The Red Violin suffers in many ways from the same as The Legend of 1900 did. It's got the potential to be an epic tale, but lose its way as it moves along. Telling a story from the point of view of an object isn't a new idea, but still using an instrument is clever. Everybody usually have some magical thoughts when it comes to music, and as violins come in many different qualities we can easily enjoy the concept.
Running our way through three centuries is still not very inspiring as we only barely touch on the stories these people got. In many ways they could actually spin this story as a TV-show, and get to spend a lot more time with each owner of the violin. As it's now I feel we only touch the surface of what could have been, especially as the time spent on an uninspired present is too large portion of the movie.
Much good acting and many good ideas, but in the end I keep thinking what if they rather did this or that. That's still never a good thing with any movie.
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