The Sicilian

The script makes no sense at all. You have a story that takes place in a turbulent violence-filled mob-ruled Sicily, but it's stylistically closer to Gone with the Wind if anything. It's like a pre-teen girl made a movie about a mafiosi as a school project, but had her rich father's pay for a professional editor to touch it up. This shouldn't be listed on imdb.

Probably the worst adaptation of a Mario Puzo novel. The ending is given away in the first minutes of the movie. Christopherr Lambert is another one of those B movie actors that should clue you in that the movie is going to be sub-par (Highlander excluded). I actually saw this movie in the theater when it came out, with my Mom and Dad. My Mom fell asleap! Neither my Dad or I could make heads or tails of it. Recent rewatching did not improve my opinion.

Bad in the worst way, just mundane and frustrating - the script is both totally forgettable and almost nonsensical. How the hell did Christopher Lambert even get close to the career he's had?

(Director's cut): Cimino's creative decline really began here with this misguided Puzo adaptation. His cut is longer and more coherent than the butchered theatrical version, but Lambert kills it stone dead dramatically with his wooden performance, undermining any sense of grandeur, and the portrayal of Giuliano is neither complex nor effectively 'mythic'. The actresses are also terrible, and despite Vidal's involvement, the dialogue is quite poorly written and inferior to Cimino's own scripts.

Em honra do centenário de Mario Puzzo. Sorry Cimino, eu te amo, mas não conseguia tirar da cabeça a obra-prima do Francesco Rosi enquanto assistia essa versão ultra-romanceada, ou seja, nada de Hollywood pra nós. Plus: Segundo filme editado pela grande Françoise Bonnot que vejo no dia. Director's Cut BlurayRip no MakingOff.

More interested in coloring the exteriors of this story than in truly delineating the character at the center of it. Yet Cimino had a great flair for crowd scenes and the land and was an operatic widescreen stylist even in narrow spaces - so much so that the visual texture alone carries the meaning of this movie. The director's cut is his best film, but I still wish it was truly Italian, and coherent.

Michael Cimino #2

46.500

Awful storytelling, which I'm gonna go ahead and blame on the editing. It feels like a random midseason episode of TV show you've never seen before. Lots of unintroduced characters and events. Also, apparently Cimino casts all the female roles in his movies based 100% on looks. That the wondrous talent of Meryl Streep made its way into The Deer Hunter must have been merely incidental.

This is a brilliant lesson of 'how to fuck up a great book, a great story, with a bad movie and a horrible actor'. I wonder what Mario Puzo thought of this...

Epic movie

Forgettable.