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Rating:  - Awesome
Well made, true story film. Action, drama, heartstrings, suspense and more. Amazingly done!
Rating:  - Emerald Forest Illustration for La Ciudad de las Bestias
As a teacher of a University in High School course, I was amazed at the ability to use the Emerald Forest as illustration for the story La Ciudad de las Bestias, by Isabel Allende. The customs, living conditions and beliefs of indigenous people of the Amazon (the setting of her story), are helpful in understanding the culture alluded to in the novel. The only problem for use in certain venues might be that it is rated R. The natural magazine/channel display of lack of dress of the natives might make showing of the movie prohibitive in some circumstances.
Rating: - A Masterpiece - A Story Well Told...
For YEARS I looked for this movie after seeing it on the big screen. Couldn't find it. Then one year I came across an old rental being sold and bought it. Many years later, I found a bunch of old copies on eBay.
This movie was structured so well that I wanted it in my collection from day 1. I LOVE this movie - and how well the story is crafted. I've told all my friends about it for years.
If you like a well crafted story, a good story, get this one. They don't make them like this often.
Rating: - Lush, mesmerizing action
After watching this film for the past twenty years, I'll admit that I still have not grown tired of it. John Boorman's direction, true-to-the-heart performances, and the vivid photography--capturing the deepest beauty of the Amazon--combine together to make this all-too-real adventure as mesmerizing as it is. Powers Boothe plays a development engineer located in South America, with wife and children in tow, whose 10 year old son, Tommy, is abducted by a tribe of Amazon warriors. Boothe ensues on a 10 year hunt for Tommy, who has now acclimated to a whole new way of life. Wonderful combination of action, adventure, and even elements of drama. Give this quiet, underrated picture a watch.
Rating:  - Pass...
I'm not a harsh movie critic at all. And I love movies from the 80s and early 90s (Medicine Man, Point of no return, Labyrinth) I tend to like a lot of different movies that others don't. But after 45 minutes of watching this one, I had to turn it off. I was bored and thought that watching something else that I know I will like and have seen before would be a better idea. The acting was ridiculous. The cinemetography was mediocre. The main star of the film was the location - not the characters. That's the only enticing aspect of it. There's no legacy or classiness in this film where there should be as the story is compelling, yet its execution was poor. I would love to see this movie re-done, with better quality cast and a waaaaaaaaay better script (some of the actions of the indigenous peoples were completely confusing and not easily understood to their relevance to the story). I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone.
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