This film is pretty good, it's just way too long. And there are way too many subplots. At the heart of it all, it's just a classic story of a wife cheating on her lovely husband with a much hotter guy.
So, we first find the English Patient as he is being carried away from a burning plane. He's actually Hungarian but that's not important right now. What's interesting is that we expect him to be some kind of hero, but he's not. He's a normal person, and even has some bad traits.
The English Patient's real name is Count Almasy, and his nurse is Hana. I did not even recognize her until she cut her hair! She is the same lady from Chocolat. I love that movie. She doesn't want to transport him any longer, and knows he only has days to live. So, she moves into an abandoned building with him like a makeshift hospice. But she didn't check for bombs or booby traps! Luckily a crew comes in later to handle that.
Through flashbacks, we learn of Count Almasy's story, and it is pretty sad. Meanwhile, a romance blossoms between Nurse Hana and a handsome bomb removal guy. The whole movie, from the beginning of Count's romance to his death, covers the entirety of WWII. So we see a bit a history in a specific place. I didn't like Count and Katherine's romance, I thought they were overly rich selfish people. But Hana and the bomb removal guy's romance was more genuine.
The movie was overall okay, but it ended up with too many plotlines and dragged on because of that fact. I will give it a 6/10.
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