LatentSophism
Joined Jun 2020
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The story is terrible. I don't personally think it's best shot. But the lead actors Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Adolfo Celi and Woody Strode just make it.
The story is poor, by the end I didn't really care or fully understand - it's paper thin at best.
But as I say there's something about the cast that makes the film - Mario Adorf plays a strangely sympathetic, almost lovable pimp. Henry Silva is as dead eyed as ever. Woody Strode is a touch wooden (I have seen him act well, maybe language issues were the problem). And not forgetting Adolfo Celi who plays the mob boss well.
I wouldn't rush out to see this but I don't think I wasted 80mins.
The story is poor, by the end I didn't really care or fully understand - it's paper thin at best.
But as I say there's something about the cast that makes the film - Mario Adorf plays a strangely sympathetic, almost lovable pimp. Henry Silva is as dead eyed as ever. Woody Strode is a touch wooden (I have seen him act well, maybe language issues were the problem). And not forgetting Adolfo Celi who plays the mob boss well.
I wouldn't rush out to see this but I don't think I wasted 80mins.
The Hunting Party is a total slog. Oliver Reed looks like he regrets signing up but is too stubborn to leave, and Gene Hackman is basically doing a half-baked Popeye Doyle in cowboy boots. The film throws in loads of grim, nasty violence, but it's got no weight - just misery for the sake of it.
It wants to be a Spaghetti Western but lands in that tired, late-period knockoff zone where everything's just bleak and plodding. Tomas Milian would've been miles better as Frank - at least he had some charm. Don Medford didn't have much to work with, but he still managed to do nothing with it. A waste of two great actors, and a waste of time.
It wants to be a Spaghetti Western but lands in that tired, late-period knockoff zone where everything's just bleak and plodding. Tomas Milian would've been miles better as Frank - at least he had some charm. Don Medford didn't have much to work with, but he still managed to do nothing with it. A waste of two great actors, and a waste of time.
