The Lost City
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Movie Reviews of The Lost City
Movie Review: The Lost City
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent cast, direction, but above all, the accuracy of the story is impressive. The script is very well formulated. Every Cuban-American who has seen this movie has been impacted by the reality depicted, by this novel,of the Cuban tragedy.
I highly recomend this movie to those interested on a two hours history of the fall of the Batista's regime and the rise to power of Fidel Castro, BUT, from side of the Cuban citizens who lived through it and suffered it.
Andy Garcia is excellent as the typical Cuban who leaveas his homeland to exile to freedom in the United States. Every detail of the movie is accurate. If something seems silly to you and fantasy, it is not, it is reality of how it was.
Movie Review: The Lost City
Summary: 5 Stars
I never saw this film in the theaters. I did not know this gem existed until I picked it off the shelf in my friendly neighborhood video rental store. What a pleasant surprise! A movie depicting the Havana that was? A movie that neither glorifies Castro's revolution nor idolizes the Che? Instead, through the story and its characters, it tells what REALLY happened in Havana 50 years ago.
Folks, if you want a glimpse of what really happened in Cuba. If you want to know why the middle class left, and why the island paradise turned into a Third World Country, buy this movie. Watch it! If anything... it will give you a fresh perspective from a different point of view.
Movie Review: Heartbreaking but excellent movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so glad that I watched this movie - it is a powerful and moving story. The film did not get the credit that it so richly deserved. The cinematography was stellar. Andy Garcia did a fantastic job of directing. Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman were slightly annoying and threw the balance of the movie off somewhat. Probably the reason that the film was not praised in Hollywood and the critic world, is because it was NOT pro-Castro. It was more of a family saga and love story than a detailed account of the Battista, Che Guerrera, and Castro atrocities, so I think that needs to be taken into account when viewing it. Definitely a film to watch!Movie Review: A superb film
Summary: 5 Stars
Andy Garcia, son of Cuban immigrants, traces the darkest moments experienced by a bourgeois family trapped by the Revolution. Andy Garcia gives a just farewell to Guevara myth that appears as in itself, minister of justice exception (the courts of exception) responsible for serial murders, crimes (finally! How long I expected for a movie Very dangerous and pale Guevara.
The passions. Trouble when bribing a Batista, gangrene American Mafia (though described in "Havana" the thriller by Stephen Hunter) disputed the bloody communism.
Andy Garcia issues a superb history. Bravo.
Movie Review: Important and Chilling
Summary: 5 Stars
Important film to instruct a new generation about the truth behind the revolution in Cuba. The new push to romanticize Che and Fidel makes this a timely message. Thank you, Andy Garcia, for your commitment to making the story known to a popular audience. The music is great, the actress is beautiful, the filmmaking excellent, but the real message for me was the chilling reminder that freedom is not free, and we in the U.S. are the beneficiaries of a very unique legacy only very rarely emulated. See this plus Andy's prior film, "For Love or Country" re: the defection of Arturo Sandoval.