Friday, March 12, 2004

Worst movie ever made???

My wife and I like to dance--especially the tango. So we naturally have an interest in films featuring tango dancing whenever one comes out. Carlos Saura's Argentine-Spanish film with English subtitles, Tango, is an excellent film, featuring some of the most magnificent tango dancing you will ever see, along with Lalo Shifrin's lush musical score. Although the plot is little more than a pretext for featuring tango dancing, it works well enough. (Review) Neither of us have yet seen Sally Potter's film, The Tango Lesson, about which we've heard very little, though some positive remarks. But the other day, we saw Rovert Duvall's Assassination Tango, which, despite Duvall's reputation, was appalling. While the dancing was beautiful, there was very little of it, and the plot's pretense of being more than a pretext for the dancing was laughable. Despite the respect we have had for Duvall in the past, this film is an embarrassment, not only to his screenwriting abilities, which suffer terribly in this film, but also to his ability as a director and--in this very sad instance--even as an actor. The film is a disaster. For a modestly charitable review, see: Planet Sick Boy.

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