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Movie Reviews of Revenge
Movie Review: Revenge DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Great Movie with Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn and Madeleine Stowe. I love it. Action, Drama, Romance all in one.Movie Review: favorit movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I just love this movie, I could watch it every week and still wouldn't be bored with it!Movie Review: A Man's Man Moovy...
Summary: 4 Stars
...Costner's character did not want to go down that road, but the lady of the house was beautiful and he couldn't help himself. Stowe wanted to remember what love felt like: she was being kept by the Latin aristocratic ancien regime figure Anthony Quinn (in full Onassis mode), who loved her like a caged canary which is admired from outside the cage...
So, Costner, the pilot, and Stowe (the nearest thing this Mexican land has to Evita) plans The Getaway, The Tryst, The Tete-a-tete...and just when they feel the world couldn't be any more heavenly, WHAM! Quinn and his men beat Costner within inches to death, they shoot the dog, they slash Stowe's beautiful face in half and throw Costner out in the road somewhere and Stowe in the Bordello so any one with the price to have her, can have their way.
And that would've probably been the end of the story, except Costner had fallen for the lady which has made him lose so much.
He wants to find her and he wants to get in touch with these dirty rats who did this to them. And he goes thru hell and high water to get to that point.
This isn't exactly a quick-edit, fire and explosions action flick. It moves slow. In fact, some critics say it moves too slow. But mebbe them guys didn't get it. It's slow and gritty and dusty and muggy and foggy as those days in Mexico can get. It has some breath taking camera work of the Mexican country side and some equally effective shots of lowlife in Mexican border towns. There are scenes which make you feel like you should get up and take a shower, they are so musty and full of sweat. And there is so much about honor between men. And dishonor between men.
And, to me that's the point.
And, like in real life, in the end, the boy gets the girl, but at a great price.
Movie Review: An often misunderstood film
Summary: 4 Stars
A story about uncontrollable passion and desire that forces two people to act upon impulses they know they should put aside---but they cannot control their true feelings, and act with reckless abandon.Madelaine Stowe is the lovely lady in an unfulfilling marriage to Tibby Mendez (Anthony Quinn) that Jay, Costner's character, almost immediately falls in love with.
Tibby belongs to the Mexican underworld, probably a drug king-pin, and befriends Jay who saved Tibby's life in a hunting accident. When Tibby invites Jay to spend a few weeks at his estate in Mexico, he never imagined Jay would attempt to steal his lovely young wife.
This is a solid story, with strong characters, and fine acting all around. However, understand what this film is not. This is not a 'date movie', and not a 'happy' story, but it does indeed reflect real life, and how things do not always end up rosy in the end, or the way we want them. It simply tells a good story, something many films never seem to accomplish, and we get to come along for the ride.
Some have criticized the last part of the film as being tough to watch, but if that were a reason not to like a film, Braveheart would be 'unwatchable' as well.
This is a story that anyone who has ever felt an uncontrollable passion for someone else, will identify with. Costner's character feels this when he falls for Tibby's wife, and again when he must find her---at all costs---when he loses her.
Movie Review: "I have already fathered dozens of children!"
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, that would seem to be the problem now wouldn't it?
A great under appreciated Costner action flick, but I think in general his work is slightly undervalued. A just retired F-14 pilot, Costner is anxious for some peace and quiet in Mexico hanging out at his remote cabin with his dog, and whacking tennis balls with his mobster pal/father figure Tibby, played convincingly by Anthony Quinn. Somehow during the development of their relationship, Tibby forgot to mention that he had an extraordinarily hot wife, Madeline Stowe, with a biological clock in unfulfilled overdrive. (Note to self: when you are 75 and married to a hot and sexually frustrated 30 year old, keep her away from your stud jet jockey buddies.)
OK, so we all know nothing good can come from this right. Well, Tibby finally gets a clue when he figures out why all the windows are steamed up in his desert villa, sets the dogs on our flyboy, and banishes his wife to a whore house where the proprietor is ordered to keep her hopped up on heroin while she is fed to the lowest rung of the social order they can drag up. Painful to watch actually as things appear to be semi-hopeless, but as the title suggests it ain't over til its over.
This is a great study in friendship, passion, betrayal, revenge, and ultimately justice. One of Tony Scott's better films IMO. The DVD presents a nice transfer, no extras, who cares...watch the movie. 4 Jeeps