Desperate Hours | | Cast : | Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins | | Director : | Michael Cimino | | Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 05, 1990 | | DVD Released Date : | November 02, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | Thriller | Content
 | I would agree with several other reviewers that this is a moving and captivating thriller! In the rare case that home invasions occur, they are absolutely frightening. Rourke is one of the best actors playing a slimy thug. He is very believable and Anthony Hopkins is as usual, brilliant. Michael Bosworth is a seasoned sociopath (Mickey Rourke), and Hopkins provides a great good vs. evil contrast in this one. Probably not for children under 16. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 29, 2005 | | Summary | Pointless film! | Content
| When you decide to adapt a classic film you should take warning several aspects: Has the story aged? How has the suspense's concept altered for the new audiences?
We know about the professed sympathy of Cimino for Rourke. We saw him in The year of the Dragon. And somehow Mickey doesn't look credible as the distorted mind criminal. He is too rational and cold to represent that hard character. The illumination is another serious problem. The whole drama looks extremely theatrical: Anthony Hopkins looks uncomfortable with the role and Mimi Rogers is inexpressive. Elias Koteas is simply out of context and perhaps that's why the insipid dialogue. Maybe David Morse shows certain wild tendency. There is a rigidity in the dialogue. Obviously you assist to the common places: the internal disagreements in the policy procedure. Lindsay Cruise is assertive in this role. But the initial sequence of the getaway is terrific. It looks too artificial and the viewer' adrenaline simply is not emanated. The sumptuous photography saves the film of the collapse. The music didn't help to maintain the suspense. It is not easy to readapt a classic film of the fifties. Something similar happened with Cape fear `s remake.
The question might be around the new approach of the suspense and the new technologies. Bogart looked extremely old for the role and Rourke looked too elegant to be a convincing ex con.
Good entertainment for teenagers in a pop corn rainy weekend.
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| Rating | | | Date | August 01, 2004 | | Summary | The movie is good I think... | Content
| Don't understand why so many critics have given this movie only 1 star? It's not a pointless movie at all I think, the acting is brilliant, and it contains a beautiful, gripping scene where the "villain" played by David Morse is shot in some lake, very poetic done and in contrast the the rest of the set "locked" inside the house of the hostages. The picture-quality, even on DVD and for its' time, is really bad. Other than that it is an entertaining movie worth a peek... |
| Rating | | | Date | November 04, 2003 | | Summary | It's a GREAT film ! | Content
| Despite some of the glib, cute, reviews here, the cast is strong, the story is strong, the direction is strong. For the money, it's a purchase you won't regret. The whole point of the film, as any film, is to entertain. This effort delivers what it promises...a taut, tense drama, that entertains. No one liked this film because Hollywood NEVER forgives Michael Cimino, and they successfully "buried" him with this film, and the public bought it, as these reviews here show. It's our loss, but at least we have this DVD. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 18, 2003 | | Summary | Don't know why so many don't like it? | Content
| I just finally watched this whole movie. I thought it was well done. I don't understand why so many bad reviews. I guess it is that I am not that critical of movies, and I don't over analyze things. I enjoyed Anthony Hopkins in this role. I thought Mickey Rouke was okay. I have never been a big fan though. I would recommend it. But, I do agree the FBI leader played by Lindsey Cruise was very annoying. |
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