Revenge

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Summary: What's Not to Love?
Review: I was recently in a staff meeting where we had to share our all-time favorite movie. I am a movie-aholic and this is among my top five. Why? Not because most people drool over Kevin Costner (he doesn't do much for me, actually). It's because it is the only movie I've seen 30 or more times that can STILL make me cry as hard as I did the first time I saw it. Anthony Quinn is a film god and always will be, 'nuff said. As for Madeline Stowe, I just wish she would make more movies for she is truly an underrated (and undercast) gem. I don't buy into what critics and some other reviewers here apparently dislike. It is what it is ... violence and spousal abuse notwithstanding ... that's just part of the movie and I suppose, part of that culture. But as for a TRUE love story with a final scene that will make you boo hoo out loud, this one cannot be beat! Grab the Kleenex ...

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Summary: Savaged By Critics, But Still Good!
Review: I've never been able to understand the beef critics had with this movie. Yes, it's violent. Seeing Madeleine Stowe's character turned into a heroin-addicted prostitute is hard to watch. But does this make it a bad movie? Or is it bad because Costner's character seeks revenge, and offs some bad guys? I suspect that Stowe's character's fate has most to do with why this movie was so broadly panned. Much of this movie is brutal. Is this worse, though, than showing violence that doesn't seem to hurt? Gunfights in which the heroes get shot and just shake it off? I don't think so. The violence in this movie is brutal because the story demands it.

There isn't more to say, probably, than has already been said, but I found the narrative well-paced, the characters believeable, and the story compelling. The final confrontation was wholly plausible, and the right denouement for the film: both redemptive and logical given what we know about the characters.

This is a sadly underrated movie, one well-worth seeing.

Rating:
Summary: Slick but vacuuous
Review: Like most of Tony Scott's output, this is extremely well made but empty-headed. That said, it's still just about the last best thing Kevin Coster's done (what happened to him, anyway? He used to be so promising...). Though, to be fair, none of the actors are very well served by this piece of Macho Deathwish claptrap and the source material (a novella by Hemingway-wannabe Jim Harrison from his collection "Legends of the Fall") isn't much better.

The best part of the movie is Jeffrey Kimball's beautiful cinematography. Too bad it's in the service of such a lame-brain story.

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Summary: True love...irresistable...inescapable...
Review: No mercy, against all odds and Romeo and Juliet all rolled into one action packed show. Jay Cochran (Kevin Costner)former pilot is invited to Mexico to visit his "friend" Tiburan Mendez(Anthony Quin). He saved Tiburan's life and Tibby feels indepted to him. Jay unintentionally falls in love with Tibby's wife Mireya (Madeleine Stowe). She loves Jay and decides to leave with him. Tiburan is a worldly man indulging in wild mistresses and parties. He's like the mexican mafia. Tibby over hears her plans to go away for the weekend and of her love for Jay. She had never been with anyone but Tiburan and now Jay. So I feel when they were caught together Tiburan's punishment to her is heartless and discusting. And if anyone is punished for horrid behavior it would be him. No one deserves what he did to her. She was merely an ornament to him. And how could she ask him for a divorce...he wouldn't have let her go. These kind of movies keep finding me. The sad dramatic endings...Costners performance in the end was so real I cried...Kevin and Madeleine were a believable couple. They were fabulous together. Beautiful beaches and country sides. And the rollercoaster ride in the sky in the beginning was great. Masterfully acted and beautifully photographed. Great movie...but saaad.

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Summary: Great movie, really, but...
Review: Ok, the first time I saw this film was in the 93 or something like that and I thought it was an ok movie but nothing else... then in the 2000 I was in my home and remembered of that movie I saw one day, so I started to look into the tapes collection in my home 'til I found it, played it and actually saw the film carefully. All I can say is that Anthony Quinn played on of the most emotional roles of his career on this one; al the same time, Mrs. Stowe and Kevin Costner gives us on this movie two excellents pieces of acting, 'cause the deep and the honestly on the characters it's the best, it seems like they were actually in love and tryind desperately to find each other.
The only bad thing it's that some scenes are too much slow, it's like the movie begin actually when Tibey (Quinn's character) do his revenge against Costner and Stowe. But, the bottom line is that this movie it's really worth seeing, and don't deserves all the BS that critics told about it.
Give the movie a chance, you'll find satisfied with it at the end.

Rating:
Summary: Fairly solid action/revenge film
Review: Revenge is exactly what it's title implies, and like the act the film is named after, it certainly isn't pretty. Kevin Costner plays a US Navy pilot who is the friend of an extremely wealthy Mexican millionaire (Anthony Quinn). While staying at Quinn's, Costner ends up having an affair with Quinn's wife (Madeline Stowe) and soon (naturally) Quinn finds out and seeks retribution by having Costner beaten and left for dead, and Stowe tortured and made into a junkie prostitute. Sounds like a movie for the whole family eh? Director Tony Scott (The Hunger, Top Gun) shows us all the gritty detail that he is known for, and like I said earlier, Revenge is not a pretty film. It is very violent (almost over the top like Scott's next film True Romance) and sometimes hard to watch, but besides all that Revenge is a fairly solid action film with a standout performance from the late Anthony Quinn. All in all, action fans or fans of Kevin Costner (hello? anybody?) should give this a look.

Rating:
Summary: Fairly solid action/revenge film
Review: Revenge is exactly what it's title implies, and like the act the film is named after, it certainly isn't pretty. Kevin Costner plays a US Navy pilot who is the friend of an extremely wealthy Mexican millionaire (Anthony Quinn). While staying at Quinn's, Costner ends up having an affair with Quinn's wife (Madeline Stowe) and soon (naturally) Quinn finds out and seeks retribution by having Costner beaten and left for dead, and Stowe tortured and made into a junkie prostitute. Sounds like a movie for the whole family eh? Director Tony Scott (The Hunger, Top Gun) shows us all the gritty detail that he is known for, and like I said earlier, Revenge is not a pretty film. It is very violent (almost over the top like Scott's next film True Romance) and sometimes hard to watch, but besides all that Revenge is a fairly solid action film with a standout performance from the late Anthony Quinn. All in all, action fans or fans of Kevin Costner (hello? anybody?) should give this a look.

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Summary: Noctem's review plagiarizes Roger Ebert
Review: The "spotlight review" of the DVD of the movie "Revenge" by reviewer "Noctem" makes liberal use of professional critic Roger Ebert's review of the same film, going so far as to co-opt an entire paragraph unchanged, as follows:

Ebert's review can be viewed at the Chicago Sun-Times website.

By "Noctem" (paragraph 1)
Anthony Quinn is a powerful, brutal millionaire who rules his own private empire. He's surrounded by henchmen, but he lowers his guard to allow a friend into his inner circle - a former Navy pilot (Kevin Costner) who once saved his life on a hunting trip. Costner knows that Quinn has an unsavory reputation, but he doesn't plan to get involved in Quinn's business. He's only on vacation. That's before he sees Quinn's young wife, played by the *beautiful* Madeleine Stowe. Costner and Stowe fall in love at first sight, while Costner makes himself at home in Quinn's sprawling hacienda and goes on a hunting trip with him

By Roger Ebert (paragraph 3-4)

"Revenge" is set mostly in today's Mexico, where Anthony Quinn is a powerful, brutal millionaire who rules his own private empire. He's surrounded by killers and henchmen, but he lowers his guard to allow a friend into his inner circle - a former Navy pilot (Kevin Costner) who once saved his life on a hunting trip. Costner knows that Quinn has an unsavory reputation, but he doesn't plan to get involved in Quinn's business. He's only on vacation."

That's before he sees Quinn's young wife, played by the beautiful Madeleine Stowe, first seen in a voyeuristic camera shot that starts at her ankles and climbs hand over hand up every wrinkle of her dress. Costner and Stowe fall in love at first sight, while Costner makes himself at home in Quinn's sprawling hacienda and goes on a hunting trip with him."

How monumentally lame.

Rating:
Summary: Boring and unbelievable
Review: The acting is fine, but the story has all the excitement of paint drying. Nothing in the plot makes much sense. It has all the intelligence of a mindless action flick, but they forgot to include any action.

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Summary: Not for politically correct wimps
Review: The reason (and I dare anyone to dispute me on this) that this movie did not receive more fanfare is because politically correct WIMPS refused to give it the attention it deserves. Due to the brutal way in which Quinn's character treats his wife upon learning of her infidelity, the politically correct critics and moviegoers alike simply did not want to be perceived, in their idiotic minds, as being pro-violence towards women. "If we say this is a good movie, then we would be saying that violence towards women must be good too, right?"

Lunacy.

But this IS a good movie and a good DVD: Great sound, excellent quality picture, well acted, interesting characters and great locations.