Warlock
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Canada Movie Reviews of WarlockMovie Review: Fascinating
Fonda and Quinn have wonderful presence and charisma. Widmark's character has none. As he is the 3rd key factor in this story, this is too great a failure to hook me into caring for him. Not least, for this reason: although all 3 are killers, Widmarks mass-murderous past makes his new-found 'moral code' somewhat shakey. I enjoyed the movie for its ideas and complexity nevertheless, and for 1959 it may well have been worth 5 stars, but today we expect the script to be a bit tighter. I found far too many moments of Huh? What? Where did that come from? ... as the characters changed their behaviour and attitude too suddenly for me ... against the apparent flow of the tale. Perhaps something like a modern miniseries would be needed to give such an interesting story the space and the time to fulfill its rich character study potential. Fonda and Quinn make it definitely worth a watch, and the 'huh?' moments do make you think. |
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