Customer Reviews
Have No Fear - By: Ford Ka, 19 Jan 2008 
Fans of the better known "Forsters" such as Maurice, A Room with a View, the works of Merchant & Ivory, & fairly similar A Passage to India, may be quite disappointed with this much more quiet & less colourful production. The story-line also offers less of a twist - this is EM Forster's first novel & he was still learning his trade. Still the movie is well worth seeing - the story & the beautiful images in dusky sepias as if taken from old photographs will keep enthrallled you in front of the telly if only you can accept that the world changed immensely within the last century. A big bonus is a chance to see world-famous actors in roles not exactly identical with their current careers.
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - By: S. Johnson, 05 Jan 2008 
I had high expectations of this film; never judge a book (or a dvd)by its cover!
The film starts off okay but as soon as the film jumps to the sequences in Italy it declines to a slow pace. In principle, the story line is a good one but the film fails to portray it with weak acting. Disappointing!Glad I only paid a couple of quid for it. Though, it may appeal more to some.
Terrible soundtrack and somehow not quite right - By: Jon Freeman, 22 Aug 2006 This was a slightly disappointing film which does not achieve the excellence that Charles Sturridge is so famed for with Brideshead Revisited. It is a strong story with a good script with interesting culture clashes leading to tragic outcomes, but for me didn't quite gel. Individuallly the cast are alll good, but the whole was less than the sum of its parts. Even so I would have probably given it 4 stars had it not been for a reallly bad job on the soundtrack where the music is so loud that when you set the volume comfort the dialogue becomes inaudible (often very softly spoken anyway). It is an engaging film though & well worth watching. I didn't check whether the DVD had subtitles. If it does I recommend using them.
A Very Superb Work - By: Dennis Lee Cleven, 13 Jul 2006 
This may be E.M. Forster's first novel but it is a faithful adaptation & a very fine film. I don't see what others finding lacking in this excellent motion picture. The cast works marvelously together. Helena Bonham Carter gives a very superb performance acting against her usual more glamourous roles. Rupert Graves & Judy Davis are excellent as the son & daughter of the great Barbara Jefford who is extremely memorable as the manipulating mother-in-law of Helen Mirren. Judy Davis is extraordinary as a mirror image of Barbara Jefford without the latter's cunning devices.
The story is captivating & the scenes, costumes & direction are alll first rate. I find that this film is of great quality & belongs perfectly well with the other E.M. Forster adaptations. Perhaps some are biased because this isn't marked Ivory Merchant? I wouldn't know that it wasn't Ivory Merchant. It is of equal quality. The direction, script, & actors make this story very plausible. It would have been a greater box office success but it was not publisied as much as "Howard's End". I still find it a superb film & highly recommend it.
Where Angels Fear To Dread - By: Greg Farefield-Rose, 26 May 2006 
Released between Merchant- Ivory's versions of two other EM Forster novels, A Room with A View & Howard's End, I always thought that WAFTT was also made by the talented duo but it is a pale imitation of their work. With a story that doesn't fit together well & unsympathetic characters who don't reallly develop WAFTT is basicallly not a particularly well made film. Not terrible but it has some quite basic flaws.
