Villa Rides
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Charles Bronson, Robert Mitchum, Yul Brynner Director: Buzz Kulik Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard Composer: Maurice Jarre Editor: David Bretherton DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 122 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Legend Films |
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Movie Reviews of Villa Rides
Movie Review: Villa Poorly Presented
Summary: 2 Stars
VILLA RIDES turns out to be something of a big disappointment! And even though Sam Peckinpah had a hand in the screenplay - along with Robert Towne - it still emerges as a leadenly written movie dryly directed by the undistinguished Buzz Kulik.
Firstly, Yul Brynner in the title role is wrong for the part! He is not
charismatic enough to play the great mexican revolutionary and comes across as being downright dull. His one note performance lacks the buoyancy a Gilbert Roland or an Anthony Quinn could have brought to the part. Brynner simply looks like a Russian aristocrat dressed up like a mexican bandit who is in the middle of the mexican revolution instead of the russian one.
Robert Mitchum - who has second billing - is totally wasted in the picture! His part as a biplane flyng ace lobbing home-made bombs from the air in the cause of the revolution is very poorly written and could have been played by any minor star. Mitch hasn't a decent line in the entire movie and brings to one's mind his other mexican revolution picture the far superior "Bandido" (1956) which unfortunately no one seems to have any interest in releasing on DVD at all.
Besides lacking any kind of style the movie also lacks the presence of a
major female star! There is starlet Grazia Buccella as the young mexican girl who gives Mitchum the glad eye but her casting is merely perfunctory. Someone like Claudia Cardinale or Jean Peters might have added a couple of badly needed notches to the faltering story line.
There are a couple of good action scenes in the movie but a couple of good action scenes does not a movie make and the less than perfect Panavision picture quality plus the over repetitive Maurice Jarre theme tune doesn't help matters.
As is Paramount's wont there are no extras - not even a trailer!
Yes, a disappointing movie and presentation that could have been and should have been a whole lot better!