A Perfect World | | Cast : | Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner | | Director : | Clint Eastwood | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 24, 1993 | | DVD Released Date : | February 08, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 30, 2005 | | Summary | The dark side of human nature... | Content
 | I cannot understand why this movie doesn't get more rave reviews, or didn't win any awards. I understand that most people are not high on Kevin Costner, and perhaps Clint could have picked a better leading man, but Costner isn't that bad. You can Clint see getting into the dark side of human nature in this movie like he did in MYSTIC RIVER and MILLION DOLLAR BABY. I like this movie and I would recommend watching it. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 12, 2005 | | Summary | Average | Content
| I saw this film last night. I'm on a streak where I watch every Clint Eastwood movie out there. There is quite some crime scene on this one. However, I don't think I will be recommending this movie to anyone. I really couldn't understand why Costner was as hard on the black family as he was. I may lack knowledge on criminals. I dont recommend this movie to anyone unless you must see every Clint Eastwood film made. I recommend "Absolute Power" instead of "A Perfect World"
Rating - 2.5 Stars |
| Rating | | | Date | June 30, 2005 | | Summary | best eastwood directed film ever | Content
| this is one great movie, as everyone (almost) on this site seems to agree. i read these reviews because i was hoping there might be some reference to the music. there is a scene where kevin costner and the boy are given refuge for the night by a black farmworker. the next day costner sees the victrola and plays a cajun record. i was hoping to find out the name of the song and the original artists.
as to the jehovah's witness issues, i might be somewhat annoyed with the presentation if i were a member, but i must add that nowhere in the movie is it ever expressed that phillip is not allowed to eat cotton candy or ride roller coasters because he is a JW. the only things mentioned that he cannot do are celebrate halloween and christmas (and maybe birthdays - i can't remember.) those other things are forbidden to lots of children not just JW's. i don't think my mother allowed me to eat cotton candy either and i sure couldn't go on a roller coaster until i was taller than the line on the entrance. on the contrary, phillip insists that his mother is a really great mom. (and most kids steal something at one time or another and you would have to be pretty paranoid to think that the writer/director et al are anti-JW because they have the child stealing a halloween costume.
it's a great movie - don't miss it. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 15, 2005 | | Summary | Subtexted in this great Eastwood Flick is... | Content
| ....no one *really knows* what it takes to be a good parent even though we think we do. Costner's bad guy turns out to be the best parent figure in the movie, caring for and becoming a friend to the kid in the Casper outfit, (in spite of the lack of nutrition in mustard sammiches, truly it was the thought that counted) but that was a symptom of how bad his father was to him....for the record, I was all for serious damage done to that brutal black father, but Eastwood made like punishment from Butch(Costner) would be pathologically driven.... and then the questions arise. *How can* a pathologically evil man be a good parent or *can* a pathologiclly evil man be a good parent? In the end, the Buzz kid seems to have learned to love the man who kidnaps him, like he would a parent ....if you however did not want to think too deeply about the characters' raison d'etres, Eastwood serves up an old fashioned road chase movie in the Texas of Kennedy era 1962-63. A charming bad guy in stolen vehicles being chased down the dusty Texas roads by the bumbling good guys handcuffed to the system in my opinion has more entertainment value than half the stuff out there in the movies nowadays. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 06, 2005 | | Summary | This is a very good movie | Content
| I am not a Kevin Costner fan and have found his acting to be mechancial and pretentious. BUT, Eastwood pulls this film together to rank among many of his best works and made me take a different look at Costner's performance. The plain-ness of Costner as a non-discript working man gone down the wrong path is very believable as is his subtle hints at his own lost childhood. The young boy who plays the hostage is fabulous and often times it seems as if in his innocence is actually living this story more than acting. His little tattered halloween costume is a touch of genius in the film and keeps tugging at your heart strings as well as lending a slightly macbre tone to the whole thing. Costner's character constantly tilted back and forth between slightly bad with a good intentions to a bad guy trying to claim a thread of decency and had a good juxtaposition with Eastwood's hard cop with a decent heart. Laura Dern didn't add much to the movie and her role could have been played with a little more intensity by several other peers of hers. BUT, see this movie. I saw this years ago, long before Mystic River, but they both have a similar thread despite Mystic River being much more edgy and an all around better written story. |
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