The Chase
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Movie Reviews of The Chase
Movie Review: Lillian,Arthur,Marlon and Jane did their best work here.
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this 2004 DVD,expecting a hack copy. I was so wrong. Great DVD.I was fortunate enough to hear Mr. Penns interview about his direction of this film. Set in Texas in the post war era,Horton Footes novel laid a good foundation for this film,updated to the 60's. I read the book,fully expecting to excoriate Ms. Hellman for her work,but I must say she did a fine job of turning a dour and sad story and making it a compelling story about the nature of man under the pressure of his own cconscience.This film suffers only from two problems,the low budget,forcing studio lot shooting,and the excessive editing at the insistence of the studio heads who feared fanning the flames of the civial unrest we suffered in the mid 60s. The result is,as Mr. Penn lamented,that a fine film ended up on the cutting room floor.The product we are left with is a timeless look into the heart of man,bless Lillians commie soul.Get it. Watch it. Keep it to show your children. How movies can really move you.Movie Review: A good but uncomfortable movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I have no doubt that my small town in Georgia could have easily been the backdrop of this film forty years ago. Despite that, when I sat down to watch this I thought it was a little slow getting started, but somewhere around the middle you realize that it was necessary to lay the ground work. For the longest time I couldn't believe Redford's character's name was Bubber and not Bubba. Anyhoot, I'm not a Brando fan. Sorry. But I think he's highly overrated and was really famous because he was quite a looker when he was younger. To my surprise, I actually enjoyed him in this film. I wasn't too impressed with Redford, but we can't always get it right. Overall, this a good film and really worth seeing.Movie Review: Worth seeing for the stellar cast
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved this film when it first came out, due probably to the amazing cast. It's still wonderful to watch this group of talented, beautiful actors, all in their prime. The story doesn't hold up as well but it is well enough done to hold your interest.
Movie Review: Worth a look--- a near non-classic with a stellar cast....
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an interesting film-- a mid-60s, moody film attempting to portray the underbelly of a small, corrupt Texas town with the honest sheriff (Marlon Brando, fine in one of his beat-me-to-a-pulp performances) trying to bring in escaped, framed convict and local boy (Robert Redford) and elicit girlfriend Jane fonda's help in doing so before the jackals can get him first.This film almost works: there's strong support from EG Marshall as the oil tycoon, Angie Dickinson as Brando's desperate wife, Robert Duvall as wimpish bank-officer who helped send up "buddy" Redford in the first place, a wacky Mirian Hopkins playing the scary middle-aged hag she did so well. And there's John Barry's always atmospheric music score which adds dignity to it all.
But this film is also well-known for behind-the-camera squabbles between the director Arthur Penn, screenwriter Lillian Hellman and the money-guys regarding the script (among other things, Hellman allegedly wanted to make some social statement by making allusions to Texas oil corruption and JFK's still-recent assassination). What's left is a semi-soap about cultural mores in a rural Southern town [or Hollywood's mid-60s version of such] more notable ultimately for the cast, the mood and sense of "hovering" about the film, and a distinct feeling it wants to say something or go somewhere it never quite does.
Still worth a peak.
Movie Review: Horribly Superficial and Weak.
Summary: 2 Stars
Viewed: 3/08
Rate: 3
3/08: I spotted this little known DVD movie called The Chase in some five-dollar bargain bin, and I looked at the names of the cast: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Angie Dickinson, and Robert Duvall. Looking up the director of the film, it says Arthur Penn of Bonnie and Clyde and The Miracle Worker. Finally, peering further, Sam Spiegel produced The Chase. Now, I thought to myself that I must have scored a real bargain. So, I set out to watch the movie last night and began to fall asleep not very long after a half hour. By the time I finished the movie, I couldn't believe how boring and disconnected the film was. For all The Chase could offer, I finally pinpointed the major problem: too much star power. In other words, The Chase should have been Marlon Brando's film, and he was darned capable of carving a legendary performance out of his role. Instead, he is reduced as a tool, following a routine akin to what he did during On the Waterfront, but this time with no real sense of purpose or attachment. I know that the cast seems to be dazzling, but who are we kidding here? It's painfully obvious that Robert Redford is a pretty boy with acting ability resembling the depth of a shot glass. Jane Fonda has never been a good actress to start with, and she has been riding on the coattails of her famous father just like how Kiefer did with his dad. Before he would carve a niche for himself years later, Robert Duvall is far too young to make an impact on The Chase. I am not sure if I should be really disappointed with Arthur Penn, but considering the facts, The Chase was made in 1966, the year before Bonnie and Clyde would be made. Still, The Miracle Worker was made in 1962. Speaking of Bonnie and Clyde, Marlon Brando thought the fight scenes between himself and a gang of few residents were filmed at too high of camera speed. So, he instructed Arthur Penn to reduce the speed to make the fights look more artistically, therefore be better looking. That became a strong learning tool in forming a technique that would later be applied for the great scenes during Bonnie and Clyde. Then again, Marlon Brando was probably more pissed off in how his role was reduced and sorted out. In that case, he is right. The Chase failed to entertain me as it could have been cut to ninety minutes along with a reworking of the plot. All the film did was to make me to wait and wait for something happens. When it did, the climax wasn't surprising to me, and I actually predicted that Robert Redford's character would get killed. When he did, I immediately thought when the movie was made in, and The Chase is probably incredibly outdated today and now pointless. Even more laughable are the excellently choreographed fight scenes. Now, I haven't seen anything so fake since Rocky sequels. All in all, everybody wasted their time on The Chase, and unfortunately, I ended up paying the price.