Prizzi's Honor
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Movie Reviews of Prizzi's Honor
Movie Review: Amazingly weak considering the talent
Summary: 3 Stars
I remembered this being good, but those were rose-tinted lenses. The script is lame, all the "mafia" folks are anything but Sicilian (laughably so), Jack is definitely no Italian and not even very convincing in this role (he's just not a tough guy, deep down), and how did Angelica get an Oscar for this? She's barely ok, and her father's direction is some of the worst of his mostly splendid career.
This whole film just feels weak and flaccid. It might be meant to be a joke but it's almost never that funny, not very dramatic, and basically just flat. I wanted to like it but facts is facts. I've no idea why it seems so good to so many. Rose lenses as well? Have they seen GoodFellas, Casino, or the Godfather? THOSE are real mob flicks, black humor and all. THIS is some weird mishmash that just never gets off the ground. All the plot twists add up to little suspense. And some of the looping (voice dubbing) is simply horrible! It's like a bad 70s tv show at times.
There are some amusing moments and Jack is never all bad, but his chemistry with Turner is weak, and she seems very poor up against Jack's aura (even when he's weak he's a star, some guys just got it).
I love Jack and John Huston is one hell of a director when he's happening (though Polanski used Jack to far greater effect, and Huston too for that matter, in Chinatown), but save your time and watch the Godfather parts one and two again (or Chinatown, also long but more gracefully so). They are classics. This is a b-movie.
Movie Review: The less you know about it, the more you'll enjoy it
Summary: 3 Stars
So many of the laughs in Prizzi's Honor come from the plot twists (most of them included in the film's trailer) that it's best not to go into it knowing too much. The fact that I'd forgotten so many of them is perhaps why I enjoyed it so much more the second time around. It's a civilized entertainment - perhaps a little too civilized at times, although William Hickey's deathly white vampiric Don gives a whole new meaning to the phrase Cookie Monster - elegantly made and plotted, which wasn't so rare in 1985 but these days is a positive novelty. Jack Nicholson's hamming it up again, but not as much as usual as the luckless Mafia enforcer who meets the woman of his dreams only to discover she's ripped off the family. His comparative restraint helps keep the film from disappearing into slapstick and ridicule, but he still feels something of an impostor in this world - far more so than Kathleen Turner, on good form here as his fatal attraction. Quietly enjoyable.
Movie Review: 2 stars out of 4
Summary: 2 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Since I'm apparently the only person in the world who thinks this movie is terrible (despite loving John Huston and Jack Nicholson), it's my duty to report to you that Prizzi's Honor is overlong, completely unfunny, and a waste of two hours; I went in expecting something near a great film and went out feeling that this should never be mentioned in the same sentence as Treasure of the Sierra Madre or The Man Who Would Be King.
Movie Review: way overrated....
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a bad movie -- slow, poorly directed, indifferently acted, and mostly unfunny. Any episode of "The Sopranos" has more to offer Mob movie fans and aficionados of black humor.
Raised a star for Anjelica Huston, who delivers far and away the best performance in the film.
Movie Review: Bad.... everything really
Summary: 1 Stars
I have to admit I could only sit through this movie for about 45 minutes before I had to shut it off. It was that bad.
First of all the acting is horrible, even Jack Nickelson and Kathleen Turner. Jack's accent is afwul and both are really flat. Lowest point is where they confess there love to each other when a band is playing. The dialogue is so bad that George Lucas' Star Wars dialogues seem written by Shakespeare.
The music is great, nice classical stuff with a lot of strings. It would work wonderful in a costume drama but now it sounds like technomusic in a movie about a classical composer.
Looks like you really have to be Italian to get the accent right and not have it sound so rediculous like Nicholson and also Anjelica Huston.
Bad in everything, don't buy it