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Revolution

1985, Movie, PG, 125 mins

Revolution: Review

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A beautifully photographed but emotionally uninvolving story of the American Revolution, REVOLUTION, instead of concentrating on the conflict's major players, follows the lives of a handful of everyday people. Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) is a Scottish immigrant (and as much of a caricature as Pacino's Cuban refugee in SCARFACE) driven to fight when his son is captured and tortured by Sgt. Maj. Peasy (Donald Sutherland), a sadistic British officer. Where there is war and suffering in movies, there also is romance; here it comes in the form of Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), a patrician who turns her back on Mom and Dad to take up with the rebels. Naturally, Tom and Daisy are separated, only to be happily reunited after the war. Hugh Hudson had previously proven himself a rather capable director with CHARIOTS OF FIRE and GREYSTOKE, but the thoughtfulness and subtlety of those previous pictures is reduced to lifelessness with this one. The film makes a noble attempt to present history in a realistic, nonheroic light, but Hudson is done in by a dull script and some ludicrous (curiously unrealistic) casting (Pacino as a Scot, Sutherland as a Brit, and Kinski as an American). It is no surprise that REVOLUTION died a quick death at the box office--filmgoers want their history bigger than life and rejected Hudson's attempt to put it all in realistic perspective. leave a comment
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