Wow, just wow. There is something about America that finds it impossible to make a decent film about the American Revolution.
The Walt Disney Adapt5ation of "Johnny Tremain" stank. "The Patriot" took a complex thing and told America that we only defeated the British because Mel Gibson wanted revenge and "Revolution" well, it SHOULD have been good.
OK, "1776" was good, but that was a musical.
It has a good cast. It should have been good.
OK, maybe Pacino looks a little too Italian to play the part. The immigrant wave of Italians didn't hit until almost a century later. But it's Hollywood, so who cares.
What matters is that the movie is a but too dark and foggy. It may have been done for style, but it makes everything look like they were trying to hide something. Sometimes a dark movie can be pulled off well, but that is rare. Here it makes everything look like they are attempting to hide how fake everything looks and as a result it makes it all look fake.
And then the plot, they were maybe going for honesty, for realism, but it turns the entire film into an Oliver Stone LSD trip nightmare American Revolution.
The realism they are striving for is better shown in "1776" or even "John Adams" than it is in "Revolution." They over did the evil here and made people look like they are cartoon villains.
I've seen videos of Hitler patting a dog before...villains can have a human side. They aren't all bad all the time. "Revolution" forgets this and as a result it parodies itself.
The result is a total made-for-TV feel.
Avoi8d it, even if you are a Pacino fan. It is destined to go down in the history books as Al's "Genghis Khan."
The Walt Disney Adapt5ation of "Johnny Tremain" stank. "The Patriot" took a complex thing and told America that we only defeated the British because Mel Gibson wanted revenge and "Revolution" well, it SHOULD have been good.
OK, "1776" was good, but that was a musical.
It has a good cast. It should have been good.
OK, maybe Pacino looks a little too Italian to play the part. The immigrant wave of Italians didn't hit until almost a century later. But it's Hollywood, so who cares.
What matters is that the movie is a but too dark and foggy. It may have been done for style, but it makes everything look like they were trying to hide something. Sometimes a dark movie can be pulled off well, but that is rare. Here it makes everything look like they are attempting to hide how fake everything looks and as a result it makes it all look fake.
And then the plot, they were maybe going for honesty, for realism, but it turns the entire film into an Oliver Stone LSD trip nightmare American Revolution.
The realism they are striving for is better shown in "1776" or even "John Adams" than it is in "Revolution." They over did the evil here and made people look like they are cartoon villains.
I've seen videos of Hitler patting a dog before...villains can have a human side. They aren't all bad all the time. "Revolution" forgets this and as a result it parodies itself.
The result is a total made-for-TV feel.
Avoi8d it, even if you are a Pacino fan. It is destined to go down in the history books as Al's "Genghis Khan."