directed by: John Huston
written by: Richard Condon (+ book), Janet Roach
starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, William Hickey, Anjelica Huston
comment: 1st January, 2018
Hm, maybe four out of five stars is too much, but considering what a diabolical work Anjelica displays in the tiny space she's confined to, three out of five is too little. And I still have to mention that William Hickey probably also arrived at our planet through a rip in the ceiling of hell.
Given the fact that I don't especially like mafia film, I've enjoyed this one quite a lot. I was most amused by the straightforward story not pretending to be something more than what it really is. Because the make-believe grandeur of The Godfather is one of my long-term cinema pet peeves. If it were not for Pacino, I wouldn't use The Godfather as a temporary bicycle stand for my bike (that's a direct translation of a czech expression and I wonder how confusing it is for the rest of the world). It's interesting that everybody calls Huston (and his film) old and tired, while Coppola gets all the praise for a modern masterpiece. And in my head, it's a bit the other way round, The Godfather seems a lot more worn out, protracted and stuck in a time long long gone.
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