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The Best Man Reviews

1999 Certificate 15
  • Rated:
  • 70
  • from 1100 members

A glossy romantic comedy, The Best Man centres on four college friends and the women in their lives, all brought back together for a wedding. Taye Diggs (How Stella Got Her Groove Back) plays the title character, a young writer whose first novel is a barely fictionalised account of his college days, featuring barely .. Read more

Starring Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau
Director Malcolm D. Lee
Genres Comedy

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  • Critics' reviews (3) of The Best Man

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Partly inspired by the exploits of his own grandfather, Pupi Avati's melodrama is set on the last day of the 19th century and deals its resulting symbolism with a heavy hand. Equally maladroit is the fact that Diego Abatantuono acquired his fortune in the United States, thus weaving a New/Old world thread into an already over-laden tapestry. There's no faulting Pasquale Rachini's sumptuous photography or the lavish attention to period detail. But there's something damningly novelettish about Inès Sastre's attempt to circumvent her marriage to doddering tycoon Dario Cantarelli by addressing her vows to Abatantuono, his dashingly mysterious best man.

    • Radio Times
  • As Harper Stewart (Diggs) prepares to act as best man at a friend's wedding, it emerges that his about-to-be-published... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
  • Bland romantic comedy among the upwardly mobile, in which women come off as second best to the men.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
  • Most helpful members' reviews (3) of The Best Man

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Great movie with something for everybody to connect with. It has laughter and tears but ultimately is a great story with characters that we can all connect with. The build up to the wedding is great as the 2 lead charactersfriendship is tested. Great sound track and is a movie you can watch again and again, cause you take something different away each time.

      • Hew#1 from BRISTOL
  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    THIS IS A BRILLIANT FILM WITH SUPERB BLACK ACTORS.

    THERE SHOULD BE A CATEGORY FOR BLACK FILMS.

      • VINBABY#1 from LONDON
  • 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Great movie! The storyline is simply perfect and it flows very easily throughout the movie! Taye Diggs played a great role along with Morris Chestnut! The DVD has a lot of bonus features!

      • AD#1 from KINGSTON
  • Most recent members' reviews (2) of The Best Man

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Good fun

    This movie had me interested from the start. It has that 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' feel to it yet gets quite serious in parts. Some cool 80s (or is it 90s) dance moves in the end, some hunky men (check out Taye's six pack in the bathtub!) and some shocking stag night displays.

      • MilkyMocha from Kent
  • 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Great movie! The storyline is simply perfect and it flows very easily throughout the movie! Taye Diggs played a great role along with Morris Chestnut! The DVD has a lot of bonus features!

      • AD#1 from KINGSTON
  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Great movie with something for everybody to connect with. It has laughter and tears but ultimately is a great story with characters that we can all connect with. The build up to the wedding is great as the 2 lead charactersfriendship is tested. Great sound track and is a movie you can watch again and again, cause you take something different away each time.

      • Hew#1 from BRISTOL
  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    THIS IS A BRILLIANT FILM WITH SUPERB BLACK ACTORS.

    THERE SHOULD BE A CATEGORY FOR BLACK FILMS.

      • VINBABY#1 from LONDON
  • 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Great movie! The storyline is simply perfect and it flows very easily throughout the movie! Taye Diggs played a great role along with Morris Chestnut! The DVD has a lot of bonus features!

      • AD#1 from KINGSTON
  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Good fun

    This movie had me interested from the start. It has that 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' feel to it yet gets quite serious in parts. Some cool 80s (or is it 90s) dance moves in the end, some hunky men (check out Taye's six pack in the bathtub!) and some shocking stag night displays.

      • MilkyMocha from Kent
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Fun and entertaining

    A well chosen cast delivered a fine performance in this easy going and very entertaining movie. Morris Chestnut is a pleasure to watch no matter what!!!!!!!!!!

      • NC from Kent
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Loved it , Loved it, Loved it!

    so much I bought the movie!

      • Gemma G from England
  • Rated - 4 stars

    Takes a long time to get going and Taye Diggs is not the most versatile of actors, but he looks good as do all the supporting cast. Visually this film is a treat and the moral of the story is worth noting.

      • A customer from LONDON
  • 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    great

    very good

    if looking for romance with some gooood acting this is the film to watch

      • A customer from huddersfield
  • Rated - 3 stars

    ok

    cool gal flick movie, can watch it once twice, but not too often

      • A customer from Cardiff
  • 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Who did they mean?

    Though it was very enjoyable to see a film starring positive, successful Black characters without the usual stereotyping as underworld criminals or struggling poor people, for some reason I couldn't become emotionally involved with the individuals portrayed here, and the romantic problems of the best man, friends, bride and groom of an a forthcoming wedding.

    Although it was well acted and professionally filmed, it just lacked that certain something so did not move me as much as it was clearly meant to do. So much was happening I found it even difficult to work out who the lead characters were, or to really connect with them. However, I look forward to seeing some of these actors again, in another movie, in the future.

  • Critics' reviews (3)

  • 3 stars out of 5

    Partly inspired by the exploits of his own grandfather, Pupi Avati's melodrama is set on the last day of the 19th century and deals its resulting symbolism with a heavy hand. Equally maladroit is the fact that Diego Abatantuono acquired his fortune in the United States, thus weaving a New/Old world thread into an already over-laden tapestry. There's no faulting Pasquale Rachini's sumptuous photography or the lavish attention to period detail. But there's something damningly novelettish about Inès Sastre's attempt to circumvent her marriage to doddering tycoon Dario Cantarelli by addressing her vows to Abatantuono, his dashingly mysterious best man.

    • Radio Times
  • As Harper Stewart (Diggs) prepares to act as best man at a friend's wedding, it emerges that his about-to-be-published... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
  • Bland romantic comedy among the upwardly mobile, in which women come off as second best to the men.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide

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