Another disappointment

Tashtago

I agree with others here who say the film is rather conventional in it's treatment of the novel. The consul's wife is very clearly a hallucination in the book but here this along with the consul's general mental state are presented too objectively and this makes a lot of the film ring false. A good start and of course excellent performances by Finney and Bisette but then the movie blacks out. I'm a great fan of John Huston I consider at least four of his films to be among the greatest ever (Moby Dick, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, and Moulin Rouge ) but I believe he didn't make another good film after Night of the Iguana. Although I haven't seen Man Who Would be King. Under the Volcano is another late career disappointment.

score 6/10

Tashtago 25 January 2008

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1807237/