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Perfect in every way.
There are so many things about this movie that made it so utterly beautiful. I bought a DVD player just for this movie. The scenes are enrapturing, the characterizations perfect, the singing expertly dubbed. The first time I saw this movie was with a friend; who, as a fellow Phantom Phan, told me that this was a must view. I sat down with an open mind, and not only laughed, cried, and gasped...but I was completely taken into this magnificent and so deliberately intricate plot.

Never have I sympathized with so many characters, understood them so much as I did for these. Charles Dance potrays a romantic, even sensual phantom, a very rare find in the horror movie retells of this old classic story. You never see the Phantom's face, but you don't need to. Many times as he's starting to take off the mask I thought there would be a glimpse...but there was always nothing. That is what makes a good movie. A movie where we can always wonder, and not be only dumbstruck at makeup and special effects.

The fact that this is filmed at the real Paris Opera House simply left me in awe. The few scenes where you see actual corridors and staircases from the monument give it a sense of reality...something no other Phantom movie has ever given me. This is perfect. Five stars. It would be so much more if possible. There is no flaw in this movie. It's simply a must.

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One Of The Greatest Love Stories Of All
This movie is the best version of 'Phantom Of The Opera' that I have ever seen. The music is wonderful, the cast is excellent, and the plot is very well done.

Charles Dance gives an extrordinary performance as the Phantom and he plays the part so well that you can't help but love the character.

The movie starts out with Christine Daee walking to the Opera House in hopes of finding a person to give her singing lessons. As it turns out, she was sent by a wealthy count to see the manager and recieve singing lessons.

The Manager, however, had been bought out by a different company. The new manager does not listen to what the old manager has to say and dismisses the legends of an Opera Ghost as poppycock. And that happens to be the first of his many mistakes. His second one is ignoring what The Phantom says and the third is casting his wife, who can't sing, as the lead female.

The Phantom then hears Christine sing and he offers to give her singing lessons. She then is heard at The Bistro where the manager of the Opera House casts her in the lead role.
This dosen't make his wife happy at all and therefore she sabatoges Christine's performance.

The Phantom then rescues Christine and takes her to his realm under the Opera House where she'll be safe. He treats her well, loves her, and then she asks him to let her see his face.
He refuses and then she tells that she can love him regardless of what he looks like because she knows his heart and has seen his eyes.

When he removes the mask, she faints and therefore he thinks she dosen't love him. When she tries to escape, he catches her and then puts her in a cage thing, which she busts out of and then runs above ground where the Count and the old manager happpen to be standing in the lobby when Christine comes out of a secret door. The count then gets her out and takes her to his Chateau where she is put to bed. but she recieves a dream where she sees the Phantom dying and she knows that she has to go back. The count does not aggree with her plan but she is insistent and so she sings the part of Margurite in Faust and the Phantom hears her. He comes to his box and sings the lead male role and the people love him. After the performance, he jumps onto the stage, grabs Christine and takes her to the roof where there is climatic finish where the phantom winds up dying and Christine winds up with the count.

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An entralling adventure into the soul of the Phantom...
While not the most accurate script (this movie is based off of the Yeston/ Kopit musical and not so much the novel by Leroux) I must admit this is my all-time favorite of the Phantom movies and the ONLY one I have seen that shows Erik in a similar light to Susan Kay's Phantom (which I adore). Charles Dance's voice grabs your attention from the first words he mutters to the final heart-wrenching scene. I thoroughly loved the back-story they created for Erik, seeing as he didn't have much of one in the original novel, and the inclusion of his father (Lancaster) while originally disconcerting was well-played out and fit in well with Charles' portrayal of Erik. It was Charles' Phantom that I fell in love with, it was Charles whom cemented by status as a Phan, and it is Charles who shall always be first on my list of Phantom loves.

My only real complaint about this movie is Christine....I swear, every time she said "If you love me..." I wanted to KILL her for being such a manipulating so-and-so. And Phillipe (Raoul) was a FOP if I've ever seen one, and quite the man-whore XD Pathetic!

Carlotta and her husband were a bundle of laughs and a much-needed reprive from Christine and her stupidity.

All I can say of the final Faust trio is this.....It makes me cry! I never thought I could ever really like opera at all until I heard and saw that scene. I get the shivers just thinking about it. *smiles* All in all, although it is not a loyal adaptation to the novel, it is by far the best of all the Phantom movies, save the Man of a Thousand Faces himself! Bravissimo!