Inbetween the mega-hits that were Days of Thunder and Beverly Hills Cop II, director Tony Scott took on a dream project called Revenge. It's a slight tale of a retired jet pilot (Kevin Costner) who goes to visit his mexican gangster friend (Anthony Quinn)...and ends up screwing his wife (the babelicious Madeline Stowe). Quinn gets angry and beats up Costner and imprisons Stowe. Costner recovers, and beats up Quinn's men while looking for Stowe.
Thats about it really. It's Scott, so it's all very pretty with sunsets and smoke machines on every corner. But it takes an age for anything to happen, and when it does, it's done with unnecesary slow motion effects and lackluster editing. Plus everybody's rather unpleasent and unlikable. Non of the main characters are innocent so, while you kind of hope true love finds its course, you are really at peace with the movie if true love doesn't succeed.
It doesn't.
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Mmmm...Madeline Stowe
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