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Revenge

5.6

6,245

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Original title

Revenge

Year

1990

Running time

120 min.

Country

United States

Director

Tony Scott

Screenwriter

Jim Harrison, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin. Novel: Jim Harrison

Cast

Music

Jack Nitzsche

Cinematography

Jeffrey L. Kimball

Producer

New World Pictures, Rastar Productions, Estudios Churubusco. Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Genre

Drama. Romance. Thriller | Crime. Friendship. Revenge

Movie Groups

Jim Harrison Adaptations

Synopsis

Kevin Costner plays an ex-pilot who visits the posh Mexican estate of an old associate (Anthony Quinn) "Tibey" Mendes, for a bit of R & R. Tibey has turned into a very powerful Godfather type who rules his world and those who touch it. Costner can't help but notice his old friend's incredibly beautiful young wife (Madeleine Stowe) and before long they're involved in some sizzling hoochie-coo at the risk of being discovered by Mendes. Mendes eventually catches on and exacts a painful and cruel punishment on the reclusive lovers caught in their lustful liaison. Costner vows a pay-back and the last part of the movie involves his attempt to achieve it.

Critics' reviews

"Scott manages the shift from tremulous romance to violent retribution very well, but his efficient handling of some surprisingly tough action scenes is compromised by a surfeit of pop promo clichés"

Time Out
has a romantic sweep and elemental power that ultimately transcend its flaws."

Variety Staff: Variety
"It achieved a cult following for its uncompromising brutality, but it never really earned the critical or financial success many thought it deserved"

IGN
"'Revenge' plays like a showdown between its style and its story. It combines the slick, high-tension filmmaking fashion of today with the values and sexual stereotyping of yesterday. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"The plot for Revenge, based on Jim Harrison’s 1978 novella, seems ideal for a great galvanizing pulp thriller, but the movie bogs down in melodramatic murk."

Peter Rainer: Los Angeles Times
"It's corny, cussed and carnal."

Johanna Steinmetz: Chicago Tribune
"A flaccid movie version of Jim Harrison's slightly less flaccid 1979 novella"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"A brutal and brutally stupid thriller about brutal and brutally stupid people"

The Globe and Mail

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Revenge

1990

Tony Scott

5.6

(6,245)