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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.95 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 29 April, 1988 DVD Release : 25 August, 1998 |
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Sunset description Blake Edwards directed this homage to both the Old West and the silent era in filmmaking that undeservedly received indifferent reviews and did little business. James Garner is perfectly cast as Wyatt Earp who, his lawman days behind him, is brought to Hollywood in the waning days of silent movies to serve as a consultant on a movie about his life. The ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Big disappointment |
| Comedy/mystery/western based on the fictional pairing of old west lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) and movie star Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) in 1929 Hollywood. Producer, and ex-silent film comedian Alfie Alperin (Malcolm McDowell) convinces Mix to star in a film biography of Earp, and Earp is hired on as a technical advisor. Soon, however, Alperin is revealed to be less of a benevolent studio head than his reputation would lead one to believe, and Mix and Earp find themselves dangerously involved in a burgeoning murder mystery.
Despite its less than sterling rep I was looking forward to watching SUNSET (1988). It reteams Garner with director Blake Edward, with whom he'd collaborated on the wonderful Victor/Victoria' in 1982. And it has Garner reprising a role he'd played in 1967's The Hour of the Gun.' I have to admit I'm not much of a fan of Willis, but he doesn't normally drag down a movie. Willis doesn't hurt this movie, either, but neither the good chemistry he has with Garner, nor Garner's charm, can breathe much life into it, either. Maybe life' is the wrong word. Although this is billed as a comedy, there's not a whole lot to laugh at. McDowell plays a psychopath who gets off on intimidating everyone and especially seems to enjoy beating up women. It's hard to warm up to a comedy with this type of physical violence in it, unless it's Inspector Clouseau engaging in a slapstick fight with his Asian valet. If you have a man beating up a bunch of frail women in a movie I'm probably not going to like it. Here the violence just seems mean, and left a real sour taste in my mouth. If you stick with this movie through the final act you'll discover the murder mystery was a bit of a cheat, too. Mysteries are ALWAYS easy to solve when someone leaves a Letter that pretty much tells you who did what when. As far as I'm concerned Garner has always been an underrated actor, and he does dominate SUNSET, but even Garner's charm can only carry a movie so far. Willis is likeable, Marial Hemingway appropriately tough/vulnerable as the cathouse proprietress with a secret. Even McDowell is good, even though his character is too realistically depraved for this movie. In fact, the violence embodied and practiced by McDowell's character effectively washes away whatever rosy glow Garner and Willis try to create. If you can overlook or aren't bothered by the nasty stuff SUNSET might work better for you than it did for me. I thought it was a disappointing misfire, and don't recommend it. |
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