Assassination of Trotsky
by Joseph Losey
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Actor: Alain Delon, Enrico Maria Salerno, Richard Burton, Romy Schneider, Valentina CorteseDirector: Joseph Losey
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Release Date: 1994-09-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Studio: Republic Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of Assassination of Trotsky
Movie Review: if stalin had watched this he would have retired to georgia
Summary: 1 Stars
joseph losey directed richard burton in this bizarre apologia for one of the 20th centurys biggest losers: a man who manages to be held in contempt by both the left and the right. it would be acceptable if anything about the movie were not the height of amateurishness, but thats not the case. trotsky lived with my great grandparents family in new york in the years before the russian revolution; if he was as obnoxious a boarder as this is a film, i hope they overcharged him for the rent!Movie Review: Assasssinate the Director of this Movie
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a very disappointingly boring movie, lethargically acted in slow motion (despite the stellar cast), with a poor script and no insight into the historical era or the psychology of the potentially fascinating character(s) involved.Movie Review: Beware of this particular tape
Summary: 3 Stars
Although other reviewers haven't mentioned it, every VHS version of this film that I have rented has mistakenly switched two of the film reels so that the narrative chronology is out of sequence. Otherwise, this is an interesting Brechtian study of Trotsky and Jacson in which Burton and Delon are as much playing themselves as their ostensible characters. As one critic put it at the time, "Burton playing Churchill, Burton playing Trotsky; what's the difference?" The non-psychologizing alienation effect is deliberate.Movie Review: A bombastic (but fun) turkey
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie has become something of a camp classic, and another in the long, numbing line of perfectly dreadful movies made by Richard Burton. Burton is ridiculously miscast in the role of Trotsky. Not only is he physically wrong for the part (too fat, bloated and drunk), his attempts at interpreting Trotsky's character are ludicrous and extraordinarily pitiful. The make-up is another irritating element: the pathetic stick-on goatee Burton wears literally comes close to falling off in several scenes, which brings some much-needed hilarity to the leaden script. Watch when Burton screams various lines as the goatee comes dangerously close to falling off onto his chin. Hilarious stuff!Another ridiculous scene is the climatic assassination, where the viewer urgently roots for Burton to die an agonizing death. Why? Because he has just put us, the collective viewers, in a catatonic state for the past 2 hours, sitting through this bloated, bombastic turkey of a film. This is a wretchedly dreadful movie, but hilarious in parts.
Movie Review: Ignore Ignorant Diatribes
Summary: 3 Stars
The film is a psychological study of Trotsky's murderer, Mercader. I just watched the film and noticed nothing of Burton's goatee coming loose, as alleged by another reviewer. It's a little hard to get beyond Trotsky, the Russian, speaking with a U.K. accent, but that dissipates with time. The film is slightly dated in 1970s-era hip cinematic technique (freeze frame, panning to close up, etc.). But so what? It is not a superb film, but it is not catastrophic.
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