Revenge

Basic pulp-novel passion and torment, swathed in Scott's patented visual goop, as if he were under the impression he was making "Tristan and Isolde". Show-stopping turn by James Gammon as a substance-abusing old cowpoke. Clock-stopping turn by Sally Kirkland as an over-the-hill rock-and-roller. And then some steady support from Miguel Ferrer, barely identifiable in the goop.

Kevin Costner isn't so bad here, but the movie itself is really bad. Talk about a confused, hindered, unexciting thriller that ultimately leads to a depressing outcome after all is said and done. Besides, our lead character barely gets his 'revenge,' and it takes over half the movie to even get anywhere. A major bore. If you're not asleep by the forty-minute mark, I commend you.

bad movie

55.500

Forgotten Tony Scott 'thriller' has no doubt languished in near obscurity largely due to Costner's fading stardom. The bad reviews are unwarranted: yes it has tonal problems, and no it isn't especially effective as a thriller, but Scott's film is a moody romance about damaged people trying to escape their emotionally unsatisfying lives and paying the price for it. Unfortunately, psychological depth is absent, but there are some strong scenes, and Quinn is solid as the crime boss.

55.500

AWFUL soundtrack.

You don't quite expect a movie that opens on fighter jets to be a love story an hour later, and a drug cartel thriller by the next. Each of them have their charms, and each works its way into the next in exciting ways. Stowe is, as always, astonishingly gorgeous, but is not helped by Costner's conceitedly bland performance. But it's got a hell of a supporting cast, and Scott tinges everything with a sooty, misty visual coat that densely glamorizes it all.

Brutal, shallow thriller that is too predictable to be enjoyable.

What was the point?

Fucking gorgeous to look at. Lush locations and sets, costumes are timeless and luxely put together, the humidity is palpable. The production design stuns with its meticulously realised, dreamy visioning of the erotic and thriller genre tropes. Its shallowly told which makes the revenge carried out seem overblown, and it's not all that smart or thrilling, but its a sensual, brash, indulgent product of early 90s genre. Bullshit ending. But Costner in dem jeans tho.

Gaab

Remarkably dull for a movie that had this much potential. Overlong and with way too much of Tony Scott's patented visual goop

Not bad.

Only advisable to wtach if you are a huge Costner-Fan...

Director's cut: Appallingly weak, ineffectual thriller seems so disinterested in its plotline and characters that it is easy to forget how unlikely (and indefensible) the lead character's notion and justification of "revenge" is. Costner and Stowe have all the sexual chemistry of a wet fart; Quinn at least injects some personal charisma into proceedings, though the final confrontation scene is a colossal (and baffling) letdown. Offensive and sleazy film-making on all fronts.

It takes more than an hour to actually start, and then you'll be so pre-occupied trying to justify Costner's violence and reaction to said event to even care. I was rooting for the 'shady Mexican businessman'. Like he didn't expect something like this to happen by sleeping with the guy's wife.

Intolerably slow for a film that pretends to be a thriller. I gave up this pile of crap about the same distance in as that other 90s Costner thriller No Way Out that also got bogged down in a romantic subplot at the expense of plot and action

Madeleine is gorgeous in the director's cut -- and that might be the only good thing here, in a Tony's film that looks like Ridley's, poorly written and really messy in its romance-turned-into-a-thriller tone.

[Directors Cut] Seeing directing/acting/producing credits I was honestly expecting cheesy blockbuster. What I got is a nice throwback at the late night TV thrillers back in the early 90's. Sleazy, violent and dark b-movie. Perhaps that's a bit of a guilt pleasure, but I enjoyed it more than Top Gun or Days of Thunder. Diversity points for Tony Scott.

If it wasn't such a simple formula revenge story, it would be confusing as heck.

Slow 90's style beginning but the meat of the story was good...UNTIL THE END!

Very little redemptive qualities, completely insane plot, boring action scenes, ridiculous denouement. Ham-fisted at best.

(DC)