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Return From The River Kwai [DVD] [1988]
 
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Return From The River Kwai [DVD] [1988]

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1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Nick Tate, Timothy Bottoms, George Takei, Edward Fox, Alexander Blaise
  • Directors: Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Writers: Clay Blair Jr., Joan Blair, Paul Mayersberg, Sargon Tamimi
  • Producers: Daniel Unger, Kurt Unger
  • Format: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Odyssey Video
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Feb 2003
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005IBAG
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 39,776 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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4:3 Full Frame
DVD 5
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital Stereo
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Synopsis
This 1989 film--starring Edward Fox, Denholm Elliott, Chris Penn, and others--is a sequel to the war classic THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI. As with the original, the events in the movie are based on a true story.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Return from the River Kwai, 22 Jun 2003
By D. Griffith (Wiltshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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What a disappointment. The original Bridge on the River Kwai may have been fiction - but based in facts of life as a PoW during WW2 Burma/Thailand... An all time classic film. The return may have been in more fact but wooden acting, lacking story and depth throughout. A bore of a film.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing for David Lean to lose sleep over, 28 Nov 2008
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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When it played originally in the UK, Return From the River Kwai carried a legal disclaimer that the film was in no way related to or a sequel to The Bridge On the River Kwai, to which the only response is "No s***, Sherlock." Where Lean had Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins and Sessue Hayakawa, Andrew V. McLaglen has to make do with Edward Fox, Christopher Penn, Denholm Elliott and George Takei, which should tip you off what to expect. It has a good enough true story to tell - no bridge building this time, but the eventful journey of Allied P.O.W.s being sent to Japan as forced labor as the war neared its end - but while bridges and ships are blown up, planes crash and there are hundreds of extras, it all has a perfunctory feel to it and a lack of vision. Sargon Tamimi and Paul Mayersberg's script tends to be surprisingly repetitive too. It's the kind of film where a character says "We're coming into Phnom Penh," followed by a shot of a train passing a sign reading `Phnom Penh, followed by another character saying "We can't stay long in Phnom Penh," just in case anyone missed the fact that they're in Phnom Pen...

While Fawxx reigns in his self-parodic tendencies for once without ever being particularly good, Elliot is especially disastrously miscast as a commando leading local guerrilla forces. Blinking wildly every time he fires a gun, it's like someone hired the local vicar to play Rambo in the village fete. The Japanese characters naturally come off worse. Tatsuta Nakadai's alcoholic commander fares well enough in his few Japanese scenes but his inability to speak English results in him awkwardly delivering many of his lines in clumsy phonetic Ing-leesh, though he's easily outdone by Takei's abysmal pantomime villain performance as his sadistic second in command that's straight out of a bad WW2 propaganda film (as is Lalo Schifrin's heavy-handed score). While it all plays rather better on the small screen than it did on the big one, it's one of those films you really don't need to see. Shot with one eye firmly on the late 80s video market boom and never released in the US in any form, it's no surprise that this DVD ended up being given away free with a UK newspaper.
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