Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burton gets little chance to display his acting. Instead of watching the deterioration of a gentleman and a scholar, we are treated to a tedious string of ghouls and black magic, hot and voluptuous women--all of which loses any excitement after the first half-hour...
...think Taylor and Burton are bad in real movie magazine life, you should see them in Doctor Faustus. The film wastes what must have been a lavish budget and ignores the essence of Marlowe's play: Faustus's psychological torment...
...whole film is set in a world apart--a world of evil spirits, of voices in the air and tiny flashing lights. Burton and Richard McWhorter (the codirectors) should have tried--at the very least--to show how Faustus is gradually cut off from the other world--the world of his friends, of his servants and of God. But this other world fades away, and we are left with Richard Burton in the midst of hellions and sour pleasures. McWhorter and Burton should have set this off by showing more of the happy, normal life that presumably surrounds Faustus...
...years just aren't there. Burton looks the same as he did at the beginning of the movie. You just have to assume that somewhere along the line he asked Mephistopheles to keep him young-looking, because unless I was asleep at the time, there is nothing to explain this...
Faustus goes home and, after a few fancy ruminations, decides to abandon the ways of God. You get the idea that he used to be very godly and noble--Burton always looks either noble or once-noble no matter what part he plays. But when he repudiates his whole life after five minutes though, you have just put it down to the depravity...