Revenge (1990)

Just after the release of Man On Fire, I dug out an old Tony Scott movie called Revenge, released on DVD in both theatrical and director’s cuts. It makes a very interesting companion piece to the later movie, treating a similar story as one of revenge rather than redemption.

Kevin Costner stars as a fighter pilot who has an affair with Madeleine Stowe (unfortunately married to rich Mexican gangster Anthony Quinn), setting up a series of violent incidents. Although the movie is coated in Scott’s trademark style of the time (this was just after Top Gun), and the first half is more or less a standard romantic melodrama, it’s notable for an amazingly downbeat and serious second half which demonstrates the pointlessness and emptiness of revenge as a motive. Fine performances from the leads and from a great supporting cast, including Miguel Ferrer, Tomas Milian and John Leguizamo.

Rating:
[imdb]0100485[/imdb]

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