The central pair's shattering, once-in-a-lifetime passion cries out for more urgency and emotional power.
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05/26/08
Havana (1990)
17 %
Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 4 Rotten:19 Average Rating: 3.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins
Synopsis: Director Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford join forces to tell the story of high-rolling gambler Jack Weil. Hoping to be pushed to the edge in a place ripe for action, Weil heads to Havana at Christmastime, 1958. Cuba is experiencing prerevolutionary rumblings, and he has a theory that... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raul Julia, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian
Director: Sydney Pollack
Screenwriter: Judith Rascoe, David Rayfiel
Producer: Sydney Pollack, Richard Roth
Screenwriter: Judith Rascoe, David Rayfiel
Producer: Sydney Pollack, Richard Roth
Reviews
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Handsomely produced, with a typically mesmerizing performance by Redford, alas this fails to exploit its intriguing political background and ends up being more of a routine and ineffective romance.
05/26/08
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Elaborate visual mounting and iconographic placement of the romantic leads are the movie's preoccupation, with the overthrow of Batista merely providing local color.
05/26/08
Unfortunately, against that impressive backdrop, Pollack mounts a film that is lifeless and slow-moving, offering neither a compelling love story nor a tense tale of a city in turmoil.
05/26/08
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Director Sydney Pollack and star Robert Redford have lost their normally dependable quality touch as they slog through a notably uncompelling $45 million-plus tale of a gringo caught up in the Cuban revolution.
05/26/08
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The glittering decadence of this culture on the verge of collapse is in fact the film's most fascinating aspect, and Mr. Pollack has re-created it extravagantly.
05/20/03
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