The Sicilian

The Sicilian

1987
Drama, Crime
1h 55m
Giuliano robs from the rich conservative landowners to give to the poor, serf-like peasants, who in turn hail him as their savior. As his popularity grows, so does his ego, and he eventually thinks he is above the power of his backer, Mafia Don Masino Croce. The Don, in turn, sets out to kill the upstart by convincing his cousin and closest advisor Gaspare to assassinate him. (imdb)
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The Sicilian

1987
Drama, Crime
1h 55m
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
4th
Probably the worst adaptation of a Mario Puzo novel. The ending is given away in the first minutes of the movie. Christopherr Lambert is another one of those B movie actors that should clue you in that the movie is going to be sub-par (Highlander excluded). I actually saw this movie in the theater when it came out, with my Mom and Dad. My Mom fell asleap! Neither my Dad or I could make heads or tails of it. Recent rewatching did not improve my opinion.
Rated 17 Jun 2008
29
2nd
The script makes no sense at all. You have a story that takes place in a turbulent violence-filled mob-ruled Sicily, but it's stylistically closer to Gone with the Wind if anything. It's like a pre-teen girl made a movie about a mafiosi as a school project, but had her rich father's pay for a professional editor to touch it up. This shouldn't be listed on imdb.
Rated 23 Feb 2007
35
13th
Forgettable.
Rated 23 Oct 2008
100
93rd
Epic movie
Rated 28 Oct 2008
50
9th
This is a brilliant lesson of 'how to fuck up a great book, a great story, with a bad movie and a horrible actor'. I wonder what Mario Puzo thought of this...
Rated 03 Apr 2012
40
22nd
Awful storytelling, which I'm gonna go ahead and blame on the editing. It feels like a random midseason episode of TV show you've never seen before. Lots of unintroduced characters and events. Also, apparently Cimino casts all the female roles in his movies based 100% on looks. That the wondrous talent of Meryl Streep made its way into The Deer Hunter must have been merely incidental.
Rated 22 Apr 2012
47
13th
46.500
Rated 02 Jan 2015
50
0th
Michael Cimino #2
Rated 04 Jul 2016
67
67th
More interested in coloring the exteriors of this story than in truly delineating the character at the center of it. Yet Cimino had a great flair for crowd scenes and the land and was an operatic widescreen stylist even in narrow spaces - so much so that the visual texture alone carries the meaning of this movie. The director's cut is his best film, but I still wish it was truly Italian, and coherent.
Rated 16 Oct 2020
72
49th
Em honra do centenário de Mario Puzzo. Sorry Cimino, eu te amo, mas não conseguia tirar da cabeça a obra-prima do Francesco Rosi enquanto assistia essa versão ultra-romanceada, ou seja, nada de Hollywood pra nós. Plus: Segundo filme editado pela grande Françoise Bonnot que vejo no dia. Director's Cut BlurayRip no MakingOff.
Rated 12 Nov 2022
50
26th
(Director's cut): Cimino's creative decline really began here with this misguided Puzo adaptation. His cut is longer and more coherent than the butchered theatrical version, but Lambert kills it stone dead dramatically with his wooden performance, undermining any sense of grandeur, and the portrayal of Giuliano is neither complex nor effectively 'mythic'. The actresses are also terrible, and despite Vidal's involvement, the dialogue is quite poorly written and inferior to Cimino's own scripts.
Rated 12 Mar 2023
9
3rd
Bad in the worst way, just mundane and frustrating - the script is both totally forgettable and almost nonsensical. How the hell did Christopher Lambert even get close to the career he's had?

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