thelastonehere

the grunting labored breaths of Sir Anthony Hopkins gets painful to watch at times, with his 50 foot mug on the screen so large and laborious that you can feel the panic striking that you yourself have become an old Kiwi determined to drive an old motorcycle as fast and my the skin of your seat (or leg flesh) that you possibly can. Lifting you head up to see the action at 200 mph. This sets up for some major disaster and you can wait and wait for it, but this is based on real life, so the odds are changed, there are no plot predictors just some action and Hopkin's 50 foot mug as large as any wise old actor can be portrayed. A real theatresque piece by this knight. Nothing in the way of real action, just a heart warmer story that keeps them coming from L.A. to Utah back to New Zeland.

a great film for its time held together by acting alone. The trials of the river boat in Africa much different from "The Heart of Darkness" The tough fix-it Canadian Bogart matched up with missionary Hepburn proves to be a hot dynamic. You are sucked into the small details of character and the charming boat itself. Another war film demonizing the Germans circa World War one.

I like to imagine this film shot in Iceland, near the coast with a lot of wind, very strange to think of the scenes with the mosquitoes then, the heat has subsided and the crocodiles would be and the bottom of the lakes smoking cigarettes or something.

This one went down like another sheet of broken glass. Much like 'Taxi Driver' with dream sequences interspersed with the reality of events. Notable for Sandra Burnhart's first 5 minutes. She gets the frantic energy off to a running start. In fact the first 5 minutes sum up the film's plot. Sinister and diabolical this is no comedy. De Niro heads up his usual role as some form of delusional spirited protagonist. I was surprised to see that this film was shot after 'Raging Bull' and yet follows with many of the elements of 'Taxi Driver' except not as cool (minus blood and guns). A real cheap look at different forms of deranged thinking. No real depth just story, albeit one that hits your gut and heaps you at the screen. Two thumbs up.