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Summary: Banderas & Neri are the 2 STARS in this rating.
Review: Francesca Neri and Antonio Banderas are a great match in a lousy movie. Neri (new to me) is beautiful and charismatic and did ever notice how the always dependable Banderas can make the worst movie tolerable? Here again he does some excellent emoting. Just like one of the other reviewers, the first 25 minutes are quite entertaining, but then it really becomes a violent, disgusting bore. While I was happy that Neri as Anna blew her three rapists to smithereens, her shooting of the two policemen was totally beyond redemption. That's when the film went to hell.
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Summary: Interesting...but not for the reasons I expected
Review: I purchased this DVD because I liked Antonio Banderas in "The Mask of Zorro" and because I heard that his co-star, Francesca Neri, was the "Italian Michelle Pfiffer." As far as I could tell, they both are obviously very talented actors. However, the film story was terrible. It is a very graphic rape story with a very unsatisfying ending. I was glad I purchased the DVD though because Francesca Neri is truly an incredibly gorgeous actress - and she has one of the most gigantic Adam's apples I've ever seen on a woman!
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Summary: Interesting...but not for the reasons I expected
Review: I purchased this DVD because I liked Antonio Banderas in "The Mask of Zorro" and because I heard that his co-star, Francesca Neri, was the "Italian Michelle Pfiffer." As far as I could tell, they both are obviously very talented actors. However, the film story was terrible. It is a very graphic rape story with a very unsatisfying ending. I was glad I purchased the DVD though because Francesca Neri is truly an incredibly gorgeous actress - and she has one of the most gigantic Adam's apples I've ever seen on a woman!
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Summary: Interesting...but not for the reasons I expected
Review: Technical screw-ups with DVD aside, this film is OK. It certainly bears lesser artistic value than other films from Carlso Saura. But, it is not worse than some of the rubbish that come outs. It is just, probably, one of those cases, when an artist needed money and so on...The story is somewhat weak and superficial. I was drawn into it for the first 20-25 minutes. I expected something really interesting to happen. It did not... It is a story of a young journalist, Banderas, who needs to cover a story [for reasons, I honestly can not remember] about the circus, which came to town. Naturally, he falls in love with the beautiful horse-riding circus girl. From that point on, it gest worse... It turns out that the girl is half-Russian, half-Italian, half-God-knows what else. She is very bright and intelligent, inspite of her being a circus artist [feel the social message here]: she seems to be speaking all the languages she knows at once. They end up having a little bit of sex [at least on screen], then, she is raped, and then, what?... oh, yeah, she gets revenge and he gets... nothing. And you are left in an OUTRAGE: Could the plot be any more lame than this? Hardly...
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Summary: Film worth watching, for Carlos Saura's sake...
Review: Technical screw-ups with DVD aside, this film is OK. It certainly bears lesser artistic value than other films from Carlso Saura. But, it is not worse than some of the rubbish that come outs. It is just, probably, one of those cases, when an artist needed money and so on... The story is somewhat weak and superficial. I was drawn into it for the first 20-25 minutes. I expected something really interesting to happen. It did not... It is a story of a young journalist, Banderas, who needs to cover a story [for reasons, I honestly can not remember] about the circus, which came to town. Naturally, he falls in love with the beautiful horse-riding circus girl. From that point on, it gest worse... It turns out that the girl is half-Russian, half-Italian, half-God-knows what else. She is very bright and intelligent, inspite of her being a circus artist [feel the social message here]: she seems to be speaking all the languages she knows at once. They end up having a little bit of sex [at least on screen], then, she is raped, and then, what?... oh, yeah, she gets revenge and he gets... nothing. And you are left in an OUTRAGE: Could the plot be any more lame than this? Hardly...
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Summary: Save your Money
Review: The best description of this lackluster flick is "HO HuM" Banderas walks around like a lovesick puppy and goes off to Barcelona while his girlfriend gets raped by three thugs and then goes on a shooting spree all over Spain after having kill the three. Thin plot, bad acting and not great English dubbing. I should have been paid for watching it. At least I did get a good nights sleep.
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Summary: Good movie, but a discredit to the DVD medium
Review: The movie itself is quite good, but what they don't tell you is that the original Spanish dialogue has been eliminated in favor of an unforgivable English dubbing. What's more is that there are no alternate soundtracks available on this DVD, and no subtitles to choose from. In other words, it's a low budget insult to the DVD medium where all these things are not just possible, but expected. I would love to see this movie in its original language before it was butchered, because there's some good film-making going on here.
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Summary: Outrage with Banderas
Review: This movie is horrible and brutal with no interesting hooks and really bad dubbing. Antonio Banderas can not even save this movie with all his talent.
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