It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Absolutely the worst movie.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I missed this movie during its release. Never heard of it until just now, 14 years later. Watched it on a retro channel on a Sunday afternoon.I never write reviews on movies, products, anything. But I have to say, after visiting the IMDb site to follow-up with some of the details, I am surprised at the low ratings and negative reviews. Thus, I speak.I enjoyed this movie from beginning to end. I wonder what was different in my viewing and assessment than those of the harsh reviews that were written over a decade ago. I think it may have to do with the tension and emotional wounds so wide-spread during that time. People really did have a need to throw punches at almost anything and everything during those days.It thought Madonna was definitely the highlight. I enjoyed both actors, but she looked good and played the role exceptionally well. Her age was a factor in the script.I remember seeing her volunteering to sing for a relief benefit subsequent to the Sri Lanka disaster. If I remember correctly, that was a couple of years after Swept Away was released. I had not seen much of her since the 80's and 90's (back in the MTV funnel breasts video days, which I thought was cute), but whenever I saw her sing for that benefit I was so very impressed. She looked and sounded greater than ever. That's the way I saw her in the movie.There are some people whose looks and skills continually progress without climax. Madonna is one of those.

It was not like any other Guy Ritchie movies, or even not like normal movies. It was more like porno made by some Japanese male chauvinistic perverts. This movie's point was distracted from criticizing capitalism's contradictions, which I guess this film wanted to talk about in the first place, by some sex dilemma expressed violently by ignorant sailor-hero. As saying more about the content(because everyone knows their acting was awful), this film's underlying criticism was not gentle, or sharp, but it was just revengeful. there was nothing but I-am-poor-but-happy sailor who wants to rape spoiled rich woman as I sought class in this film desperately. This poor quality of this film may have two excuses: either lack of talent of all staffs of this movie, or fragments of painful life in capitalism society which probably made Guy Ritchie crave vendetta by making this unhappy movie or by another way. I don't know what's to blame, but this movie is poor for sure.

Swept Away (2002) * (out of 4) Guy Richie's remake of the 1974 classic has Madonna playing the rich woman who finds herself on a deserted island with a poor Italian farmer (Adriano Giannini) who decides to turn the tables and teach her what it really means to be a worker. SWEPT AWAY got killed by the critics and often times I think critic and fans are too harsh on remakes. It seems that most of the time the remake is just beaten to death simply because it dared to remake a great film. This here is in no way, shape or form better than the original. We can just throw that out right now and there's no question that there's not a single thing here better than the previous film. With that out of the way, there's also no question that we're left with a really bad movie. It seems a lot of people want to blame Madonna for the film's disastrous quality but she only deserves part of the blame. The majority has to go to her then husband Richie who doesn't do anything right here. Everything feels rushed. The movie has no laughs or romance. Nothing that happens is believable. The entire picture just has a rather cheap feel to it. There's nothing here that works in regards to the technical stuff. The only thing that saves this from being a complete bomb is the performance by Giannini who is the son of the actor who played the same part in the original. He's certainly not as good as daddy but I thought he was very much watchable and at least gave it his all. The performance would have been greatly used in a better movie but sadly everything around him is just bad. This includes the performance by Madonna. Who knows why she even thought she could do anything with this role but she's not believable when she's being the mean rich woman and she's not believable in any form that this character changes into. The two just don't have any chemistry together but a lot of the blame here can go towards the director and screenplay. There's some nice visuals but a monkey could put a camera in a beautiful location and it would still look great. SWEPT AWAY is a really bad movie but at the same time it's bad enough to where fans of bad movies should at least get a kick out of it.

Not for a moment did I think, as I slid the DVD into my player, that I would think this was a good film. I mean, it stars Madonna and, ten years later, even *I* had not seen it, so clearly I knew it was bad. However, I could not have prepared myself for how truly bad this film is. I mean really, really bad.About a rich woman and a migrant Italian fisherman getting stranded on a deserted island and inexplicably falling for each other, this film has absolutely no redeeming features at all. I have never heralded Madonna's acting skills, but in films like "Who's that Girl" and "Shanghai Surprise," she was not as bad as critics have made her out to be. But in this film, she did herself no favours...her performance here is absolutely the worst she has ever done. Watching made me cringe from the moment she appeared on screen to the moment the credits rolled, allowing for a sigh of relief. And, to be fair, Adriano Giannini's performance was not much better.I cannot begin to understand how in the world Guy Ritchie directed such a monumental pile of crap. And why did, Bruce Greenwood and Elizabeth Banks even sign on to appear in this? Just by reading the incredibly idiotic script, anyone associated to this film should have dropped it faster than a Kardashian's underpants at a basketball game.A monumental fail of epic proportions, even if you are a fan of Madonna, do not waste your time on this film. It made me lose any and all respect for her as an actress, despite her exquisite turn in "Evita." Ritchie would have been better off divorcing Madonna immediately than agreeing to make this ridiculous film. All copies of the film should be swept away and forgotten forever.