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Desperate Hours [DVD] [1990] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
 
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Desperate Hours [DVD] [1990] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Mickey Rourke
3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Lindsay Crouse, Kelly Lynch
  • Directors: Michael Cimino
  • Writers: Joseph Hayes, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
  • Producers: Michael Cimino, Dino De Laurentiis, Martha De Laurentiis, Mel Dellar
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language English, French
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 16 April 2002
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005V9HX
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 48,977 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Cimino's worst movie, 14 Dec 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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With superb performances from Frederic March, Humphrey Bogart and Arthur Kennedy, a taut script and on the money direction from William Wyler, The Desperate Hours is one of the great thrillers of all time. Unfortunately, this is Desperate Hours, one of the worst films of the nineties, or any other decade for that matter.

The first 15 minutes are great: tight, controlled and fairly convincing, with a surprisingly on-form Mickey Rourke. It doesn't last. As soon as he and his fellow unstable escaped murderers hide out in the home of Anthony Hopkins and Mimi Rogers' dysfunctional family it goes down the toilet faster than bleach. Logic is quickly abandoned, there are some dazzlingly obvious continuity errors and before long you feel almost as much a hostage as the truly obnoxious family themselves.

Mickey Rourke is initially very good, but the performance is not properly thought through and falls to pieces around the halfway mark. Hopkins, the most ridiculous Vietnam vet the screen has yet produced, is just appalling, Crouse bullish and one note while Kelly Lynch displays her breasts at every available opportunity - even in the opening jailbreak! - and to hell with logic or necessity.

With Desperate Hours, Michael Cimino finally made a film as bad as Heaven's Gate was supposed to be (but wasn't). Actually make that two, if you include The Sicilian. On the plus side, David Mansfield's score is very good indeed. Nothing else is. Avoid.
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5.0 out of 5 stars first class movie in all aspects, 16 April 2009
By M. Joussef "m.joussef" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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I can not understand the other reviewer giving this very good movie one star!; on what basis??? The script and direction is immaculate. The acting is simply mesmerising. the film as a whole is very gripping. I just loved it from first viewing and have been watching it many times with same interest every time I watch it. I watch movies a lot, and know how to rate a good movie from a bad movie and I difinately judge this movie as one of the best and most thrilling and interesting.
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