Robert De Niro and John Travolta together for the first time in a one on one combat drama. How could it lose ? Oh, dear, but it does. Travolta is a Serbian veteran and De Niro an American colonel who was charged with the responsibility of executing Travolta's character. But Travolta survives and after the war he is hell bent on revenge, searches for and finds De Niro who has become a recluse living simply in the wilderness. It sounds great, but an over pretentious screenplay and too much mumbling dialogue ruin what could have been something special. De Niro, given what he had to work with, does a great job of underplaying the role. Travolta as the Serbian vet ( looking strange with an odd shaped beard ) seeking revenge just didn't convince me. But don't take my word for this. You may like it. There is some great cinematography and enough action to break up the sometimes monotonous dialogue. But for me it only gets a 2 for effort out of 5.
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this could be interesting...
De Niro helps produce musical featuring Queen songs
By MATT WOLF
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) -- Robert De Niro, a man of few words, met the media to sing the praises of a new West End musical scored to the music of the rock group Queen.... -
Well I saw the movie at the midnight session. We all had to endure 15min of ads and trailers before the main event. Ok I will start with the negatives first and get them out of the way. The opening to the movie was, I thought a make or break for this film. Again we are treated to lush special effects... -
"Revenge"
In my never ending quest to find good stuff to watch in my spare time and being an absolute hater of broadcast TV with their endless commercial interruptions, I search and try content that I would never have given a second thought to a few years ago. Desperate...23 June 2015, 07:50 Tuesday -
I guess my hopes were too high. They obviously were shooting for a Conan type story but fell very short of the mark. The soundtrack was this in your face heavy metal mix and then sometimes a Rocky Jazz Orchestra thing and was sooooo out of place in the context of the movie. The opening sets the tone... -
recently shelled out big bucks for an htm2d center along with 803d's and to be honest really not impressed with the dialogue at all....running them with marantz av and mm 8003's -- i have a pioneer blu ray bdp-o9fd and thought i would hear crystal clear dialogue with this stuff.... it has been a huge...