Mr_Sophistication_Uk
Joined Sep 2019
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Well-acted, spot-on for the period and not really all that interesting drama, which stars Jessica Lange as an ultra-neurotic army housewife and Tommy Lee Jones as her long-suffering nuclear technician husband.
There are arguments, cover-ups and affairs aplenty in this 60's-set film, but none of it particularly intrigued me or got my attention. The second half, when stuff actually starts happening, is arguably better than the meandering first, but neither is worthy of the talent on display here.
My main takeaway was that Lange can do crazy without the charisma to back it up, Jones seems to be typecast as a military or lawman in everything I've seen him in and to start a playlist featuring some of the biggest hits of the decade.
Now, where could I have got that idea from now...? 5/10.
There are arguments, cover-ups and affairs aplenty in this 60's-set film, but none of it particularly intrigued me or got my attention. The second half, when stuff actually starts happening, is arguably better than the meandering first, but neither is worthy of the talent on display here.
My main takeaway was that Lange can do crazy without the charisma to back it up, Jones seems to be typecast as a military or lawman in everything I've seen him in and to start a playlist featuring some of the biggest hits of the decade.
Now, where could I have got that idea from now...? 5/10.
George C Scott is one of the best actors around, but even he can't save this dullish diatride against hospitals in 1970s America from utter mediocrity.
It's very easy to agree with the points its making against the lack of patient care and the endless bureaucracy of the system, but combine that with a bizarre plot of a mental patient killing doctors and an 'ick' relationship between Scott and a much-younger-what-is-she-doing-there Diana Rigg, and the attempted message its trying to convey gets somnewhat lost in the resulting jumble.
So no, it's no 'Network'... as evidenced by the fact this is largely forgotten years later. And I intend, as far as my brain is concerned, to give it a similar fate. 5/10.
It's very easy to agree with the points its making against the lack of patient care and the endless bureaucracy of the system, but combine that with a bizarre plot of a mental patient killing doctors and an 'ick' relationship between Scott and a much-younger-what-is-she-doing-there Diana Rigg, and the attempted message its trying to convey gets somnewhat lost in the resulting jumble.
So no, it's no 'Network'... as evidenced by the fact this is largely forgotten years later. And I intend, as far as my brain is concerned, to give it a similar fate. 5/10.