No one much remembers the director Dick Richards, but he had a bit of a vogue in the 1970s with a successful adaptation of Farewell My Lovely. He parlayed that success into a big budget French Foreign Legion film, which performed disappointingly at the box office.
It is a long movie and not that engaging, despite Gene Hackman's fine work as a driven alcoholic officer, Terence Hill not bad as a rogue-ish soldier, and a support cast that includes Catherine Deneuve and Max Von Sydow. It's a bit PC - there are a lot of comments about how unfair French colonialism is - it looks stunning, with dunes and uniforms, but lacks excitement.
No comments:
Post a Comment