Alicia I love this movie so much

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Adrienne Cox This is by far the best historical drama I have ever seen! The acting was completely amazing and it kept me completely entranced up to the very last second! In fact, I was so entranced that I finished the series in less than a week on Netflix. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes historical dramas! My one and only complaint is not for the show itself but for the people who made the show. I do not like that it was canceled in the slightest! It deserves a fourth season! Save The Borgias Fan Campaign is still working to bring it back though and I highly urge anyone who is a fan of the show to come join it.

Roedy Green The most important thing to understand is the movie is about villainy, deeply disturbing villainy, sick to your stomach cruelty and torture.The costumes are magnificent, perhaps somewhat cleaner, sparkling, and well fitting that they were in history.The actors male and female are beautiful. The camera lets you study them to drink in their beauty. The lighting is magical.It has an enormous cast, and many scenes with hundreds of extras.To hear the pope, Jeremy Irons, in 1492 using slang phrases from our day jarred me many times. They were out of time and out of character.Scenes I particularly enjoyed were recreations of what it would be like to walk from the countryside into Rome or Naples. This felt like magic with the wide angle views.They manage to compresses into a few minutes a Romeo-and-Juliet tale that leaves you even more emotionally shaken than Shakespeare's.This is a very high quality, high budget production. However, it left me feeling absolutely ill and in despair.

petarmatic I waited for such a series about Borgias for a long time and I finally found one! And what a series it is! Jeremy Irons is fantastic, albeit he is not so fat as the real pope Alexander. The rest of the cast is superb as well, so are the sets and costumes! What a story is that Pope, and his son Cesare and his daughter Lucrezia! Sex, poison, war, incest, fight for power all in one place. Truly a revolutionary Pope, he ushered a new era, the Renesaince. He changed humanity for good and probably started protestant movement in Europe at that time. The New World was discovered, he delimited Spanish and Portugese sphere of influence there. And while he was at it Cesare feasted in cutting people throats to protect him and the Family(yes people think it was the beginning of Mafia). Cesare was so cruel that everyone in Rome thought it unacceptable. Pope and Cesare died the same night. Were they poisoned? Probably! Curia could not have any more of that behavior, people all over Catholic world were asking questions, Martin Luther was looking everything with his eyes wide shut! I hope I will live to see another Pope like him again! Not like this Francis, he just talks about peace, give me some crusades, war, dear Francis! Well at least you said homosexuality is good! That is a start, soon you will have gay orgies in Vatican, eh? Who knows, may be you will soon OK pedophilia too. That would be a start. Your own Cesare and Lurezia could be in the offing... Pity we do not have a chance to see the end of all of this, since HBO canceled the series. I could of feasted my eyes a little bit more on those fantastic actors, sets and costumes. How about a closure, HBO, ha? They deserve it!

SnoopyStyle It's 1492 Italy, the Borgias family rises to the Papacy through deceit and intrigue. They have much more in common with the Mob. There's almost nothing they wouldn't do. Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons) is the patriarch and becomes Pope Alexander VI.Who knew sex and violence in the Vatican could be so much fun? I guess Neil Jordan did, as he's the one who created this delicious show. To have such a great actor like Jeremy Irons to play the Pope is a major coup. And to have Colm Feore as the foil is just icing on the cake. It lasted 3 seasons, but I really wished that they could have 4 seasons as Neil Jordan had planned.