The Passenger
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Movie Reviews of The Passenger
Movie Review: Clumsy plot, beautiful images
Summary: 4 Stars
Other reviewers here have pointed out the essential ups and downs of this film. Like "Blow Up," this is another metaphysical thriller that uses the skeleton expectations of the action/adventure genre but slows down the tempo to focus on identity and alienation. The plot is improbable. How could the gunrunners not recognize that Jack Nicholson is not the gentleman they were expecting?
But the storyline is not the reason to watch this film. The way Antonioni films the world is a feast for the eyes. The North African landscape is especially stunning -- the desert, villages, and people. The film begins there and ends in a similarly dry and striking landscape, this time in southern Spain. At this final resting point Jack Nicholson delivers a monologue about how hopeless and dusty the world is. But it seems ineffective and slightly ridiculous after so many beautiful images.
Movie Review: Good Film
Summary: 4 Stars
The great thing about this movie is the final shot. I won't give anything away but the shot is breathtaking. Nicholson's performance is very subdued, very similar to other performances of his back in the 70's. The film does have some flaws, but overall it's a very good movie. It's not quite as good as Antonioni's 'Blow Up' but it's definately worth a viewing.Movie Review: WE ARE BUT PASSENGERS TO OUR STORIES NO MATTER WHERE WE RUN
Summary: 3 Stars
Following her remarkable performance in Bertolucci's torrid, emotional film, Maria Schneider signed on to co-star with Jack Nicholson in Michelangelo Antonioni's existential drama about a burned-out London reporter who, while working in Africa, takes on the identity of a dead man and attempts to live his life.
Nicholson is journalist David Locke and Schneider is the beautiful young woman he falls for under his newly assumed persona. The movie's not really a thriller or a mystery, but rather an excuse for Antonioni to explore his favorite themes of identity and the difficulty of meaningful engagement with others and with the meaning of life itself.
Mood and atmosphere dominate in wonderfully composed images and set pieces. A charismatic, petulant, luminous Schneider again holds the eye of the viewer in every scene in which she appears.
THE PASSENGER sealed Schneider's international fame. Not long afterwards, she abandoned a film set and checked into a mental hospital in Rome (1975). In 2007, she recalled: "[the glare of the spotlight] made me go mad. I got into drugs - pot and then cocaine, LSD and heroine - it was like an escape from reality. I took pills and tried to commit suicide, but I survived because God decided it wasn't time for me to go."
Maria Schneider worked steadily and acted in over 50 movies as a featured player or star. Some of her more obscure but interesting films are: THE KEY (2007), THE REPENTANT (2002), JANE EYRE (1996), THE CONVICTION (1991), THE PRINCESS AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER (1984), LOOKING FOR JESUS (1982), MAMA DRACULA (1980), MEMOIRS OF A FRENCH WHORE (1979).
On February 3, 2011, Marie Christine Gélin, aka Maria Schneider, died in Paris after a long battle with cancer. She was 58. RIP.
Movie Review: Painfully Slow!
Summary: 2 Stars
When Maria Schneider died last month, I read about her and discoverd she had made a movie with one of favorite actors, Jack Nicholson, that I had never seen. So I watched the previews on the internet and it looked great. A man is bored with his life, finds a man dead that looks like him, so takes on his identity to have a better life, unfortunately this causes problems. The premise and the previews are great. The movie is SLOW, SLOW, SLOW. The acting of Nicholson and Schneider is nothing special and not much happens. Three of us watched the movie and two of us fell asleep. I'm giving it two stars because it was filmed nicely and maybe there is a chance I missed something fabulous while I was asleep. Watch the preview that's enough!Movie Review: Least of my fav. Jack films
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is unsure of exactly where it wants Jack to go or how he should get there. After fumbling around for awhile it finally finds its way to an ending in which even the cast seems relieved that it's finally over. If it weren't for Jack no one would've ever heard of it.