An artist relocates to the Hudson Valley and begins to suspect that her
marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals her new home's
history.
This TV thriller would have turned out much better concentrating on the toxic marriage, but the makers decided to pin on a silly, superfluous supernatural tale on top of it.
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Deliberately sleazy, but engrossing gangster saga (clearly an Oliver Stone script!) with no redeeming character in sight with screechingly over-the-top performances by Pacino and Pfeiffer, a gawdawful 80s soundtrack (which was already dated at the time of its release) and lots of explicit violence.
Halliwell (no star): "Absurdly brutalized remake, with detailed violence and a superabundance of foul language; the film seems to want to make a political statement."
Maltin*1/2: "...but this film wallows in excess and unpleasantness for nearly three hours, and offers no insights except that crime doesn't pay. At least the 1932 movie moved. Even so, this has become a pop-culture phenomenon, with Pacino's Montana an underdog hero!"
