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Summary: ReadPuzo
Review: The casting in this film was terrible. Anyone who read the book will agree. Besides, the costuming was terrible. And how about the catch phrase? "Before the Godfather..." That's not really true. First of all, Turi's parents were living in New York helping Don Corleone before he was even born. Second, Michael Corleone was in exhile in Sicily and was going to help bring Turi to America. Part of the cursed story took place DURING the Godfather book/film. Ah.... i dunno. it just wasn't great.
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Summary: Leave the movie, take the novel...
Review: The Sicilian is one of Mario Puzo's best novels. It's an engaging story with memorable characters that's hard to put down. The movie, on the other hand, does not do the book justice. I think it's awful. By the way, there are two versions of the video, and the "directors cut" is no better.
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Summary: a good novel ruined by a bad actor
Review: This movie is based on Mario Puzo's book of the same name: in other words, the source material here isn't that different from that of 'The Godfather'. It's a good book in the same way that 'The Godfather' is - exciting and rousing - but that isn't enough to make a good movie. Whereas Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando made what many consider to be the best movie of all time, Michael Cimino and Christopher Lambert made a real stinker here. Actually, the problem less with Cimino than it does with Lambert. His attempt to play a Sicilian is bad enough; when you compare him to his co-star John Turturro he comes across as positively horrible. The beautiful scenery and some good acting from other cast members still can't save this movie. Avoid it.
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Summary: DVD lies about format size. WAS filmed in Widescreen
Review: THIS REVIEW IS ON THE DVD, NOT ABOUT THE MOVIE ITSELF.The movie in my opinion was better than the critics gave it. I enjoyed it for a slow-paced mafia movie in the obscure Cimino style.THE DVD though, FOR THOSE WIDESCREEN LOVERS OUT THERE, STATES (on the back cover) that it "IS PRESENTED IN THE FORMAT IN WHICH THE FILM WAS SHOT OF 1:33:1. STANDARD "old fashion TV" FORMAT. I believe this is most deffintaly a lie.Why do I say this? Because, just a week ago it was on the High Definition Channel--INHD Channel, and they showed it in a TRUE ASPECT RATIO of WIDESCREEN 2:35:1, Cinnmascope. There is noway they could've shown the movie in that format if Ciminio had it filmed in standard format, AS STATED ON THE BACK COVER OF THE DVD.SO, THE DVD IS PRESENTED IN STANDARD FORMAT, while in reality IT WAS FILMED IN WIDESCREEN.SO, I give the DVD 2 stars just for decent picture quality & mediocre sound. The people who released this DVD version of the movie I believe lies when they state it was filmed in standard format when IT WAS FILMED IN WIDESCREEN.Maybe someday another company will release the orginal Widescreen version - THE WAY IT WAS SHOWN IN THEATRES.I was fortunate enough to tape it on the high def channel and get my copy of the movie in it's ORGINAL WIDESCREEN FORMAT.
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Summary: A
Review: Totally absent from this movie are things like
1. Acting
2. plot
3. Some sort of rational story line
4. half-way decent cinematography Puzo is rolling in his grave this was just awful. A waste of a perfectly good blockbuster rental. Heck the movie did have some great nude sceans, so if thats your thing yo might want to get this. As for myself i'll read the book(agian).
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Summary: Well here are my thoughts
Review: Totally absent from this movie are things like
1. Acting
2. plot
3. Some sort of rational story line
4. half-way decent cinematography Puzo is rolling in his grave this was just awful. A waste of a perfectly good blockbuster rental. Heck the movie did have some great nude sceans, so if thats your thing yo might want to get this. As for myself i'll read the book(agian).
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Summary: A
Review: Un Robin Hood de sicilia, aplicando su propia ley, no puedo siempre vencer ante el poder de la mafia, la traicion es su final.
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Summary: Sadly, no option for zero stars
Review: What a terrible movie and a waste of talent. Trying to be another Godfather flick, but falling way short. There is some nice cinematography and a musical score that starts out promising but ends up being grating. The worst and most insurmountable problem is, naturally, Christopher Lambert. He can't act, doesn't look or sound Italian (let alone Sicilian) and is too old for the part (Guliano is supposed to be very young -- everyone comments on this -- and is compared to Alexander the Great, while Lambert is clearly in his mid-thirties). A OK enough actor for action films, he is way out of his depth here. Also, the always excellent John Turturro makes him look awful feeble. What power-that-be in the casting department decided on Lambert as the lead and NOT Turturro -- who looks and is of Italian ancestry? There is some kind of interesting story here about the modern history of Sicily after WWII, and the struggle between the church, government, rich landowners, poor peasants and communists...but darned if I could make out what it was. It was buried under a barrage of odd accents -- some American, some "fake" Italian, some generic "European" -- and dialogue that stinks. I hung on to the dogged end of this long (uncut version) flick, but I was wasting my time. It didn't improve or get any clearer. A movie to be avoided.
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