All the Queen's Men | | Cast : | Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, Udo Kier | | Director : | Stefan Ruzowitzky | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 13, 2005 | | Summary | Less Matt Leblanc & this would have been a good movie | Content
 | There are only two reasons to watch "All the Queen's Men": Eddie Izzard as a bisexual drag queen and Scotland's James Cosmo as an older family man and inadvertent mommy. Izzard is both funny and touching as a man who will go to any length to be with his love, and Cosmo is downright heart-tugging (in an honest way) as he uncovers emotions he would've never encountered under normal circumstances.
Matt LeBlanc is badly miscast as Bruce Campbell, er, Special Services Agent O'Rourke. It's a pity he has no charm in this role, nor does he have any chemistry with the equally wooden Nicollete Krebitz. Rent it, if only to see how damn good Eddie Izzard can be as an actor, and how James Cosmo displays such wonderfully subtle emotion, especially in the German bombing scene. If the whole movie had been as excellent as that one scene, it may have lasted a LOT longer in the theaters. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 07, 2005 | | Summary | Action Transvestite | Content
| "Running, jumping, climbing trees...putting on make-up when you get there" is how Eddie Izzard describes his life as an Action Transvestite. And it's true, in this movie, you get to see Eddie running around in heels and a gown, carrying a big gun. In all honesty, he is the most skilled, of the cast, in heels and dresses. And it seems like the perfect combination of major topics from his show "Dressed to Kill," World War II and Nazi Germany, Great Britain defending itself, slap dash army make-up, there are even shades of "The Great Escape."
But this movie is definitely a "renter." I don't care how much you love Eddie Izzard, don't buy it. Matt LeBlanc is tepid at best, and there's not enough time devoted to the supporting cast to save the film. Interesting in its own way, but even bargain basement prices couldn't entice me. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 24, 2005 | | Summary | For Izzard fans | Content
| I bought this DVD from the previously-viewed bin at my local video store. The only reason I picked it up was for Eddie Izzard. The fact that Matt LeBlanc was in it scared me. I found that the movie, though full of plot holes, was actually much better than I feared. For fans of Eddie Izzard, it definitely is worth watching, and I would also say it is worth buying, if you can get it used. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 19, 2004 | | Summary | Just Bad... Really Bad | Content
| Not a normal reviewer of movies, but after sitting through the entire film, felt the need to express in return for the money I spent.
This movie is bad from start to finish. For a comedy it is not funny, and as a war movie / drama it is fatally flawed. Starting with the opening scene in which the LeBlanc charachter plays an OSS officer who has his stolen Enigma machine destroyed by the Brits because they think it is a typewritter and it is not allowed to have German office supplies. Then they throw him in the British stockade because he bit a British officer. I can think of 40 different ways that you could have put LeBlancs' character with the Brits and this was not one of them.
Speaking of LeBlanc - he is AWFUL! He is still playing the same character from Lost in Space. Back to the story line. So then lets put his character behind enemy lines in Berlin where he does not speak German. Lets pretend he / she is Italian. Wait - he also does not speak Italian. Lets have the old Brit Sargent hide in the back of a car during a party - but never explain why or use his character through the whole scene.
Lets wrap it up with a clever escape from a German airfield. All of the planes scramble for some reason - including the transport planes. Not sure how a German transport plane can shoot down a B-17, but they were in a hurry to fly off with the fighters. There is one transport plane on the ground that the germans can start. LeBlanc over powers the crew and starts the plane right up. Only then when taking off do the Germans appear from the barracks to shoot at the plane while taking off. This of course after a 10 minite gun battle and explosions that they must have been sleeping through.
This film has no redeeming values, unless you like to hear Eddie Izzard sing in drag. It is just plain bad. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 27, 2004 | | Summary | Umm...okay | Content
| All The Queen's Men isn't a bad movie but it isn't a very good one either. It's kind of like an extended sitcom that picks up nicely at the end and in so doing redeems itself a little bit. It's a fairly simple story about a team of spies who go undercover as women in Nazi Germany to steal a codebreaking device. Obviously most of the humor comes from the cross-dressing concept but it actually does provide somewhat of a clever action plot once the plan gets under way. Eddie Izzard is great as always in a role that seems to be tailor-made for him. Matt LeBlanc is funny but it's hard to believe that anyone would ever be convinced that he's a woman. And not for nothing, but how can this man be a spy inside Germany when he doesn't speak German? What's frustrating and ultimately detracting from the film is that there are numerous opportunities for sub-plots and themes that would add enormously to the story but they are not used to full advantage, except for the one involving Izzard's character's German male lover. There are some isolated moments of cleverness involving the mission, typical of what you would see in a well-crafted action film. There are a handful of laugh-out-loud moments but don't set your expectations too high. |
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