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Summary: the BEST camerawork !
Review: This is the only movie , which I had to watch 7 times in 2 days . In Russia . Few weeks before I had been send to Afghanistan . As professional photographer , published writer ... one of the best camera work , espesialy first few minutes of the movie .
Here is a Vietnam Vet ... He still running ... He has no idea , what he is running from ... He get mixed up in a moovie making bisness , just by exident . And here is the movie ... he still running ... but now it is a part of the script . At same time we have a love story , run away story ... too many stories . I love this movie for exellent acting ang GREAT camerawork !
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Summary: Needs to be Re-discovered
Review: This is without a doubt one of the most inventive films to deal with the fine line between reality and illusionism. Storyline is filled with unexpected twists and turns. Peter O'Toole's greatest performance (next to Lawrence of Arabia). One of the most overlooked films of the past twenty years. Mesmerizing.
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Summary: BRAINS, BRAWN, BOFFO
Review: This maniacally funny, whiplash-paced action movie offers a much-needed lesson to contemporary film studios: intelligence and action are not mutually exclusive high concepts. The story of a paranoid Vietnam Vet who stumbles onto the set of a WWI movie while fleeing the police, The Stunt Man manages to work compelling ideas about identity, control, and chaos versus order into a whiz-bang story packed with laughs, raunchy innuendo and kangaroo cookies.
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Summary: It's the Hotel!
Review: This movie should be in everyone's library because, if I remember correctly, it shows the Hotel Coronado better that "Some Like It Hot" and in color. I'm suprised that none of the other reviewers mentioned the location which, to me, makes the whole movie wonderful. Great acting also, especially for O'Toole and Railsback fans. Are there many Railsback fans? Where did he go?
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Summary: A poor investment
Review: This review is based partially on ignorance as, with 45 minutes remaining, I stopped watching this film. But, through these eyes, there was nothing that could have redeemed this film.Peter O'Toole was the only bright spot in this film and I felt embarrassed for him - a Shakespearian heavyweight surrounded by a cast fit for nothing better than daytime soap operas. (Although I have enjoyed Alex Rocco as 'Roger Myers Jr.' in the Simpsons.) And there's no defending Steve Railsback's performance; while many saw his Cameron struggling with the director's mania, all I could see was a hack struggling to convey a range of emotions far beyond him. (Were he truly worth his salt, would his post-Stunt Man filmography include such classics as 'Armed and Dangerous', 'Alligator II: The Mutation', 'Nukie' and 'Barb Wire'?) In short, to have sat through the last 45 minutes, any 'payoff' would have been like given a dime back from my dollar.
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Summary: Shame to sink that Deusenburg.
Review: This was a very good movie with Peter O'Toole, Barbara Hershey, Steven Railsback et. al. I particularly disliked seeing that Deusenburg go off the bridge and into the water. Oh well it had to be only a replica. Peter O'Toole flying around in his helicopter added a touch of extra action and director's importance to this strange movie. Well worth having new on VHS/DVD this movie may soon go out of print. Soon to be "OOP" or "discontinued" get this one while you can at AMAZON.COM...
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Summary: One of the top cult movies from the eighties!
Review: Through this clever , ingenious script , the brilliant film maker Richard Rush (nominated as best director in 1980) made a emblematic and glorious film for those people who wante to taste something different . Built as a smart chines puzzle , a man suddenly in a location film and the delicate boundaries between the reality and the fiction are broken . Under this perspective the viewer is challenged moment by moment and obilgated to establish who is who and what is what . Think that you are in a mirror hall (Lady of Shangai's ending sequence) and try to find the object and not confuse with its image .
Link this premise with another two film made in the sixties (Blow up of Antonioni)and Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel) and more recently Parole des enfants (1995) Open you eyes (Alejandro Amenábar 1997) or The rules of engagement (William Friedkin 2000) and you'll be rewarded by that intelligent plot , loaded with thrills, chills, suspense , riddles and surprises , plus an outstanding cast: Peter O'Toole (nominated as best actor in 1980 for this performance) and Hershey .
I'm absolutely convinced since the moment you watch this film , it will become one of your timeless and favorites films.
The doubt for acquire this film never must prevail in your mind even for a second.
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Summary: An excellent lost sleeper hit.
Review: When a fugitive on the run turns actor (Steve Railsback) ends up in a movie set control by a Christ-Like Hollywood Director (Oscar-Winner:Peter O'Toole), who become the man's mentor. Which the hollywood director sheltered the fugitive from a sherrif (Alex Rocco). While the fugitive starts to fall in love with a famous attractive actress (Barbara Hershey). Directed by Richard Rush (Color of Night, Psych-Out) made a standout, outragerous, dark comedy. Which is unique and it's offers something different for everyone. Winning Performances by Railsback, O'Toole and Hershey. DVD's has an good anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an fine Dolby Digital 5.1 Expanded Surround Sound. DVD Extras has an induction by the Director, Trailers, Two Deleted Scenes and more. This film recieve three Oscar nominations, which are:Best Actor-O'Toole, Best Adapted Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus and Director:Rush, and Best Director. This is a marvelous and unique exercise in meta-cinematic manipulation. This is a great film, which makes Reality and Make-Believe blur. Grade:A.
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Summary: Mesmerizing...
Review: When this movie first came out 20+ years ago, I was mesmerized - couldn't see it too many times! I remember catching it on probably HBO (what else was there then?) and just watching over and over. This is probably where my Peter O'Toole fascination began. Wasn't my usual kind of movie, but for some reason it really hooked me. When I was in San Diego 3 years ago, it was one of the reasons I went to the Hotel Coronado and studied the roof lines! Although I haven't seen the movie in years, and have only thought of it sporadically, it is definitely one of my all-time favorites. Absolutely going to add it to my library.
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