Product Details

• Actors: Ben Cross, Peter Weller, Marco Bonini, Guy Lankester, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
• Directors: Alberto Negrin
• Writers: Alberto Negrin, George Eastman, Valerio Manfredi
• Producers: Brendan Fitzgerald, Jonas Bauer, Mario Gallo, Steven North
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Italian
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: May 1, 2007
• Run Time: 190 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000NA78SO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,948 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Tower of the Firstborn" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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TOWER OF THE FIRSTBORN - DVD Movie

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 3 hours of my life I'll never get back, January 31, 2008

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Pearl U - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tower of the Firstborn (DVD)

Ok actually 2 1/2hours since I fast forwarded through the fight scenes. I think a better title for this would be "Bored in the desert" a movie about a group of actors and camera people who are stranded for several weeks in the desert and decide to make a film.

The movie suffers from lack of plot, lack of character development, horrible acting and lack of film quality. Perhaps the desert storms were responsible for some major equipment dysfunction. It is pretty obvious the actors were a little confused - their acting is stiff and mechanical - I've seen elementary school plays with more flow. Maybe it's because the story is going nowhere and does nothing. The characters are so empty you really don't care for any of them - except maybe Ben Cross's character who you sort of feel sorry for since he obviously is a villian on the wrong set. Luckily I just rented this and didn't spend money on it. Really it is a "must NOT see".

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Desert Romance, July 12, 2009

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St. Margo (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tower of the Firstborn (DVD)

I find it terminally annoying when "Kid's" who don't have a clue about either love nor romance rent a film and then trash it in a "Bubble Gum" review without actually expressing "why and what for?" This film is excellent for what it is, and it does not pretend to be anything at all other than "What it is!"

It is nothing more than a Desert Adventure/Romance set in a time when the very notion of such ideology permeated Western culture as a whole. Think, "Sheik Of Arabay" and such!

While not being a "Great" film such as Sean Connery's "Wind And The Lion" it is a good film for the genre of which it is intended to portray. The Costume's are excellent and fairly historically accurate; "ala" Jean Leon Gerome, regardless of whether or not they were made of polyester as was stated by one reviewer. No doubt that reviewer was part of the costume team on the set?

Jean Leon Gerome, for those of you either under 50 year's of age or having had little in the way of Art History in your education, was the leading painter of the "ORIENTALIST SCHOOL" of art in the 19th and early 20th century.

Therefore and henceforth, I would strongly suggest to those of you without such background knowledge to reserve your unfounded opinion's without due access to further study, or perhaps you might consider restricting yourselves to the common garden variety "Slasher Movie."

Might I suggest "Jason Go's To Hell." I'm certain that you might find him there?

St. Margo ......... !

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh My Gosh!, February 10, 2008

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R. J. Reid "Kanajlo" (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tower of the Firstborn (DVD)

So interminably long, so poorly acted, and the greatest ANTI-climax I can imagine -- long after my legs have turned to wood. Nice polyester costumes, though, set in a time long before the invention of polyester.(Oh, honey, I can't feel my legs!)