Sunday, October 17, 2021

Movie review - "Quintet" (1979) *1/2

 This begins with a stunning shot of two figures in a snowy landscape but then goes inside to some very unconvincing sets that kept reminding me of Guns on Ice Planet Zero the two part ep of 1978's Battlestar Galactica.

Paul Newman lookis for revenge on the person who killed his pregnant girlfriend - a scene we actually see 30 minutes on. Maybe it would've been better had that been all of screen. 

Ah, that's not the issue. The issue it's confusing. There's this game. Someone is killing the others. Newman is the hero. People get knocked off one by one. Vittorio Gassman is in it. And Fernando Rey. And Bibi Andersson.

No one looks comfortable.

Maybe if this had been contemporary it might've worked?

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