The Beguiled
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Movie Reviews of The Beguiled
Movie Review: Unique thriller/drama
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
A film rather unlike any other I've seen (the closest movie I can think of would probably be Misery, but they're significantly different), The Beguiled concerns a Union soldier who finds himself convalescing in a house full of dangerous Southern woman while the war rages outside them; full of Freudian undertones and skillfully directed by Don Siegel, this is a different type of Eastwood movie that might surprise you.
3/4
Movie Review: Beguiled: ahead of its time
Summary: 4 Stars
this is one of those great movies from the 70/80's that's really disturbing in the way that only those movies are---you know, how even the quality of the film makes you feel dirty? I wonder if Misery and Boxing Helena borrowed from the Beguiled----Clint's got his hands full with this one!Movie Review: Level of content
Summary: 4 Stars
I have not seen this movie, but have heard that the level of sexuality is high compared to Eastwood's other films. Does it really deserve the R rating it received? How does the content compare to the movies that are out these days?Movie Review: Bill Clinton as a Union Soldier?
Summary: 3 Stars
Tagline aside, this film stars Clint Eastwood, not Bill Clinton. He plays a Union soldier wounded in a battle with confederates. He is found by a young girl (apr. 12) who is a student at a southern girls' school run by a strict school mistress with very patriotic (Confederate) sympathies. Eastwood manages to persuade the girl (with a kiss) not to raise an alarm and notify the Confederate soldiers in the area. He further manages to charm the women at the school into helping to heal him and delaying reporting his presence to the authorities.
Eastwood manages this feat by telling each of the women and girls what he thinks they want to hear. He can appear pious, loving, patriotic, amorous or any other way that will appeal to whatever woman he comes into contact with ranging from the schoolmistress to the slave woman who helps out around the place. He manages to convince each of them that she is his primary interest. When things begin to go bad, they go very bad indeed and the women realize that they have created a monster. Their method for dealing with the monster is fairly monstrous itself.
This is an interesting drama that is usually hailed as one of Eastwood's better films but I would not classify it as such. It is worth viewing but is not one of my favorites.
Movie Review: Bayou Brothel
Summary: 3 Stars
THE BEGUILED is a Clint Eastwood film you seldom hear about, and it really isn't worth seeing. It involves Eastwood playing an injured Union soldier who is wounded in the south and taken up by an all-girls boaring school. Instead of turning him over to the Confedrates, they decide to nurse him to health, andf the result is all the women literally fightin over him. Directed by the late, great Don Siegel, THE BEGUILED is a type of movie I have never seen before. It involves Eastwood being the victim and the antagonist at the same time. Having mutiple affairs in the boarding school eventually leads to intense conflicts which results in the women plotting to kill him. The sad ending coupled with the bizarre plot are the reasons why this is not of Eastwood's better films. He does give a good performance as John McBurney, and the agony he suffers after his leg is amputated will really shake Eastwood fans.