MOVIE DETAILS
Rating: 5.3 out of 10
Director: Hugh Hudson
Writer: Robert Dillon
Star: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski
Genres: Adventure/Drama/History/War
Release Date: December 25, 1985 (United States)
Revolution
The citizens are very disgusting. They are moving around the streets wearing funny hats, drinking, laughing, dancing, toppling statues and insulting rich people in carriages.
During the opening scene of Hugh Hudson’s new film “Revolution,” a friend turned to ask in some bewilderment, “What ‘revolution’ is this?” It was a good enough question. Some of the headgear and the decidedly heedless behavior of the citizens suggested Paris in 1789. Yet from the spectacular nature of the terrain seen in the battle that immediately followed it could have been a Norwegian revolution. Still later, there’s a coastline that resembles Big Sur’s. Was there ever a Big Sur Revolution?
Actually, ”Revolution” is about the American War of Independence. It’s also a mess, but one so giddily wrongheaded that at times it makes sense for all the wrong reasons too. Characters who have met briefly early in the film later stage hugely emotional, tearful reconciliations. In seven or so years covered by story one little boy grows up to look exactly like an actor who played his best friend when he was 14.
Place names New York City, Brooklyn, Valley Forge, Philadelphia and Yorktown – are dropped with frequency but very few dates. ”Revolution,” which opens today at National and other theaters hereabouts, plays with all of coherence of movie hurriedly cut from four hours to approximately two . It’s England’s answer to ”Heavens Gate.”
It is so bad that one suspects there must be good story behind it , probably none readily apparent if you haven’t read Robert Dillon/Rudi Davies screenplay (though I understand better now why Pete Postlethwaite delivers his lines as if he were channeling Arthur Miller) or surveyed Mr. Hudsons previous work. But what? After all , it isn’t easy goof scale especially not for director Oscar winning Chariots of Fire, even more interesting and complex Greystoke: Legend Tarzan , Lord Apes. The fault does not lie in England nor also rests entirely upon its being filmed there by British subjects though those are two factors which could certainly have contributed to this outcome . But no, senility is like that universal in effect.
The script was written by Robert Dillon (”United Kingdom” and ”Jungle Book”) while the main character was played by Al Pacino who looks a lot like an 18th-century Rambo and talks somewhat similar to 20th-century David Mamet. He acts as a widowed farmer-trapper named Tom Dobb, who comes down to New York City from Adirondacks around 1775 and gets involved reluctantly in fight for freedom during these times.
The movie shows the Revolution through the eyes of an average man but fails to mention what causes all this disorderly behavior. Nobody says anything about Stamp Act, Townshend Act or even Boston Tea Party throughout the whole film. Looking at chaos Tom Dobb finds when he arrives in Manhattan you might think people were just too drunk at a wrong time.
Anyway, Tom joins army because of his 14-year-old son, Ned (Sid Owen), who volunteered . They together participate in Battles of Brooklyn Heights and Manhattan, pay visit to Valley Forge, finally coming to rest at Yorktown where according to Mr. Hudson it is staged less logically than any other part of movie written by Mr Dillon
Donald Sutherland often appears as an actor. He portrayed a cruel British sergeant major who enjoyed whipping the bare feet of poor little drummer boys. Nastassja Kinski acted as a supposedly headstrong society girl who joined the rebels’ cause much to the consternation of her loyalist parents, and briefly seen as Miss Kinski’s mother is Joan Plowright. They are all pretty terrible, including the Indians who play the Indians.
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To such little effect has Mr. Pacino never been more intense. It is like watching someone walk around in a chicken costume. All the time he appears to be acting – performing – seemingly desperate for our attention, in which fruitless pursuit he is indulged by the director.
At one point Mr. Hudson allows the star to go on at embarrassing length in a monologue that recaps not only his marriage and death of three children, but also his memories of seeing his parents’ heads – I think I have this right – stuck up on pikes on outside gates or maybe Edinburgh.
Though most of narrative seems to have been written in shorthand – ellipses are its dominant mode – Mr. Hudson occasionally allows things stop for this sort set piece, which only calls attention everything else left unexplained Even photography is terrible; whether we’re witnessing civil disturbances New York City recorded by jiggly hand-held camera or misty landscapes photographed style might be called Contemporary Hudson River School.
”Revolution,” rated PG (”Parental Guidance Suggested”), contains some scenes violence that could disturb small child manages stay awake throughout The Cast REVOLUTION directed Hugh Hudson; written Robert Dillon; director photography Bernard Lutic; editor Stuart Baird; music John Corigliano; produced Irwin Winkler; released Warner Brothers. Running time: 124 minutes. At Loews New York Twin, Second Avenue at 66th Street, and RKO National Twin, Broadway at 44th Street. This film is rated PG. Tom DobbAl Pacino Sergeant Major PeasyDonald Sutherland Daisy McConnahayNastassja Kinski Mrs. McConnahayJoan Plowright Mr. McConnahayDave King Sergeant JonesSteven Berkoff CortyJohn Wells Liberty WomanAnnie Lennox Ned DobbDexter Fletcher Young NedSid Owen
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