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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Directed by
John Glen
PG-13
1992
2h
Drama
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Adventure
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4.4
7%
17%
4.8
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Genoese navigator overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the East Indies.
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Cast of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Georges Corraface
Christopher Columbus
Marlon Brando
Tomas de Torquemada
Tom Selleck
King Ferdinand
Rachel Ward
Queen Isabella
Robert Davi
Martin Pinzon
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Beatriz
Oliver Cotton
Harana
Benicio del Toro
Alvaro Harana
Mathieu Carrière
King John
Manuel de Blas
Vicente Pinzon
Glyn Grain
De La Cosa
Peter Guinness
Fra Perez
Nigel Terry
Roldan
Nitzan Sharron
Benjamin
Steven Hartley
Terreros
George Fisher
Fernando
Branscombe Richmond
Indian Chieftain
Tailinh Agoyo
Indian Girl
John Glen
Director
John Briley
Screenplay
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Peter Rainer
It's not politically correct. It's also not cinematically correct, humanly correct or historically correct.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Released in 1,492 theaters on Friday, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery should be gone from most of them faster than you can hoist the mainsails and shiver your timbers.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Cast in the title role is George Corraface, whose credits include Not Without My Daughter and Impromptu. Does he overact? Let's just say that I think I heard him frown.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
The film benefits greatly from the use of three totally authentic ship replicas, but the real thing -- as presented in the PBS series about Columbus -- is still much more inspiring.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
George Corraface would look more comfortable in a Calvin Klein underwear ad than at the helm of a ship.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Candice Russell
Dry as an outdated textbook, scintillating as the droning of your worst schoolteacher, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery is a colossal disaster.
TV Guide
This daft biographical epic reveals that the Europeans came West in search of many things: a new trade route to India and China; new souls to be converted to Christianity; new sources of gold; and new girlfriends with larger breasts.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Most of the picture is so hilariously Hollywooden that nobody could mistake it for real history.
People Magazine
Ralph Novak
All right, maybe the world isn't flat. But this listless historical epic sure is.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
The drama never catches fire, cycling through the same beats of uncertainty and blame to a point of screen stasis. The opening driving montage of Manos: The Hands of Fate has more of a filmmaking zip.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery lacks even the misplaced energy of a camp folly. It's limp and exhausted -- a bloodless swashbuckler.
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
John Glen's take on the Genovese explorer adds up to perfectly serviceable commercial entertainment -- there are a few moments where Kirk Douglas or Charlton Heston would have felt right at home.
Moviehole
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New York Times
Vincent Canby
Expensive, sloppy and, at its most ambitious, a frail reminder of the Warner Brothers swashbucklers that Michael Curtiz used to turn out with Errol Flynn.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This movie takes one of history's great stories and treats it in such a lackluster manner that Columbus' voyage seems as endless to us as it did to his crew.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The Discovery comes across more like cut-rate, bargain-basement ABC Movie of the Week than it does as a legitimate take on that squirrelly little explorer of yore.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
What it offers is a portrait of the Genoan visionary as sea hunk, and manages to make the portentous moment of discovery, the setting of feet on the sands, about as emotionally thrilling as two-man beach volleyball.
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