Title: a waste of time
Product review: who wouldn't want to check out a historical epic directed by Bertolucci (whose "Last Tango in Paris" and "Conformist" are terriffic and thought-provoking), and starring Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, De Niro, Depardieu, etc.? Don't waste your time. This film has all the earmarks of a "genius" director's overinflated vision, a grand statement, and as such is totally contrived and UNreal, from the behavior of the actors, which is ludicrously like a grade-B horror movie, to the script, the editing, and the story itself. We are whacked over the head with many socialist cliches about the wonderfulness of peasants and the decadent cruelty of the ruling classes, and the romantic drama is boring, boring, boring. Even the music by Morricone was used awfully! I was laughing out loud. A mess. What a disappointment! The ending is the epitome of ridiculousness. Sorry.
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