Moby Dick is indeed from the classic novel of Melville but seeing it in 2015, one sees the flaws of the movie, flaws apparent in 1956 which had Moby Dick receive pretty terrible reviews without a single Oscar Nomination. John Huston's film cannot begin to approximate Herman Melville's subtle moral philosophy or evoke the complexity of the metaphors. Gregory Peck's performance as the unspeakably strange Captain Ahab is incapable of portraying the role's necessary lunacy. The grand scale of the film is at times sumptuous and its cinematography in technicolour, muted by some monochromatic filter is brilliant and startling yet this colossal film is incapable of delivering the true masterpiece Moby Dick should have been. The new Blu Ray restored version helps it along.
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