but I feel she's the life and breath of what fun there is in the movie.