Vento di Sicilia

I can not believe i wasted my weekend night watching this movie. I wish l could give this movie a negative 100 star rating. The end of the movie sucks. The acting was terrible. I like Danny Glover as an actor but not in this movie. I like a good Mafia movie but not this one. Please don't waste your time watching this. It was a waste of flim and time. The dumbest movie I have ever saw. I am not sure what else to tell you about this movie. The ending was horrible and didn't make any sense. I don't have what else to tell you about this movie. I don't know what else to tell y'all. Go find another movie.

Talky and boring Italian production about a criminal low life who's lost his memory, spilling the beans to a priest, Danny Glover, on a train, complete with flashbacks and other dull nonsense. Besides Glover, who probably shot his scenes on the train in one day, the film boasts name stars in small roles from Michael "Reservoir Dogs" Madsen, Steven "Scarface" Bauer, and John "The Deer Hunter" Savage. With than many of decent actors, you'd think this production might be halfway decent, but you'd be mistaken. No action and no interesting characters or storyline. Madsen seems to be the only one who's having fun and realizes that he's trapped in a terrible movie. I don't think he took off his sunglasses once the entire film and I don't blame him.

Outside of the Lethal Weapon series, Danny Glover really seems to have very little range in his ability to play a believable character. And even then, it would seem that he was just in the right place at the right time to play opposite of Mel Gibson. Being a likable guy and being a good or great actor are two different things. As terrible as the writing is, and the direction, actors in this so called movie are not able to make this a believable story. Even Michael Madsen, who is usually adept at this kind of role, can't pull it off, or rescue the screwy twisted plot and story-line. Enter Cassandra Gava, a very beautiful woman, isn't enough distraction to help us get through a movie that should have been scrapped before it was made. I would not have paid the box office price for this film, and I think I over-paid by renting it.

In a plot that doesn't make sense, using the standard jumping from the present to the past to explain, and using music that gives the movie an edge, the viewer is left wondering why they just wasted an hour and twenty minutes of their life and, more importantly, why Danny Glover accepted this this role. The movie is rife with "build-ups" that lead to nothing, relationships that lead nowhere, and confusion galore. But the most confusion thing about the whole movie, like chalked up to "artistic freedom", is when two people have a conversation. Typically, one is talking in Italian while one is talking in English, with no translators. Why don't you just talk in one language? Clearly you understand both languages. Did the director just have a friend who did subtitles for movies that needed a job? About the only good thing about the movie is the fairly realistic gun firing.

I think it's a really interesting film, the script has some holes ... but on the whole it becomes interesting.I loved the small roles, then tells a harsh reality. The scene of the train with Danny glover is very strong ,... train travel you see that is fake...but it is an independent movie... Location of Sicily are fantastic. Shootings are very crude, photography is quite simple, editing quite insistent. the soundtrack, I do not really like , I think there was a true artist. Is a long time since I saw a movie with lots of close-ups, this made me pleasure. I must say that there are some very nice shots. I believe that with more money might be a good movie.