Betrayed (1988) [VHS]

Betrayed (1988) [VHS]
by Costa-Gavras

Betrayed (1988) [VHS]

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Actor: Betsy Blair, Debra Winger, John Heard, John Mahoney, Tom Berenger
Director: Costa-Gavras
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 127 minutes
Release Date: 1997-01-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

VHS Movie Reviews of Betrayed (1988) [VHS]

Movie Review: Fabulous and Gripping Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie made me fall in love with Berenger's character, only to be as horrified and overwhelmed as Winger's character was in the movie. The paradox of Simmons' wholesome and loving role as family man is hard-to-take in comparison with his white supremist activities to which we are later introduced. I found myself desperately hoping for a happy ending which never arrived.

Movie Review: Review of Purchase of "Betrayed"
Summary: 5 Stars

It is a good movie although I wish it had less foul language.

It is a good depiction of rightwing white supremacist groups. It puts a human face on them.

I think the acting is excellent.

Movie Review: Eszterhas wrote himself into a corner with this one
Summary: 2 Stars

An FBI agent (Debra Winger) on her first undercover assignment finds herself falling in love with the man whom she has been assigned to watch (Tom Berenger), a man suspected of being a white supremacist and a murderer.

Wow, this film is bad, but bad in a highly entertaining way. Written by Joe Eszterhas, the same writer who gave the film-going public such "classics" as "Jade" and "Showgirls", this film is overly-long, preachy and defies logic at every turn. Yes, of course a man would take his new girlfriend along on a murderous man-hunt after they've just met and then take her on vacation to a KKK camp. Isn't that normal? Actually, it wasn't the lapses in credibility that bothered me with this film. It was when he finally started to make sense that Eszterhas lost me. By essentially concluding that the problem of white supremacists is too big to ever completely stamp out, Eszterhas wrote himself into a corner, forcing the film to have a very weak and unsatisfying ending. In this case, Eszterhas should have paid heed to the vast number of war films that are out there. It might not be possible to show the winning of the war in a single movie, but if you show the winning of a single battle (which arguably he does, but not really), then people will go home happy.

Movie Review: Are You People Kidding?
Summary: 2 Stars

This is not a 5 star film. And I have to agree with Acute Observer in finding this not realistic or believable in many aspects. As flawed as our government is I highly doubt that the FBI would allow a club that hunts young black men to continue on while they look for more evidence. And I found it impossible to believe that Debra Winger's character could continue to love Berenger after discovering that he was a racist murderer. This film is a guilty pleasure- albeit a wierd one. It plays more like a tv movie than a brilliant feature film. It is extremely dated and is written for a junior high or high school level of intellect.

Movie Review: Well Made Movie but an Undeserved Assault on Middle America
Summary: 3 Stars

The movie is well made, well acted with good pacing. One problem....am I the only one here who has noticed this trend out of Hollywood that would lead us to believe that there are no normal people out there? It has been an ongoing assault by the Hollywood left to make us believe that everyone is as narcissistic and dysfunctional as themselves and those who are being pandered to here......genuinely screwed up people who try and take comfort in the myth that they are normal because EVERYONE is just as bad........which is not the case.

We have the cliche ex-marine in middle America...church goer, lives with mom and her apple pies, goes to the fair, works the farm.....but at night he secretly hates black people and the government. Give me a friggin break.....these people are the exception....not the rule.

Maybe I'll make a movie about how all those "classy" people in Marin County, Cambridge, Vermont and Connecticut smile when they hear about another aborted baby or another soldier killed in combat because they think it is a little victory in their quest to make everyone as smart as they are......bet I'd be closer to the truth than this film.

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